The other day it was mentioned in my geezer class that people who take a stand -- be it on abortion, gay rights or whatever -- can expect to pay a price. Maybe I should take a stand, perhaps against loudmouthed Fox News commentators or maybe the tiny minority of people in motorized wheelchairs or other mini-vehicles who feel it is all right to be rude while improperly cutting cut in front of you in line. Ah, but if I did that I would pay the price of losing perhaps half my readers. (What's half of zero, anyway?)
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Playboy really should get rid of the monthly page that features several photos of Hugh Hefner looking like a wax dummy.
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As mentioned in an Arlo & Janis comic strip some time back, life is too short to wash cars.
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Why is it that nearly every U.S.-written feature about Canada seems to have "eh?" in the headline or lead sentence? When writing about Americans, Canadian writers don't automatically put in "like, yuh know."
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There are plenty of social networking pages, but this is one of the few antisocial networking ones!
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