On a Lighter Note…
I’ve been trying to be good, really, I have, and leave commentary about this matter to others; mainly, various of my favorite disrespectful radio personalities. But while catching up on Andrew Bolt’s blog this afternoon (which I visit, let the record show, because it is informative, insightful and 99.9% POLITICAL) in the Herald Sun, naturally,…
Further to my post about the inadvertent rudeness of modern technology, CNET’s Jasmine France has put pen to paper … er, electrons to screen and outlined some “Mobile Manners”, starting with the date. … I can’t even begin to tell you how many stories I’ve read or heard regarding significant others’ downright rude use of…
Just because it’s interesting: … According to psychologists and researchers who study such things, yawning has nothing to do with boredom, rudeness, or even fatigue. Quite the contrary. Yawning helps cool down our brains so they function better, explains Andrew Gallup, a researcher who specializes in yawning at New York’s University of Binghamton. “Our brains…
No, that’s not a NY/MA/RI mispronounciation of someone who breaks into your computer. It’s the dance (ritual?), lasting about a minute, performed before each game by New Zealand’s Rugby team, the All Blacks. It has its roots in a Maori dance tradition, battlefield and other. There’s actually a movement to ban the Haka, for reasons…
Courtesy Ocean State Follies, where we learn, by the way, that Charlie recently opened a gallery and gift shop in North Providence. In light of this week’s events in North Providence, the question naturally arises: did you have to take care of somebody, Charlie, to get your gallery open??
How not to interact with a member of the public. How not to interact with a member of the media. [Warning: language.] And an oldie but a goodie in the spirit of bipartisanship: how not to interact with another dignitary.
One of those trouble makers in East Providence sent me this. SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbor. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM You have 2 cows.…
In Friday’s Orange County Register. Hence, Bill Clinton energetically on the stump, summoning all his elder statesman’s dignity (please, no giggling) in the cause of comparing Tea Partiers to Timothy McVeigh. Oh, c’mon, they’ve got everything in common. They both want to reduce the size of government, the late Mr. McVeigh through the use of…
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I’m not going to delve into the subject matter, right now, preferring to save it for another day, but I got a chuckle out of two citations of Anchor Rising related to the same story in different articles. From Ed Fitzpatrick’s Sunday column: And the day after the rally, Lynch’s campaign manager questioned Caprio’s support…