Published Monday, February 28, 2011 @ 12:34 PM EST
Feb282011
This chart prepared by the Center for American Progress discloses the
greed and hypocrisy of the GOP. They slash safety net programs for
children, the poor, and the unemployed while supplying obscene tax cuts
for the wealthy. Where's the outrage, teabaggers?
Why is a 3% tax increase on the richest "socialism" but a 14% pay cut on
middle class is "doing your part?" -RT @gregwatanabe RT
@gwangung (via Andy Hoover and Beau Boughamer)
Published Thursday, February 24, 2011 @ 8:03 AM EST
Feb242011
Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state,
but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy
whose first name is "King." -Craig Ferguson
Published Wednesday, February 23, 2011 @ 11:47 AM EST
Feb232011
The working classes didn't bring this on. It was the big boys that
thought the financial drunk was going to last forever and overbought,
overmerged and overcapitalized. -Will Rogers (October 25, 1931)
Published Tuesday, February 22, 2011 @ 8:40 AM EST
Feb222011
Riley is the second youngest of the pack, but is, I believe, the oldest soul.
Look in those eyes and tell me there isn't a person in there.
(By the way, I don't believe in reincarnation. But in a previous life, I did.)
I was stunned by the price of dried fruit at the supermarket. "We're in
the organic section," Cindy pointed out. "Ok," I said, "let's see how
much it costs in the toxic section."
A friend posted on Facebook he bought a bison-mushroom meatloaf at Whole
Foods. Ok, this genetic engineering business has officially gone too far.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet. -Fran Lebowitz
Published Thursday, February 17, 2011 @ 12:14 PM EST
Feb172011
When anyone mentions 2001 to them (or Terminator, or Matrix, or Tron,
or...) IBM prefers to bring up the helpful question-answering computer
on Star Trek. C'mon IBM! You just invented SkyNet! Own it! -Ken
Jennings, Jeopardy champion, on IBM's "Watson," the Jeopardy-playing
supercomputer
Bram Stoker (I for one welcome our new computer overlords) -Ken
Jennings' Final Jeopardy answer in the match he and Brad Rutter lost to
IBM's Watson.
Published Tuesday, February 15, 2011 @ 12:27 AM EST
Feb152011
Déjà Vu, who turns 14 today, is the oldest of our sheltie pack and the
undisputed "Queen Mum." She is reserved and dignified- except when she
rolls on her back in the snow and bounces on her front legs at dinner time like a low
rider. I like to thing of her and Lucy
as the canine version of the Banger sisters.
Puppy love is no laughing matter when you're a puppy. -Gamerman,
Amy
"All you need is love?" Yeah? Try payin' the effin' rent with it. -Richards,
Keith
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been
extracted. -Rowland, Helen
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished. -Gabor,
Zsa Zsa
A man in love is like a clipped coupon-it's time to cash in. -West,
Mae
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road
to actual seduction. -Mannes, Marya
All I know of love is that Love is all there is. -Dickinson, Emily
All that matters is love and work. -Freud, Sigmund
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. -Schulz,
Charles M.
And when I say you sucked my brains out, the English translation is that
I am in love with you. -DiFranco, Ani
Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in
it a few times. -Rudner, Rita
Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. -Rowland,
Helen
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion,
enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -Wilde, Oscar
But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is
the most unhappy man of all. -Kierkegaard, Soren
Did you ever notice that "love" spelled backwards is "evil"? Well, not
exactly, but it's still pretty scary. -Unattributed
Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because
she waxed the linoleum- "My God, the floor's immaculate. Lie down, you
hot bitch." -Rivers, Joan
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. -Holiday,
Billie
Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For
tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.) -Parker,
Dorothy
Every love is the love before In a duller dress. -Parker,
Dorothy
Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination
and the other is not yet born. -Gibran, Kahlil
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. -Brooks,
Mel
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming
someone is. -Murdoch, Jean Iris
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask
advice on the rules of madness. -Terence
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity,
freckles and doubt. -Parker, Dorothy
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship- never. -Colton,
Charles Caleb
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as
getting married just because you do. -Gabor, Zsa Zsa
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his
wife. -Johnson, Lyndon B.
