On Thursday, during the economic news on KFWB, the reporter quipped "and, of course, it just wouldn’t be a day on the market without another GM death watch announcement," a rather telling statement about our current state of affairs in my opinion.

Granted, today, it looks like after many months of death watch the company is actually going to fail ( Read more... )

When the concept of you leaving work before 8pm strikes your husband as so unlikely as to be humorous…

Yeah. Uh huh. So tell us Ms. Blithescribe. That flavor? Was it grape or cherry?
Cherry. I think.

When asked what the secret is to his happy 20-year marriage to Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon is reported to have said: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

Amen to that! Truly, words to live by.

Crimes against the English language are certainly not the most grievous of Bush's sins, but I fear they may be irreparable even so. When the AMC channel advertises the classic movie the China Syndrome with the tagline the movie classic that took new-cu-ler power offline this particular idiocy has gone way too far.

Yet another reason to look forward ( Read more... )

Are female mullets making a fashion come back I was blissfully unaware of until yesterday? Or is the influence of the 909 starting to creep further and further westward?

I had to run a few errands at the Arcadia mall last night and yikes! They were everywhere!

...well, different from the political blogs that have been the day's norm for some odd reason, I have a MySpace account now...and I don't really like it at all. I started the account because my best friend from high school, my sister and a few other family members are on MySpace and refuse to come to LiveJournal so I figured it would be a way to ( Read more... )

...Apparently, when you are a super villain and you are working on something cool enough to be written up in a national publication, no one comments.

Well, we super villains have been bad mouthed in national publications for so long, that I suppose the mere act of being in one is no longer notable.

For the first time a woman has been nominated to become a four-star general! Yes, it's in part another attempt at a positive legacy for the Bush administration, but I don't care. Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody sounds like she seriously deserves the nomination.

Yay! Whoo hoo!  And it's about damn time!

In order to combat our state budget deficit, many interesting tax hikes have been proposed - sorry, I missed the part of the news cast where they would have said if this came from the governor, the state assembly or just a few legislators testing the waters - on specialized "luxury" purchases including alcohol, cars with certain engine specs, boats ( Read more... )

So let me get this straight, all of the whiny, melodramatic, overly self-entitled folks are not posting on LJ today? 
Define irony.

I don't know if it's the raised by small business owners thing, the having worked for worthwhile nonprofits for most of my life thing, the Renaissance and Enlightenment history major thing (think patronage system people ( Read more... )