Oh come on..

Ivanka Trump — who’s supposed to be running her dad’s “blind trust” — wants to move to Washington D.C.

 

I like to think of myself as a person who doesn't crave unnecessary things, but.

 

 

I love these! And I must admit that I want one. Not going to happen. A regular white one costs about $200 and these go for about $800. I can think of much better uses for $600 but it would make me smile several times a day.  Lots more to look at here.



Fun jobs. Being paid by Stephen Colbert to think up silly anagrams like this one.

Reince  Priebus

Crisp Bee Urine

Thomas Jefferson did NOT say this.

Quotation: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

As this nation makes yet another attempt (almost certainly doomed from the start) to put a few sensible and responsible restrictions on firearm ownership, this quotation pops up here and there as evidence that T. Jefferson was seriously pro-gun. Don't believe it. The Internets are full of bogus quotes attributed to Jefferson, Adams, Washington, and Madison. There are so many non-Jefferson quotes that the website for Monticello has a link to Spurious Quotations. Link is here.

Update: I thought I was so clever....I thought I had discovered some little secret about this and other quotes. But then half an hour after I posted the above I was roaming around on CNN News and found this. Good! I want everyone to learn about the dishonesty of some gun lovers. Not all, I know. Just some. But still.

True? If so, does it matter? Let me answer that. Nah.

I'm a half-hearted member of the Facebook world. I have only posted a couple of times, although I comment on friends' posts occasionally. I have very few Facebook friends and some of them are people I've never met ("friends" I picked up when I was addicted to FarmVille or FarmTown or some farm things). So the fact, if it's a fact, that posts only reach 12 percent of a user's friends doesn't bother me at all. But I do think it's kind of interesting.

Best tweet ever!

@GarryShandling - If you're head of the CIA and can't hide an extramarital affair it means it can't be done. Case closed, fellas.

What you get when you google askew. Using "google" as a verb.

Wha?

From an article in today's Washington Post:

"Hundreds of engineers are working to bring the [Fukushima] nuclear plant under control.... Potential solutions for containing the hazardous materials include...dropping a cloth over the reactors."

Really?

A few days ago someone on my street planted this home-made sign in his or her front yard. Anyone know what the message is? Google doesn't help.

Does anyone, other than me, think I have too much time on my hands?

Check out the ethnicity question. "None"?? I thought about drawing a box & labeled it "Other" or "50% English-50%German."

An application for a course at Montgomery College. I'm assuming there's a very good reason for this question but I wish someone had thought through the choice of no ethnicity.

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for this link. (So snarky, just the thing I was supposed to give up in 2010.)

I love my new socks.

I didn't knit them myself (some anonymous knitter in Vermont did; or at least the tag said it was a Vermont knitter; I'm so cynical these days that I suspect an underpaid and overworked Chinese child made them) but I'm going to start a pair this winter. I've made socks before, with pretty hilarious results.

Classes offered at a local "spa." Could they be more different? Maybe I'll take the first one. I definitely won't take the second.

Create your own Healing Mandala Workshop
January 9, 2010 & January 23, 2010

Each workshop will have guided meditation, simple teachnique instruction, and guidance in creating your own mandala for healing. You need not be an artist or have a particular spiritual/faith journey, just an open heart and mind to being guided to new possibilities in your life. All materials are provided. Cost per workshop: $35/ person


"HOW NOT TO LOOK OLD" Workshop
January 17, 2010

1:00 pm- 4:00 pm
Cost for workshop: $25/ person

My first Utilikilt sighting! It was on the beach but it still counts. What DO those guys wear under the kilt???

Worm warning. (Not the good kind.)

I'm sorry. I have to post this.
A really, really great bit of tape from Limbaugh is here.
Skip ahead, over Keith Olbermann's irritating intro, to watch from 0:48 to 3:15.

2 degrees of separation or How One of My Relatives (and the lawn in this picture) May Have Caused 9/11

I came across this photo while, once again, attempting to get rid of papers. It's a picture of a cousin once removed (his long-dead father was my long-dead grandmother's brother) who I never met; he's standing in front of his dorm on the campus of Colorado State University in Greeley (now called University of Northern Colorado). Osama bin Laden and his pals in al Qaeda were inspired by the writings of an Egyptian writer-educator Sayyid Qutb, who was executed in 1966. Qutb wrote about the evils of the western world, much of which he discovered while living for 2 years in the US. As one website says: "While he was auditing classes [at Colorado State University in Greeley], Qutb also joined student clubs and even church groups, then began to form a hatred for America and the West. He would later write books of his experiences in Greeley, chastising young people for moral decay and [get this!] homeowners in Greeley for their dedication to mowing their lawns." So....my cousin was a freshman there in 1946. Assuming he graduated he would have been there until 1950 and therefore he would have overlapped with Qutb. Maybe something my cousin did irritated Qutb so much that he went back to Egypt and wrote his screed about the US and Greeley in particular. The rest is history. I'm sorry.