Thoughts
…When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!”
They don’t write advertising jingles like that anymore. Word paintings, beautiful images created with the lofty ideal of bringing life affirming grace into the retail sales process.
“E-Z Pop pops in its own pan. Now you’re swinging daddy, crazy man!”
Ahhhh. Lovely poetry that calmed the soul and gave focus to man’s eternal need to purchase.
A popular phrase warning against complacency has been misattributed to the eighteenth-century Irish philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke. It doesn’t really matter who said it; it’s true.
The problem is that people believe posting Facebook rants supporting their position is doing something. Spoiler Alert: It is not. That’s textbook inaction. You really want to help? Do something else like…or…Hmmm, I see the problem.
This title is quoted from The Atlantic on-line regarding some testimony at the Congressional Hearings investigating the January 6th insurrection on Capitol Hill. I didn’t have time to read the article so I am not sure who they were talking about.
I wonder if it’s about the insane, megalomaniacal narcissist that I think it is. Thoughts? Such a mystery!
3.6 million passengers travel through Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station each day. The rail station first opened in 1885 and was a less-traveled hub until new rail lines were introduced in the 1920s. Today, the station has 36 platforms, serving as the primary connecting hub for traffic between West Tokyo and the major districts in the city.
So how do we apply this information to our lives so that we may learn, grow and be better human beings going forward?
…Well?…That was a serious question. I haven’t got a clue so I was hoping you’d jump in. Slow news day. I’m just filling up space.
Spoiler Alert! He lived! Machine Gun Kelly says he had a suicide attempt while on the phone with Megan Fox: “I just snapped!”
Just so happens, purely by coincidence and without any preplanning or thought what-so-ever, that this shocking revelation in People Magazine comes as he promotes the premier of his new Hulu documentary “Life in Pink.”
Spoiler Alert #2: While the program deals with his “who the hell cares” struggle with the death of his father, rumors swirl that the real cause of the attempt was the extended bout of E.D. he experienced with Megan Fox. Makes more sense, right?
Just by eating, goats can save lives. Last month a wildfire in California stopped before spreading to a West Sacramento neighborhood with 250 homes because a herd of goats have been eating the weeds and low-hanging vegetation surrounding the area. They have been munching the tasty treats for the last 8 years. The result; open spaces that prevented the fire from spreading.
Have Goats, Will Travel! Several other states use this method and Colorado is home to a herd of 1200 goats that have traveled to 17 states to munch on these organic delicacies.
City-dwellers may not have access to the standard Bovidae Caprine, but there is another similar genus, the Horney Old Goat, identified by his habit of frequently napping on the couch. You can achieve similar life-saving results by equipping the old goat with a Craftsman Weed Whacker and forcing him to go outside under penalty of withheld affection.
Your ordinary garden variety goat is easier to deal with but we do what we can with what we are given!
Reading a pop-up ad for computer virus protection from McAfee (beware of a McAfee scam, by the way) it occurred to me that this ad, with a slight adjustment, could be a valuable warning for many actions in life. Your computer is not the only piece of equipment that needs virus protection. What about YOU?
So on your next hook-up, whether it be in a seedy bar or airport restroom with a U.S. Congressperson, always use protection!
(This has been a Public Service Announcement from betterfredthandead.com. A public service announcement is a message in the public interest disseminated by the media without charge to raise public awareness and change behavior. Enjoy!)
Hats off to Seattle, Washington, for looking out for their people by remembering what is important. While the gun nuts want carry permits and religious whackos want everyone to follow their beliefs or suffer eternal damnation (usually reserved for politicians), one city is working on achieving a goal beneficial to everyone.
Seattle’s Landmarks Preservation Board will consider the Elephant Car Wash sign for landmark status. Denny Way without the Elephant Sign would surely portend a less joyous future. Bravo Seattle!
Seriously. Yesterday was June 21st, the summer solstice, also known as the longest day of the year and widely-recognized as the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. In terms of astronomy, the June solstice marks the sun’s northernmost point in our sky for the year. So today will have a bit less daylight than yesterday. The daylight hours will continue to diminish until we reach the winter solstice on December 21st, the shortest day of the year.
But by the time we hit December 21st no one will give a rat’s ass about the sunlight as it will be the 4th night of Hanukkah; 4 days until Faux Christmas (The one where we overspend on unneeded gifts, not the one that celebrates the birth of Jesus); 4 days until the real Christmas; 5 days until the start of Kwanzaa and 2 days until the best-of-us celebrate Festivus! (I just made that up…clever, no?)
And for the curmudgeons that don’t celebrate any of these, I hope you find some joy in the fact the on December 22nd the day will be a little brighter.
234 years ago on this day, June 21, in 1788: New Hampshire became the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land. On December 15, 1791 the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution were ratified.
If only the Founding Fathers of our nation could see that their 2nd amendment, meant to protect our freedom, has been misinterpreted and is now a misguided rallying cry for a subset of demented psychos affectionately known as “gun nuts.” These special needs people now use guns as a penis extension and a method of easing their fear of…everything!
I think the Founding Fathers would have a good laugh; something we need a great deal more than AK-47s.