- I think Casey Anthony might make a living after she gets out of prison by doing porn, but my son suggests a nationwide chain of Casey Anthony Day Care Centers.
- I have ethics and journalistic principles: Nancy Grace has a TV show plus lots and lots of money. Let that be a lesson to you.
- In Indiana earlier this week, a guy spent $85,000 on a never-titled 1979 Pontiac Trans Am with only 6.7 original miles on the odometer. It was sold from a family-owned dealership that closed after 80 years in business. I’m betting GM is happy that its new car warranties are for a certain mileage or a certain period of time, not whichever one is greater. Otherwise, they’d have to honor a warranty on a 32-year-old new car.
- If you want to see a brand-new 32-year-old car, hop on down to your local Lincoln dealer and get a salesman to show you a new, 2011 Town Car.
- I’ll call my new rock band, “Flu-like symptoms.” I figure I’ll get a lot of free advertising from TV commercials for prescription drugs.
- I’m just about the only person who knows that my initial impulse is always to have a terrible temper and a terrible tantrum too. I want to yell and scream at people, and I do yell both very, very loud and extremely rarely, mostly when it’s time to make a lot of noise at a Cub Scout meeting. I don’t do it elsewhere because I grew up in a family where lots of adults were more than willing to give me “something to cry about.” I had a calm, rational discussion with the contractor remodeling my house today. Monday will begin the twelfth week of our three-week project. I’m responsible for one week delay when I was on vacation and unplanned, but necessary electrical work probably extended the project by two weeks. Still, the contractor is way behind. Calm, and rational discussions usually work better, and since I’m not a dentist, pulling teeth to get the thing done seems out of the question. Besides, if calm, and rational doesn’t work, I can always scream and yell later. But it’s kind of hard to back down from yelling and screaming if that’s where you started.
- The calm, rational discussion is having some good effect. The contractor sent someone around on Friday who worked diligently all day and made some significant progress on the small things still needing attention. I hope we finish this phase Monday.
- On the Tonight Show, Jay Leno was going over some funny pictures, ads and errors from newspapers in a feature he calls Headlines. One was a picture of a guy making chili in a toilet bowl. I thought, that’s eliminating the middle man!
