Wednesday, March 28, 2012

More Random Observations

            For your pondering pleasure please consider this batch of my Random Observations.
            All is right in the golfing world.  Tiger Woods has won a tournament.  He hadn’t won in more than two years.  And now it’s on to The Masters.  I never watched golf on TV until Tiger happened along.  I’ll be watching The Masters and rooting for Tiger.  With all of his personal faults he’s still one of the greatest athletes of all time. Worth watching.
            I have read in the business pages that auto sales will lead the way back to America’s economic recovery. Hooray.  But...do we need to see or hear a car commercial on TV and radio every two seconds? Sheesh.
            A recent poll revealed that more Americans than ever think poorly of our effort in Afghanistan. What the hell took so long?  Although If I had the opportunity I might become an Afghani warlord, with a private militia, large poppy fields, and millions in extorted America dollars.  I mean it’s worked so far for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Matiullah Khan and Mohammed Fahim and Karim Khalili, former warlords now serving as vice presidents in President Karzai’s cabinet.   You could look it up.  I might have to change my name to something like Careen Offa DaCurve.  Uh oh.  Does this thought mark me as a subversive?
            Some time ago I left a phone message for John Myer, a senior editor of the AAA magazine AAA World.  An ad extolling the virtues of booking your travel with AAA showed a couple walking hand-in-hand on a lovely beach towards the water.  Left behind on the sand were a floral lei, two pair of flip-flops and a US Passport.  I wondered in this day and age of identity theft how someone could show a passport left lying in the sand.  I never heard back from Mr. Myer.
            I still do want to give President Obama a pair of flip-flops for his birthday. He changes “official” positions more frequently than the author of the Kama Sutra.
           

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Another BEST ONE YET

Every day there are examples of things once held as constants being reworked, refined and tweaked which is why I decided to call my Blog Tweak This.  I had thought of calling it by an expression I often use when I hear an incredible story. I would say That’s The Best One Yet.  Well Tweak This will stand but here follows a news item that clearly falls into my Best One Yet category.           
I frequently come across a news item that I want to share with you but by the time I do you’ve likely heard about it already. Because I find “news items” special I choose to share them regardless of their possibly being a bit stale.
            McDonald’s recently had to pull a radio commercial and issue an apology after the commercial said that eating its new chicken bites was safer than petting a pit bull.  That of course pissed off pit bull owners who got on McDonald’s case prompting the apology. When it comes to political correctness THAT’S THE BEST ONE YET! What do the dog owners mean, that petting a pit bull is safer than eating a chicken bite? You’ve got to be *#$@%^&* me. Shame on McDonald’s for succumbing.  The assertion that petting a pit bull is not all that safe could be taken as humorous or…TRUE.
            On another note, almost every day we encounter folks who are as aptly named for their professional endeavors as can be.  This case in point comes from a news story that the U.S. Constitution appears to be losing its appeal as a model for constitutional drafters elsewhere. That’s according to a new study co-authored by a Washington University professor named David S. Law.
            I have to research whether there’s ever been a piece of legislation passed designed to quell civil disorders and whether it might have been authored by and named for a legislator named Riot so that when the law had to be invoked guilty parties could be read the Riot Act.