Thoughts
by Fred Berman //
Currently, if customers of the Tesco Supermarket in Weston-super-Mare, England, park for longer than half an hour, they must spend at least £3 in the store for a three hour stay. If they don’t, motorists could be slapped with a £70 fine.
Kind of makes all your problems seem small, right? Smile and count your blessings!
by Fred Berman //
I am not sure how to handle this. I shall use this lull in animosity to share some inflammation related wisdom from William Butler Yeats:
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
So get outta here and learn something ya crazy firebugs!
by Fred Berman //
Great News!
At last another makeup line on which young people with unrealistic expectations can throw away their money. Now, instead of only contributing to the billions of the Jenner-Kardashian cabal trying to look like a strung out skank with Kylie Cosmetics, they can choose to look like The Crypt-keeper’s Wife, embracing pale skin, garish lipstick and midnight black circled Siamese cat eyes with GVXE Beauty.
It’s Good to Have Choices!
by Fred Berman //
“Deliciously Twisted” is the title of the latest original movie from Hulu. What does that say about us as a society if that is the catchphrase that is designed to entice us to watch? The promos promise an intimate look at the terrifying landscape of dating where the “darkest secrets” of the most promising people are revealed.
The only “Deliciously Twisted” thing I am interested in is a glazed braid from VooDoo Doughnuts where “The Magic is in the Hole!”
(Speaking about the doughnut, not the date, of course).
by Fred Berman //
Really Adolph; still supporting that numbskull’s Lie?
I mean, it’s ok with me…asking for a friend.
by Fred Berman //
This is the title of a webinar hosted by the AARP today. A chance for us elderly hoarders to unburden ourselves from the tons of expired documents, bank statements and cancelled checks (I’ll pause for a moment so Millennials can google “canceled checks”), old teddy bears and dolls that hold memories of an idealized time we know will never return, magazines filled with must read articles we will never get to, ticket stubs and programs, unwieldy Fostoria Crystal not used in 50 years, and countless items for which we have no use but know we will be heroes to friends and family when they express a need and, like a fairy godmother, wave our wand and make it magically appear!
That was the plan when I signed up to attend, but I dozed off and missed it. So I stand before you unorganized and cluttered. I’m so ashamed! The good news is I still have some old magazines, a baseball glove and Fostoria Crystal if the need for these priceless items should ever arise.
by Fred Berman //
That is, if you care about any of these (news?) items:
There are a few other things going on. Open your eyes.
by Fred Berman //
Sure a few things happened like John F. Kennedy established The Peace Corp (1961); The Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to execute people under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes (2005); 5 years in the making, the highest concrete arch dam in the USA Hoover Dam was completed (1936). All Minor in comparison to the gift we would soon receive from our neighbors to the north when in 1994 Justin Bieber was born.
I wonder if President Biden will mention this in tonight’s State of the Union Address? Might be the highlight.
by Fred Berman //
OMG! Last day of February…almost March already! It’s going so fast. WTF!
Okay…I’m Back.
by Fred Berman //
Sounds like I am describing a typical day in Washington or Mar-a-Lago.
So today I CHOOSE to block the noise and focus on truth before it breathes its last:
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
Excerpt from “Touched by an Angel” Maya Angelou (1995)