Grief is the price we pay for love. -Meyer, Sir Christopher
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a
woman scorned. -Congreve, William
Hold fast to whatever fragments of love are left, for sometimes a mosaic
is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern. -Powell, Dawn
I love you more today than yesterday. Yesterday, you really got on my
nerves.
-(Greeting card)
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must
be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -Bissonette, David
I suppose that when a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for
her, except continue to love her. -Wilde, Oscar
I think most folks that are hooked up are like me, and suspect they hit
the love lottery, but they haven't finished scratching off the ticket
yet. -Andy, Mark
I will show you a love potion without drug or herb, or any witch's
spell; if you wish to be loved, love. -Hecato
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there
are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate
people like that! -Lehrer, Tom
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you anywhere. -Cher
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -Barry,
Lynda
If love is blind, why is Victoria's Secret so successful? -Unattributed
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -Tomlin,
Lily
If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means
always having to say everything twice. -Getty, Estelle
If men were as great lovers as they think they are, we women wouldn't
have time to do our hair. -Dietrich, Marlene
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell
mushrooms from toadstools. -Mansfield, Katherine
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. -Hemingway,
Ernest
If you love a man, set him free. If he comes back, it means he's
forgotten his sandwiches. -Birtles, Jasmine
If you really love someone it shouldn't matter what's been in their
orifices. -Unattributed
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two
separate books. -King, Alan
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus
one equals nothing. -McLaughlin, Mignon
It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love,
drunk, or running for office. -MacLaine, Shirley
Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things
after each other. -Wilde, Oscar
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together
in the same direction. -de Saint-Exupery, Antoine
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals,
sort of like an amateur radio operator. -Brown, Helen Gurley
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like
bread, re-made all the time, made new. -LeGuin, Ursula K.
Love doesn't make people into fools. But it might expose them. -Bryon,
S.
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride
worthwhile. -Jones, Franklin P.
Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo. -Marx, Groucho
Love is a decision, not an emotion. -Unattributed
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he
turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -Groening, Matt
Love is a series Of darlings and dearies Of honeys and sweeties And
sugared entreaties Of moonings and spoonings And cooings and
billings All tempered, of course, By occasional killings. -Harburg,
E.Y.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -Groening,
Matt
Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant. -Cole,
Jim
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is
impossible for those who have had any experience with them. -Mencken,
H.L.
Love is an extension of life, and lust is an extension. -Dangerfield,
Rodney
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -Frost,
Robert
Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn. -Thurber,
James
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. -Aristotle
Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand. -Unattributed
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain
empties. -Renard, Jules
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it, the more likely
one is to contract it. -Chamfort, Nicolas
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral
without love. -Key, Ellen
Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the
species. -Maugham, W. Somerset
Love is the cheapest of religions. -Pavese, Cesare
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is
real. -Murdoch, Jean Iris
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law,
and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of
its duration. -Lawrence, D.H.
Love means having to say you're sorry every five damn minutes. -Maher,
Bill
Love, not time, heals all wounds. -Rooney, Andy
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying
the whole girl. -Esar, Evan
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long
time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it
doesn't always go with everything else in the house. -Kerr, Jean
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. -Marlowe,
Christopher
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first
choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. -Nelson, Willie
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow
to see him commit suicide for her. -Mencken, H.L.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And
love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. -Parker,
Dorothy
Oh, now there's only one kind of love that lasts. That's unrequited
love. It stays with you forever. -Allen, Woody
People ask if it's possible to find love after age 40. The answer is
yes; you just have to reach your hand down a little lower. -King,
John Alejandro (The Covert Comic)
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. -Yates,
Douglas
Perfect love sometimes does not come until grandchildren are born. -Welsh
Proverb
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. -Unattributed
Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each
other is greater than your need for each other. -Unattributed
The best proof of love is trust. -Brothers, Dr. Joyce
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. -Wilson,
Sloan
The first duty of love is to listen. -Tillich, Paul
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. -Bret, Antoine
The love we give away is the only love we keep. -Hubbard, Elbert
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate
twenty-five year old men more. -McCullough, Colleen
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. -Lewis, Joe E.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -Chesterton,
G.K.
