Remember: age is a number, not a lifestyle. WHEEEEEE!!!
Where’s the suggestion box?
If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. If you can say something nice, be sure to mention it while you’re complaining about everything else.
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It does a body… neutral?
There’s been an ad on TV recently for Caltrate, a drug that provides more calcium to help strengthen your bones. Why should we take it?
“Our bodies can steal calcium from our bones.”
Which means our bodies are stealing calcium from… parts of our bodies. Shame on us all…
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Sinful statistics
Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving. Clumping two deadly sins into a four-day weekend: gluttony (feasting on turkey, stuffing and football) followed by covetousness (trampling Wal-Mart employees to death to get our sinful hands on a $99 DVD player). Oh, and if you include Cyber Monday in the festivities, you can add another deadly sin into the mix: sloth (people too lazy to brave the shopping malls for those $99 DVD players). Ah, what a blessed holiday!
But that’s not what I wanted to focus on. I was watching the 10:00 news on Friday night and the newscaster said that sales on Black Friday were up 4% compared to last year. “Wow, maybe the recession isn’t so bad if people are still willing to blow wads of cash on unnecessary junk!” Then the newspaper arrived the next morning to alert its readers that sales on Black Friday were down this year. Obviously, it was looking at the state results versus the local TV news reporting national stats, but it made me wonder:
Which source reflects the media’s liberal bias?
Or maybe they were trying to make us all look like sinnier sinners by accusing us of covetousness and sloth at the same time: “You all wanted too much stuff, but you locals were too lazy to buy it!” Personally, I’m gonna stick with gluttony and start working on the leftovers that are packed into the fridge…
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Head Case: The Fuzzy Years
I’ve been putting off writing this entry because, well, it makes me a tad uncomfortable to think about. I’ve alluded to it in previous posts in this category, but… framing this is harder than I thought it would be. Part of that might be because I don’t know exactly when it started and another part might be because some of what I’m writing is second-hand knowledge. Still, I’m pretty sure this chapter began in college. Continue reading “Head Case: The Fuzzy Years”
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Harmful side-effects of too many campaign ads
I’ve been breathing a lot of sighs of relief recently—whenever the television is on, I only have to suffer through beer commercials, car ads and people asking me, “What’s in your wallet?” (Answer: Credit cards that aren’t Capital One.)
Sure, it’s bad, but it’s not as overbearing as the hours and hours of political commercials, smear ads and people asking me, “Do you really know who Obama is?” (Answer: Aside from being the first black President-elect in the history of the United States? Nope! But it’d be kind of funny if he carried a Capital One card…)
And now that the elections are over, they’re gone. No more campaigning for at least five months. Okay, maybe four. But then I was asleep last night and that all changed.
I had a dream where I was in the house and the TV was on in the background. Suddenly, I turned around and saw a campaign ad for Michelle Bachman, Republican member of the House representing Minnesota and a fruitcake. She believes homosexuality is evil, we should preach Creationism in schools and said this on CNN, which led to this petition.
She had bought some commercial time that was post-Nov. 4th and it was too late to get the TV time/money back, so they played the ad—I don’t remember if it was an “I’m good” or a “He sucks” ad—even though she already won (and a kitten died because of it).
Okay, sorry, no more political favorites. All I can say is that because it was a campaign ad airing after I was physically, emotionally and spiritually depending on them to stop, I wanted to cry myself to sleep, which is extremely hard to do when you’re already asleep.
