Archives for 2023

     Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and former UN Ambassador and Trump Toady, has declared her candidacy for the Republican nomination.  I don’t care anymore for her ideas than I do for the previously declared candidate, but at least she has been known to tell the truth occasionally.  That’s a big plus in my mind, but not necessarily in the minds of her target audience.
    Still, there is the possibility her current opponent will be in prison soon so we have to give her a longshot chance.  

“Fingers crossed!”  Not for her, for prison.

“Ludicrous to think that the word you mean is one that happens to share a final sound with one you’ve just used.  What sense does that make?”  This quote, from a review in The New Yorker by Kamran Javadizadeh, got me thinking.  What is the value of rhyme?  It is certainly fun and an effective memory aid.  Examples:

• Playing “The Name Game” using Chuck. Fun!  “Banana, Fanna  Fo…”
• Your name is Berman and your high school friends call you Sperman.  Fun, I guess.
• You’re a girl with the last name Spitz and having developed at an early age you are the subject of many schoolyard rhyming epithets (figure it out genius).  Fun then, offensive now.
• Memorizing life-saving facts: “The chalice with the palace has the pellet that is poison.  The vessel with the thistle has the brew that is true!” 
• Keeping Kosher.  “Whenever we sit down to eat, we don’t have milk when we have meat!”  

Hey look:  I’m a poet and I don’t know it! (But my feet show it!)

That’s the question Clint Eastwood posed to Albert Popwell as he lay bleeding on the streets of San Francisco after Dirty Harry shot him escaping from an unsuccessful attempt at robbing a bank.  “Did he fire five shots or six?”  Popwell didn’t trust his instinct and lost an opportunity to take out Detective Harry Callahan and save us from a string of mediocre sequels…

We can make our own luck.  In his book “The Luck Factor,” author Richard Wiseman, identified four common traits in inherently lucky people.  

• They leap at opportunities.
• They listen to their intuition.
• They are optimists.
• They are resilient.

The last time I did the first three; used my intuition, felt optimistic and leapt at an opportunity, I bought stock in Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin Galactic at about $25.00 a share.  Branson almost immediately sold a block of his personal holdings.  The stock is now hovering far from outer space at about $4.00 a share.  But I’m still here so I guess I am resilient.  One out of four! 

I did have all four traits and amazing luck about 48 years ago when I met Linda and she said “YES!”  That’s enough luck for anyone.  But if you happen to have a hot stock tip I’m all ears!

Although Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly haven’t officially pulled the plug on their wedding plans, a source tells People Magazine the couple “had a fight over the weekend” and that the actress (really?), is very upset and won’t speak to the actor/musician, (Really?),  (People Mag is way too nice).  And here I am just getting over the KimYe breakup! 

Megan:  Time to hook-up with Pete Davidson.  It’ll do wonders for your career and perhaps the public won’t notice that since you started have work done you barely look your species.  Meow!

P.S. Does anyone really care about any of this; especially this website?

“…by any other name would still smell as sweet.”   Good thought Will,  but they also have thorns causing puncture wounds that might lead to infection with all manner of horrific outcomes possible”

Yes, that is how my day is going!

     There is dry ice so why not dry water?  That is the question that kept running through my head.  And who was it that said all great discoveries begin as an unanswerable question?  I went to work and did my research and developed a water that can be used for almost anything; you can swim, do laundry, shower or bathe, wash your car, floors and windows without ever having to use any method of drying.  It simply goes on dry. 
     The one problem is that the chemical needed to create dry water is only available on Proxima Centauri, a star that is 4.24 light years away (roughly 25 trillion miles).  There is a shuttle there leaving soon and I need to be on it, but the guard says I am not allowed to leave until I post something called bail and complete a 72 hour psychiatric hold.
     Would someone please go for me and pick up my order on Proxima Centauri?  Obi-Wan Kenobi was going to go for me but he is on the no-fly list due to covid restrictions and Mr. Spock has a previous engagement on Alpha Centauri (dang, so close, yet too far to swing by!). 

I would really appreciate it and owe you one!

The first network email was sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971. The email to himself said “something like QWERTYUIOP”. It was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the internet.

1971:  Also the last time when any employee with a computer did a full day’s work!

Dr. Anthony Rossi shares his thoughts on the subject.  Dr. Rossi is an assistant attending dermatologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and a fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology so he knows his stuff!
“Our beliefs about clothing hygiene are largely “societal and cultural,” said Dr. Anthony  “People tend to over wash and ‘over hygiene’ themselves, because especially in America, we have the luxury of being able to do all that stuff all the time.”

Experts worldwide are weighing in on the subject.  “There are a few types that should be washed after every use: underwear, socks, tights, leggings and activewear.  “This advice also applies to any other clothes with stains, sweat, odor or visible dirt,” said Manal Mohammed, a senior lecturer of medical microbiology at the University of Westminster in London.

The medical community seems to spend a lot of time on this subject.  I guess they must have already cured cancer.

“Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy… The few that imagine themselves kings or gods are happy, the rest are no happier than the sane.”  
Wisdom from Mark Twain.

No wonder our elected officials are so happy!

I am honored to have the renowned Nobel Prize winner, survivor of the Holocaust and recent winner of the Senior Club Championship at Trump International Golf Club posting a message here today.  There had been some controversy created when twice-impeached ex-president Trump declared himself the winner of the golf tournament after missing the first day.  But when it was verified that George Santos missed every day, trumping Trump’s lie with an even bigger one, he was declared victorious.

There is talk George will be Donald’s running mate as they share the same lack of values, empathy and intelligence.  And in today’s post George delivers the identical message that the ex-president has spouted for years:
                    “F.U. America!  It’s all about ME!”