From the ladies room

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Sunday’s fortune

My Fortune Cookie told me:
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Get a cookie from Miss Fortune

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Why PR/Marketing majors should take history courses too

From BBC News. Dr. Pepper’s marketing agency created a “find the buried coin” contest, in which players would follow clues to the buried treasure, dig it up and claim their prize.
Nice idea. But they buried one prize in the historic Boston cemetery where Paul Revere, John Hancock and Samuel Adams, among [...]

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Random acts of kindness and good writing

My faith in the goodness of people wasn’t all gone, but reading this entry over at Wide Lawns and Narrow Minds put some luster back on it.

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But if you use the drive-thru you won’t notice a thing

Here’s another reason to not eat fast food.

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Ghost written by a lawyer

My Fortune Cookie told me:
Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be well advised to refrain from catapulting projectiles.
Get a cookie from Miss Fortune

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Genuine Windows Spyware and Aggravation

I may start flirting with Macs. Never thought I’d say that. My attitude has been: it’s a computer, stupid. Not a religion. It’s a tool, pick one and use it and focus on what you’re using it to do.
Maybe it’s one of those confluences or cosmic grocery orders being delivered just when you ran out [...]

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Someone who probably didn’t pray for rain

An ABC News story from Sierra Vista, Arizona today:
A flood opened up a hole near a septic tank, revealing a stash of videotapes showing a man having sex with children and leading to the man’s arrest, the FBI announced Wednesday.
The defendant is now 81 years old. The children were underaged girls. The tapes [...]

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Puppy-killers, child molester, may be given lighter sentences

Just when I start thinking we don’t really need a death penalty on the books in this country, a really nasty case pops up and I pause.
Warning. This is very upsetting stuff. I just found it and almost lost my breakfast when reading the online material.
You can read as much as you can stand [...]

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Well, that’s a relief.

Lord, I am so glad we live in an age of nearly instant electronic communications, so that news can reach us quickly. I’ve had the TV on as usual, catching the early morning local news programs.  At 7:00 this morning I  didn’t change the channel after the local news ended, so [...]

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Headline of the day

Mom Accused Of Trying To Drown Children In Court
Story’s here, but I bet they change the headline so I’m capturing a screen shot for posterity.

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Feminist principals

Sometimes I visit blogs on the Today’s Hot Blogs list at the WordPress main page. This morning it was a feminist blog that says it’s “anti-subordination, woman-only, woman-centered, woman-friendly, and open to all women.” Which is a lot to contemplate before dawn over my first cup of coffee.
I went there in preference to clicking the [...]

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Saturday’s fortune

My Fortune Cookie told me:
You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message.
Get a cookie from Miss Fortune

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Call now, while supplies last

Now we have Microsoft’s longest product name ever: Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE Limited Numbered Signature Edition.
The $259 product package includes a embossed signature from Bill Gates himself.  No, it’s not a signed product, but a “signature” product.  Mr. G’s paws haven’t touched the box; a machine embossed a facsimile of his signature onto it.
From [...]

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If he didn’t exist, we’d have to make him up

How thoughtful. At least one of our state legislators would save us the trouble of traveling all the way to Saudi Arabia, by establishing religious police right here at home.
OK, maybe not exactly religious police. But this story from Julia C. Martinez’s Denver Post column yesterday suggests that idea might be just okey-dokey to one [...]

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Not a big Spring break destination

The Spanish Inquisition is over but its spirit is alive and well in the 21st Century.  According to the Associated Press,  a Saudi Arabian judge recently sentenced 20 foreigners “to receive  lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced.”  The rest of [...]

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Sunday night’s fortune cookie

My fortune cookie told me:
On Friday you will be the victim of a bizarre joke, involving a leopard and some mittens.
Get a cookie from Miss Fortune

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Funny Texas ladies

Among them: Gladys Hardy, who says she’s 88 years young. She calls ‘em as she sees ‘em down there in Austin, Texas.
Unless of course there’s more – or less – to Gladys than meets the ear. She’s very funny, but just who is she really? An Austin American-Statesman writer says [...]

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Why it’s a colder place here now

Molly Ivins has died. If that link has expired, you can read the story here. UPDATE: The Texas Observer has a rich lode of photos, tributes and information, and a kickass pic of Molly in her prime.

Damn. I’m going to miss her. And I never met her.
I was an adolescent in Houston in the 1960’s; [...]

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Our groundhog froze

It’s 5:30 a.m. MST. The TV news is showing some well-upholstered old white men in old-fashioned dark suits and top hats. One of them is holding a fat furry rodent with a bored look on its face, another is speaking long words into a microphone, and the rest are crowding around the other [...]

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