Friday, January 09, 2009

Oddities for a Cold Day in January

When the Treasury Department was asked why the new 20, 10, 5, and 1 dollar bills that beamed brightly in vivid color in the dark did not work when used as decorations on a Christmas tree, they replied, "Everyone knows that money does not glow on trees."

Who ought to be in jail? The !&%$#@! people who leave their #@%$#& grocery carts in the parking lanes, especially on a rainy day.

In with them and Bernie Madoff should be the ^&%#!) folks who straddle two parking places in order to create distance between them and the law-abiding citizens who park inside the lines. Thus do they create distance and reduce to the danger to their -- usually large -- vehicles.

Russia has started passing gas toward Ukraine again. Paradoxically, this is good news.

President Bush claimed that he was a unifier not a divider. Exactly. More than 2/3 thirds of Americans are united in disapproving of his presidency.

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