The whole thing about matrimony is this: We fall in love with a
personality, but we must live with a character. -de Vries, Peter
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children and
children love hamsters. -Ellis, Alice Thomas
There is nothing finer than the love of a good woman. But the love of
two bad women is nothing to sneeze at. -Spiro, Lev L.
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is
worth a billion dollars. -Galbraith, John Kenneth
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's
words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it
gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a
cloth that feels like love itself. -Brown, John Gregory
To be loved, you have to be nice to everybody every day. To be hated,
you don't have to do squat. -(From the TV series The Simpsons)
To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever
you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. -Nash,
Ogden
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be
wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact
you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round
with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up
safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that
casket-safe, dark, motionless, airless- it will change. It will not be
broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. -Lewis,
C.S.
True love comes gently, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear
bells, get your ears checked. -Segal, Erich
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -de
la Rochefoucauld, Francois
Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk, and that he is in love. -Antiphanes
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first
attack. -von Eschenbach, Marie Ebner
We're here to ruin ourselves, and break our hearts and love the wrong
people and die. -Shanley, John Patrick (From the film Moonstruck)
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is
the test of love. -Westcott, Bruce F.
When the coin is tossed either Love or Lust will fall uppermost. But if
the metal is right, under the one will always be the other. -Brenan,
Gerald
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as
significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state
of love exists. -Sullivan, Harry Stack
When wounded by those you love, try to keep in mind that there is a vast
gulf between malice and weakness. -Johnson, Lyle
Who, being loved, is poor? -Wilde, Oscar
Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is
not enough. -Montagu, Ashley
You need someone to love while you're looking for someone to love. -Delaney,
Shelagh
You've decided to love me for eternity and I'm still deciding who I want
to be today. -DiFranco, Ani
According to the CBS Los Angeles website, Ms. Branson is a winner of the Frank Shakespeare Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism.
Frank was Bill's dyslexic brother.
Published Friday, February 11, 2011 @ 11:56 AM EST
Feb112011
The Catholic Church has approved a new app that lets you make confessions over your iPhone.
It also raises the possibility of accidentally butt-dialing God. -Conan O'Brien
Some late night television shows just have non-descript theme music. The
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson has a philosophy.
It's hard to stay up It's been a long, long day And you got the
sandman at the door But hang on, leave the TV on And let's do it
anyway It's okay! You can always sleep through work tomorrow, OK? Hey
hey! Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.
Tell the clock on the wall Forget the wakeup call Cause the
night's not nearly through Wipe the sleep from your eyes Give
yourself a surprise Let your worries wait another day And if you
stay too late at at the bar At least you made it out this far So
make up your mind and say Let's do it anyway! It's okay! You
can always sleep through work tomorrow, okay? Hey hey! Tomorrow's
just your future yesterday.
Life's too short to worry about The things that you can live without And
I regret to say The morning light is hours away The world can be
such a fright But it belongs to us tonight What's the point of
going to bed? You look so lovely when your eyes are red!
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.
The world can be such a fright But it belongs to us tonight What's
the point of going to bed? You look so lovely when your eyes are red!
It's hard to stay up It's been a long, Long Day And you got the
sandman at the door But hang on, leave the TV on And let's do it
anyway It's okay! You can always sleep through work tomorrow, OK? Hey
hey! Tomorrow's just your future yesterday. Tomorrow's just your
future yesterday.
Published Thursday, February 10, 2011 @ 9:03 AM EST
Feb102011
It appears some of my online accounts have been accessed by someone other than myself, so
I'm locking down some things and taking appropriate security precautions. I'll be off the air
for a while, but stay tuned. As Arnie said, I'll be back.
Published Wednesday, February 09, 2011 @ 10:03 AM EST
Feb092011
FORT WAYNE – Despite garnering far more support in an online poll than
the thicket of other suggestions, residents shouldn’t expect Fort
Wayne’s new government center to be named after the city’s longest
tenured mayor.
Deputy Mayor Beth Malloy said naming 200 E. Berry St. The Harry Baals
Government Center was “probably not” going to happen.
“We love Fort Wayne, too,” she said. “We’re not going to make any
decisions that look bad.”
