I have a saying when I see someone do something particularly stupid and dangerous – You are going to end up as a sad, sad story in the Merc. The “Merc” is our local newspaper, The Mercury News, (yes, thankfully, we still have one – although it has been downsized a lot) and the Local…
I say, when we finally come down to the Presidential debates (not just the ones to cull the current herd of Democrats), that we do the following: Anytime a candidate is caught telling a lie, they get a time out. Their mic is shut off for “x” number of minutes. This idea makes me smile.
Not the ones on her punkin’ head. I stopped dying long ago – it just wasn’t worth the battle. No, I mean my home town, Bay City, Michigan, where I hope one day to retire. Many years ago, I was thinking I would like to try living in Alaska. This was pre-internet in every home…
Many people love Oprah Winfrey. I respect and admire the woman; but I don’t love her. I don’t love her because Oprah Winfrey does not love herself. Oprah has spent a lifetime battling her own body. She is the queen of weight recycling, and body (self) hatred. Being the boss of her own underpants, that…
All over the news today. A kid brings a digital clock he made himself to school and ends up taken away from the school in handcuffs and suspended for 3 days. WTF? Apparently, an English teacher at the school decided the homemade clock looked like a bomb. Okay. Except it wasn’t a bomb. It was…
Michigan is in the news! And it’s good news – sort of. Michigan is the only state in the United States that has head lice that have not mutated and become resistant to over-the-counter treatments! Um. Whoo-hoo? Seems that head lice in a lot of states have become resistant to pyrethroids, the active ingredient in…
I open up Yahoo this morning and there’s this picture of Putin in a mini-sub that is (supposedly) headed down to the bottom of the Black Sea. Okay. Don’t know why that is so exciting but fine. Whatever. But I have one question – to the right of Putin’s head – is that a roll…
First, who is the sick fuck who put pieces of six habanero peppers in the woodchips of a school playground in Lakewood, Colorado? Second, seriously, this led to the evacuation of the school? Locking down the school would not be sufficient to keep the kids safe from habanero peppers? Makes you wonder how effective a…
Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady 