A friend sent this to me in an email and I was floored… All this talk about “stimulus packages” and”bailouts”… A billion dollars… A hundred billion dollars… Eight hundred billion dollars… One TRILLION dollars… What does that look like? It’s so much money that I can’t even comprehend that prefix… So, to provide some scale […]
It’s hard to be a mean mom, but it’s worth it.
Ruben Navarrette, a columnist for the San-Diego Union Tribune, wrote an article about a growing sense of entitlement that much of the country has in general, but kids in particular. He is so right on with this! Kids do think that they are special, just because their parents tell them they are. Kids do think […]
Oh, this one could really backfire….
I get it. Times are tough. Businesses are looking for ways to cut back, to save money. What used to be free to consumers now comes with a fee. I suggest the folks at Irish airline Ryanair do a serious cost/benefit analysis before implementing their plan to make passengers pay to use the on board […]
A loaf of bread, a bottle of milk, and a pound of common sense… Oops, we’re fresh out of that.
Are we in a recession? I’d say yes. Are things tough all over? Unless you’re Paris Hilton, I’d say yes. (Although Paris has a set of problems that none of us will ever have to deal with, thank you God.) Are people losing their jobs, tightening their belts and wondering how they’re going to make […]
And your regional cuisine sucks too!
Birmingham, the 2nd largest city in England, has issued an ordinance to ban the apostrophe from all of their street signage. Their claim is that the apostrophe is outdated and it confuses people. Confuses people? Really? Confuses people?! You have to be a special kind of stupid to not be able to find a cathedral […]
Shut up shut up shut up!
I know that we’ve all gotten used to being around people talking on their cell phones. Maybe we are even guilty of carrying on a conversation while at the grocery store or while pumping gas (although I hear that can make your car blow up…) Still, it was everything I could do to not get […]
Happy birthday, dear Hitler….
What!? Shocked? Not as shocking as an idiot couple in PA who named their son Adolf Hitler Campbell.They are mad because the local supermarket bakery would not put the child’s entire name on the cake. Ultimately, good ole Wal-Mart came to the rescue and Lil’ Hitler got his cake. Why would you name a child […]
Just ew.
Ew. I have photos on flickr.com. Most of the are restricted so that only friends and family can see them. Several I had to list as “public” so I could access them from another site. I was on flickr today and noticed that someone had left comments about my photos. It was another mom who […]
I’m not a she-she-la-la kind of girl.
I didn’t like the color pink for most of my life. I love it now. If it’s pink in this household, it may as well be radioactive… the boys won’t touch my iPod, my hairbrush, my toothbrush, my jacket, etc…. Pink is a great defense mechanism at my house. I was a tomboy growing up. […]
Victoria’s Secret…? That they’re screwing with us.
I am certain that the Victoria’s Secret Powers That Be are either a) demented; or b) sitting back and laughing their collective asses off; or, c) both (I’m goin’ with c) These are photos from the 2008 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Miami. Targeting the Elmer Fudd demographic. How practical! Underwear that doubles as a […]