The name has received 882 votes on the city’s website,
www.feedbackfortwayne.org as of Monday afternoon – more than triple that
of its nearest competitor: Eugene Johnson Memorial Center.
Johnson was the properties manager for the Allen County Public Library
while it occupied the building. The city’s online poll allows anyone to
submit names for the building and then vote on the suggestions.
Baals – pronounced “balls” by the then-mayor but “bales” by his
descendents – became the Republican nominee for mayor in 1934 and was
elected for three successive terms. He returned to politics in 1951 by
winning a fourth term but died in office in May 1954. His
accomplishments include elevating the railroads in town and negotiating
the contract with the Army to establish Baer Field as an air base.
While Baals was a popular mayor, Malloy noted he had an unfortunate name
and some elected officials have said such a name would be an
embarrassment to the city.
Regardless, Malloy said the online feedback effort has been a success
because it has generated interest in local government and created buzz.
“I’m glad people want to get involved,” she said. “We are having fun
with government.”
Frank Suarez, city spokesman, said public voting on the issue will
remain open through Friday. When it is closed, Mayor Tom Henry will be
given as many as 10 finalists from which to choose the name for the
office building. Suarez said Henry will make the selection after talking
to division directors and community leaders, but he said the name will
come from the list of suggestions made by the public.
The city bought the building, the former Renaissance Square, and is
remodeling it to house most city and county departments. The City-County
Building would then be the home for the city and county police
departments.
Published Monday, February 07, 2011 @ 12:26 PM EST
Feb072011
Lady Lucia (aka "Lucy" or "Lulu") is a feisty 13 today, which makes her either 91
or 68 in human years, depending upon whether you use the old or new human-dog years
age equivalency tables.
Both are irrelevant to this saucy lady, whose personality is less like a Shetland sheepdog and
more like the madame of a bordello. She's mouthy, fearless, and has an aggressive, determined
gait, just like Spike the Bulldog in those old Warner Bros cartoons. Forget to let her out
or feed her in a timely manner and she'll march right up to you and give you a piece of her mind.
She sleeps a bit more than she used to, but when she's awake, look out... when Lucy's on
the move, you know it.
Lucy's big secret... she's a snuggle bunny. When no one else is around, she'll curl up
next to you, kiss you senseless, then fall asleep and snore in your ear. The perfect lady, indeed.
What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last reaming. -Pittsburgh's own
Christina Aguilera, flubbing the lyrics of the national anthem at Super Bowl 45.
You just know someone's going to produce a porno movie with that title...
Back in the late 60s and 70s, around the time the term "rip-off" entered
the vernacular, Ralph Nader spearheaded the movement that put into place
many of the consumer protection laws and policies that still survive today.
One of these was the requirement for "unit pricing"- indicating on the grocery shelf price
tag the per unit cost of the packaged item in ounces, pounds, etc.
This was enacted to enable consumers to easily determine the cost of a product, since
some manufacturers used deceptive packaging to trick purchasers. That 99-cent sale item, for
example, might contain only 28 ounces of a product in a box designed to look identical to
the 32 ounce box next to it. Divide the price by the number of ounces, however, and you'd
discover the "sale" item actually cost several cents more per ounce.
I believe people either have forgotten about unit pricing or have never learned how
to use it. Couple that with the almost universal assumption that
the larger the package, the lower the unit cost, and it appears companies are again
taking advantage of consumers.
Last night I ran out to buy cat litter. I usually get the largest container I can,
since our inside feline apparently has the digestive system characteristics of a
zebra-noshing wild cat from the Serengeti. Out of habit, I looked at the unit cost of
the big containers positioned at eye level- 2.9 cents per ounce- then glanced down at the
smaller containers on the shelves near the floor- 2.3 cents per ounce.
Curious, I looked at a number of other items and was surprised to find that about a
third of the time, the unit price of the smaller package of an item was actually cheaper
than the "large economy" version.
I suspect this isn't unique to the Pittsburgh market. Companies are taking advantage
of shoppers' mathematical illiteracy and lack of shopping skills.
Keep your eyes open the next time you're in the supermarket, and do the comparisons yourself.
I think you may be surprised at what you find.
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