I’ve had many complaints about the social network giant Facebook lately, I know. I don’t know if I’m just sick of it—or if what it has slowly become has made me sick. (I did get sick from the heat over the weekend, but I’m pretty sure that has nothing to do with Facebook.) There are a lot of hate groups, a lot of whiny people, and a lot of negative comments on the site that I would much rather stay away from, thank you very much.

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You may already have seen, and presumably been charmed by, Tanya Davis' video poem titled "How To Be Alone."  It is a step-by-step guide to re-entering the world as a single person after a break-up.  And, frankly, it's adorable.

But not to The Globe And Mail columnist Russell Smith, it's not.  

He calls it "pair-bonding-obsessed weepiness," which confused me.  Did we watch the same video? 

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Another Truth Challenged Republican

The Associated Press reports that "Jay Leno is cracking Quayle jokes on late night. But now the rising target of comics is Ben Quayle, son of the gaffe-prone former vice president, who is committing doozies of his own in his campaign for Congress."

Young Mr. Ben Quayle is running as a family-values conservative. He wrote for a lite porn web site, and at first denied, then admitted that he had. Mr. Quayle used the alias 'Brock Landers," the name of a character from the 1997 movie "Boogie Nights" about porn stars in California. Oh, how original!

This Mr Quayle also is so inept, clumsy with his deception, that one would think he's brain deficient as well as truth challenged.

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Richie Hayward, was an excellent drummer. He was the co-founder of the amazing jam band 'Little Feat', that played rock, country, jazz and blues. The band and Richie Hayward are being remembered for songs like "Willin."

The Associated Press reports that he died yesterday, Thursday morning, after complications of pneumonia. He was 64. Richie Hayward had liver cancer.

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Packaging Designer Andrew Kim created a unique design for coke bottles- square coke bottles. I don’t know about you, but I think they look amazing. Not sure if Coca-Cola will adopt them, but I think they should. Andrew Kim's Coke Bottle Designs

Pulling A Steven-Slater: It's In The Way You Quit Your Job

Sometimes the job gets to the best of workers, especially when the job requires dealing with the public, and among the public are more than a few very difficult customers. I've been there.

Yesterday morning, Steven Slater, a flight attendant at Jet Blue Airline, came to the point when he said enough is enough and became an instant Internet folk hero.

Who hasn't had days like Steven Slater and who, working in the service field, haven't had to deal with a difficult customer or two and wanted to pull a Steven-Slater?

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Eat, Pray, LoveI haven’t read “Eat, Pray, Love”  by Elizabeth Gilbert and I am on the fence about whether or not to see the movie starring Julia Roberts. Enough people have told me about the book that I feel like I know it already- a woman seeks out salvation and finds herself in an Ashram in India.



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Ieshuh GriffinAnybody can run for office and anybody can say anything,  -- almost.

Ieshuh Griffin is an independent candidate, running to represent the east side of Milwaukee and parts of Glendale. in the Wisconsin state Assembly. She wants to describe herself on the ballot as "NOT the 'whiteman's bitch.'"

The Associated Press reports --"State law allows independent candidates to have five words describing themselves placed after their names on the ballot as long as it's not pejorative, profane, discriminatory or includes an obscene word or phrase."

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If I believed in biblical things, I would say that this is the time of Job in my life, but on a much-smaller scale. Maybe I am operating under the principle of Murphy’s Law, which states that, “Everything that can go wrong will go wrong.” I’ve decided to take a cautiously optimistic approach to life and my spell of minor troubles and believe that if the universe is indeed dishing me a few too many sides of bad luck, I’m going to take it as a semi-positive sign and believe that at least I am somewhat important- being totally ignored by the Fates would be worse, wouldn’t it?


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Sub-titled "And Never Feel Powerless Again," this book takes a "command and conquer" approach to life.  The more I read, the more I realized that… I don't really have a need to learn how to get anyone to do anything.  I'm not a sales person, and I no longer work in a corporate environment where winning arguments and driving the conversation is important.  Lucky me!

I checked this book out for a laff, expecting to find a lot of cheesy salesman style Jedi mind trick advice.  My biggest surprise was that most of the book was actually fairly reasonable.  


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