Have you seen that Progresso Soup commercial where a couple has just finished cleaning out the garageafter sending their last child off to college? It follows the usualcourse of Progresso commercials: A person exerts themselves thendecides to have some soup to replenish. (I know after exhaustingmyself the first thing I always want is a nice hot bowl of flavoredwater.) They go to the kitchen, grab a can of Campbell'sSoup , and begin warming it ...
Have you seen that Progresso Soup commercial where a couple has just finished cleaning out the garageafter sending their last child off to college? It follows the usualcourse of Progresso commercials: A person exerts themselves thendecides to have some soup to replenish. (I know after exhaustingmyself the first thing I always want is a nice hot bowl of flavoredwater.) They go to the kitchen, grab a can of Campbell'sSoup , and begin warming it ...
Welcome to Political Thoughts which is mainly an aggregation of mypolitical and current events articles from my blog RandomThoughts . (You may be sensing a titling trend here.) I needed a way tonarrowly define my articles so I could get them listed in blogdirectories. My main blog is too eclectic. What single category wouldit fit? So, for the specialization obsessed there is now Politica...
The "clearance"aisles and shelves at Wal-Mart should be required browsing for anymarketer, fledgling or established. It's painfully obvious why someproducts fail. So obvious I wonder why the manufactures didn't seethem in the proposal stage. Take a few examples from a recentshopping jaunt. I've alreadywritten about howbad TV reception is here , so here is an interesting product: acombination VHF/...
The "clearance"aisles and shelves at Wal-Mart should be required browsing for anymarketer, fledgling or established. It's painfully obvious why someproducts fail. So obvious I wonder why the manufactures didn't seethem in the proposal stage. Take a few examples from a recentshopping jaunt. I've alreadywritten about howbad TV reception is here , so here is an interesting product: acombination VHF/...
As I watched theLakers self-destruct during tonight's game, I reflected on lastweek's Jeopardy champion and what he had that L.A.'s team lost. Last week'sJeopardy champion was fantastic. He cleared categories, he seemed toanswer more than half the board single-handedly, he racked up suchhigh scores that by the end his opponents couldn't have touched himno matter what happened. It was one of the mo...
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Ronald Reagan I cannot addanything to the warts-and-all portrait of Ronald Reagan that willemerge in the days to come as he lays in state and is finally laid torest at his presidentiallibrary in Simi Valley, California, just off the Ronald ReaganFreeway. Many blogs, articles, television shows and d...
What is wrong withpeople? Don't they even want to be taken seriously? Here aresome comments I've seen made recently (two right here on JU): "Bush is a c*nt." [ed. -- "vagina"] "I'd vote for my dog before I'd vote for Bush." "Bush is the most disgusting human being who ever lived." Those last twoboggle the mind. Do the people that make these kinds of statementsreally be...
As long as I'm in anapologetic mode .... I am seriouslydyslexic. It gets worse when my chronic illness (with itsmental-faculties destroying effects) enters its chronic phase. (As ithas been most of this year.) I've noticed some of my comments aregetting spotty at best. Take thisone : For all you know you were just a pawn in some devious rift she was play...
I hate namedroppers. It goes way back to an online writing group I was involvedwith in the late 80's. We had this one woman who everything she saidwas about someone famous. She couldn't write a sentence withoutincluding at least one well-known name. Every post was... "So I got up this morning and rushed off to have breakfast with Tom Wolfe. The sparkling conversation only pinnacled when the distinguished gentleman at the next table turne...
Even as they tryto marginalize him as a joke, Democrats clearly fear Nader. Theycontinue to blame him for Al Gore's loss. (Maybe it was Al Gore'sfault that he didn't inspire more voters. Just a thought. *) Nader hasproblems. The press is largely ignoring him. Without even the lowlypolitical machine of a 3rd party he is strugglingto get on ballots and raise money. One of the big questions whenh...
I noticed I hadthree different ideas for "troll" related articles laying around.That would be a bit excessive. Instead I'll just briefly comment onthem in a single article. (Thus denying myself three times thepoints. Maybe I'm not such a point ho after all.) Finally a Use for the Troll Feature! Yes, I havestarted "troll buttoning" people. Some people just deserve it. When aperson's entire "contr...
Two stories onlyrelated by the military. One of the Army'sleast known and more peculiar perks just may be freeplastic surgery. The Army surgeons who perform reconstructivesurgery on wartime casualties need someone to practice on. Entersoldiers, veterans, and families of the Army, Reserves, and NationalGuard. According to Dr. Bob Lyons, Army Chief of Plastic Surgery,they can offer any kind of cos...
Two stories onlyrelated by the military. One of the Army'sleast known and more peculiar perks just may be freeplastic surgery. The Army surgeons who perform reconstructivesurgery on wartime casualties need someone to practice on. Entersoldiers, veterans, and families of the Army, Reserves, and NationalGuard. According to Dr. Bob Lyons, Army Chief of Plastic Surgery,they can offer any kind of cos...
For those who might not have seen it, Karen Hobbs hasa blog where she pondered whatyour ScreenName says about you. Where did it come from, what doesit mean, how does it relate to you as a person. Quite a few of yourfellow JoeUsers have left comments answering the question. I'm goingto do so here instead. That way my regular readers will get to seeit. (And I'll also get at least 3 times the points. Ain't I astinker?) (ScreenName is really an ...