Wednesday Dottles
1. Two more days till Williamsburg.
2. POTUS is coming to Maryland today. He'll bloviate at the Naval Academy about why critics of the Iraq war are unamerican then meet with Robert Ehrlich (Maryland's BCD governor) and Michael Steele (Maryland's black lt. gov. running for senate) so they can sniff his farts. But as Thomas Friedman recently opined in the NYT: "It's not just that [Bush] doesn't seem to be having any fun. It's that he seems to be totally out of ideas relevant to the nation's future."
3. Unless they're baked in a pie, apples just don't do it for me. Delicious apples aren't.
4. Anyone else creeped out by this media-driven countdown to the 1,000th capital punishment victim? I'm surprised we don't have a nationwide office pool going. In all honesty, the older I get the less I like my state committing murder on my behalf. I think we should just stop at 999.
5. Every time I visit, I'm blown away by the writing and photography at Fragments from Floyd. Check it out.
6. Signs are acorns will be abundant this fall.
7. Each year it's harder for me to think up what I want for Christmas but people keep asking.
8. The JAMA will publish an article today warning that use of Vitalis and Brylcreem as a teenager leads to near total hair loss in your early 50s. No exceptions even if you only used it for a year or two. Sure glad I didn't use that stuff. Feel sorry for anyone who did.
9. Two Gilbert Stuart portraits of George Washington are to be auctioned today. (See 1 and 2.) Only $10M a piece. Portraits by Stuart are part of the reason Washington is viewed as stuffy and wooden by Americans today and not as the great man he was. James Peale did a portrait that shows more of Washington's character and vigor.
10. The Census Bureau reports that Howard County is the country's 8th richest county with a median income of $79,455. I would have thought it was higher. Seriously. $80K incomes can't buy the houses they're building around here. Find your county.
11. Can the country just stop for one, big, heartfelt "Awwww......" so we get it out of our system? I'd like to move on.
12. The government of Canada collapsed Monday because of corruption and I think 4 people in this country noticed.
13. It's been nearly 4 years since Santa Claus ran into me with his car. I'm wondering if the time is ripe for telling the tale?
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4) I was a supporter. I'm totally ambivalent about it now.
5) Been there, done that.
8) Who's the JAMA? Well, now I know what caused the hair loss. I was thinking all these years that it was masturbation that caused hair loss. And blindness. I wonder if Vitalis caused my deteriorating sight. Doubt it. Probably that other thing did.
13) Please
8. JAMA = Journal of the American Medical Association.
13. Appreciate the vote. I'm still cogitating. This could be a story for which the world is not yet prepared.
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Well! This explains why I'm getting PlugsNDottleite visitors from around the planet and across the solar system. None yet from the outer Oort Belt, but I'm expecting them. Thanks for kind words! NannoooNannoo.