Ever seen the Bugs Bunny cartoon when you were a kid where he sells the Brooklyn Bridge?

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07302008/news/regionalnews/crisis_puts_ny_in_sell_hell_122211.htm

By the way.  My opinion.  Never sell your assets.

Aside from the bastardization of the English word (K's for C's) this article proves once and again that people can be very cruel when they close their minds to the truth.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07252008/news/regionalnews/krazy_kat_got_me_kommitted_121467.htm

As a former cat breeder, I thank God this one man was vindicated by the truth.  Can you imagine if the cat was never found. 

Think of the money spent to arrest and prosecute and suddenly you consider... Should we arrest someone for taking .42 cents from a mall fountain?   Hey... I'm not saying it wasn't a crime but so is spitting on the sidewalk in some states.  My father always advised me, "Son, you gotta pick your battles." That logic is not wasted on justice if you ask me.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/jul/22/bonita-man-arrested-after-allegedly-stealing-42-ce/

It is rare perhaps... today I am without words.  You just have to read it for yourself and try to wrap your head around it.

This is not so much a stupid headline as it is high-lighting the stupidity of what is becoming of our world.   Ignore it... one day when it happens to you, you'll understand.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035315/Father-branded-pervert--photographing-children-public-park.html

You don't have to read the entire article just to get the logic behind this claim.

Global warming may increase kidney stones: researchers

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080714210823.ys7a8mb8&show_article=1

What is especially sad is that a reporter considered this "newsworthy".  You know, my youngest son passed gas in the hallway this morning instead of at the breakfast table.  I'd like to submit that as news today.  It's just as valuable and credible.

Reading the article there are so many sides to debate, but frankly it just isn't worth it.  It's stupid.  Stupid news for these modern times we live in where actual news is lost.

Nope... I couldn't resist... take for instance the comments  posted to the article.  One person was astute enough to catch just ONE reason alone that researchers didn't consider; one I know to be true as I lived in the south.  "They drink larger amounts of sweet tea in the stone belt of the south. Large amounts of tea are know to cause kidney stones."

I struggle as a sane and rational man when I consistently read tripe like this. 

Thank God for comments like this one: "Let's look at the bright side of this whole thing. For every new kidney stone patient we will have one less frost bite patient."  I've made a new best friend.

I'll close with this last comment which sums it up for me, "I would find it even more funny if we were not trying to use money to solve a problem that doesn't even exist."

I'm sure if I tried hard enough I could get my local government to waste money on mirrors to reflect light around a very old and large tree in my backyard to grow grass under it as a playground is there without grass for the children to run ...   more »

I find this really amusing.  Do women really care that a sign has the word men in it? 

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/09/men_working_signs_atlanta.html

The Editor of Pink Magazine Cynthia Good allegedly defaced a Men At Work sign by spray painting "wo" in front of the word men.  Good says "It is a little bit bias to say 'Men Working, women are working too." So approximately 50 signs ranging from $22.00 to $144.00 each are going to be replaced.

I agree Men At Work is a misnomer, but the metaphorical extension of this term is by no way meant as an insult to women.  What's next a ban on the phrase.. "Are we not men?"  LOL  My point to all this minutia getting stirred up is a case of Americans with far too much time on their hands.  Look at me.  Some say I blog too much.  But things are never always what they appear. Did you know 95% of my articles are written at night after my kids are in bed and I have free time?  I set my articles to post later.  It works especially well when we go on trips and I want to give the illusion of being home.   But I digress.  It's good to have a blog where you don't have to answer to an editor for drifting off topic. LOL

So who is?  The French.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820358,00.html?cnn=yes

The poll actually points out that Americans are the biggest spending and biggest tippers.  It also points out that Americans are no longer traveling but the article above doesn't dwell on that.  Instead it rationalizes that Americans travel less so our budget to spend is greater.  You buying this?  With gas prices sky high, our dollar worth garbage overseas and our spending power down due to our economic woes, the rest of the world can get used to less Americans traveling abroad. 

This article takes great effort in rationalizing that the French get such high quality service at home, they expect it abroad. 

While that may be true... the fact is the article does all it can to rationalize why the French scored poorest in the poll.

Here is my take.  The French are no worse than any of us.   When we have money the lower classes of our culture can travel and inevitably expose the world to our less refined side.  That can be an American, an Englishman, Frenchman, Dutch, you name it.  

When I see anyone anywhere that is a tourist, I don't think much of them.  I get it.  They are not at home and our country is something to compared and examined and either appreciated or ridiculed by its differences.   The only tourist I have a problem with are New Yorkers, those obnoxious bastards.

That was a joke. Please put your pen in protest down. :)