Daily Inflammation

It met with a very cold reception.
The audiences eventually warmed to the play but that resulted in flooding of the theater.

The list from the AARP:

1. Grocery bags.
2. Airline seat assignments.
3. Air for your tires at a gas station.
4. Resort Amenities.
5. Restaurant reservations.

But there are still some great freebies available.  For example, reading the content on this website, unless you consider the cost of all the wasted time and diminished brain capacity from being exposed to all this drivel.  Actually, looking at it that way, this might be the most expensive site you ever visited!

Asking for a friend.

On this day in 1967 Revolutionary Che Guevara was captured by the Bolivian Army and executed the next day.  In December of 1951, pre-revolutionary, he was an affluent, Argentinian medical student, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna.  He began a motorcycle trip throughout South American that took him from The Amazon to the Andes where he witnessed the horrors of poverty and social injustice.  He made this comment about the residents of a leper colony in Peru:  “The psychological lift it gives to these poor people—treating them as normal human beings instead of animals, as they are used to—is incalculable,”  He dedicated his life to seeking justice for the poor and working class.  You may disagree with his methods but hopefully you understand the goal.

So if we could arrange a motorcycle trip around the country for the elitist sociopaths that represent us, perhaps they can learn to understand the plight of those on the lower socio-economic rungs of life’s ladder.  They would learn empathy and show some compassion for less fortunate humans and actually provide help rather than turning their back.  

But billionaires may have to start paying taxes and we wouldn’t want to suffer that injustice so, never mind.

Or, as I like to call it, a creative vehicle for money-laundering. 
Can’t think of another plausible explanation.
Makes you wonder about that light bulb and battery store…

Research published in The European Journal of Preventive Cardiology says drinking coffee everyday reduces your risk of heart disease or death.  They found that of the 449,563 participants, those who drank two to three cups had the least risk of heart disease or death compared to non-coffee drinkers. All kinds of coffee were beneficial, but ground coffee was the clear winner, reducing the death risk by 27%.  While most of us drink the brew for a shot of the last legal mind-altering drug caffeine, the finding suggest coffee’s non-caffeinated compounds are primarily responsible for its health-boosting benefits.

The best part is that a home brewed cup of coffee that costs between 30 and 40 cents is just as effective as a $12.00 venti mocha half-caf Americano long black macchiato with a flat white affogato cappuccino colonic.  So brew a cup at home and leave the posh coffee for egomaniacal would-be influencers that boost their self-worth by berating a starving actor barista for too much foam, not enough whip or forgetting the second shot of peppermint.

Besides, according to the #1 authority on coffee I make a better cup than Starbucks and Linda is completely impartial and has no reason to lie!

Believe it or not.  These are just some of the awe-inspiring sights I viewed in my city alone.

• There was a once-in-a-lifetime sale at the Lamps R Us store.
• An Oriental rug store was having a going-out-of-business sale.
• All of the 150+ dentists in our area are accepting new patients.
• A motorcyclist changed lanes without signaling.
• Our supermarket had empty shopping carts strewn about the parking lot.
• A jam of cars in line at the In-N-Out Burger (perhaps the biggest mystery).

Mind Blown!!

Celeste Dixon from South Australia can do 8.   She was just one of the nearly 40,000 Guinness World Records 2023 applicants who believe their particular passion, talent, or trait (AKA Freak of Nature) should be considered for the new edition.  Other applicants include a Shetland pony that can walk on its hind legs, the youngest person ever to discover a comet and an insane narcissist who thinks he can be elected president from a cell in Leavenworth.

I will be among the applicants for the 2024 edition.  I was not able to beat 8 backward somersaults, or a single forward one, so I am applying as the person who has the fewest readers and the most insipid posts on any website.   Like my old pal P.T. Barnum remarked, “Say whatever you like about me, just spell my name right.”  

Stress sucks…and smells and dogs can detect it. If you believe your canine companion can tell when you’re upset without any external indication of your emotions, you now have science to back up the claim.   A new study suggests that dogs can pick up on human stress by using the strongest tool they have: their sense of smell.

It’s probably a good thing there are no dogs at Mar-a-Lago.  The poor dog would be going nuts from the stench!