Browsing All Posts published on »May, 2011«

Boomer World News

May 9, 2011 by

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Boomers who need something to be alarmed about other than the 101 year old Chinese woman who is growing horns on her forehead can choose from the following:  New research finds significant facial acne can persist well into adulthood, according to www.webmd.com.  When informed of this, a group of unnamed Boomers said, “This isn’t exactly […]

Young American Wisdom

May 7, 2011 by

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Lucky me. The author of a new blog, www.youngamericanwisdom.com, commented on my post and so I checked her out.  She quotes her kids, then riffs about the quote.  This is a brilliant idea for a blog, and she does it so well. Check her out. (Note: I have received no compensation for this endorsement.  Damn. )

The Person Whisperer

May 7, 2011 by

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  I’ve been sick for the past few days.  My vocalizations have become quite unique.  If Donald Trump’s hair could talk, this is the voice it would have.  I do a lot of whispering, so as to protect pregnant women and small children.  Here’s what I discovered: Whisper, and the world whispers with you.  Reveal […]

Foreign Accent Syndrome

May 5, 2011 by

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I have just been informed of something out there that is waiting to strike me down.  Along with global warming, snakehead fish, killer bees, the IRS, and Donald Trump, I now fear FOREIGN ACCENT SYNDROME.  According to the Today Show, Karen Butler, a woman from Oregon (Oregon, for god’s sake) went in for routine oral surgery […]

How to Live Forever

May 4, 2011 by

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Newsweek has an article called “How to Live Forever.”  In spite of that intriguing title, the article isn’t about living with your children or in the nursing home until the universe is finished being the universe and moves on to being something else. If everyone really could live forever, it would bring up other issues.  Like […]

Osama Bin Laden: The Expose

May 2, 2011 by

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It is only now that Osama Bin Laden is finally dead, that certain questions can be answered:  What’s up with the woman’s clothes thing?  Reports have established that Osama Bin Laden regularly went about disguised as a woman.  As he was bearded and he is believed to have been somewhere between 6’4” and 6’6”, it […]