Today's Tids Issue 3020
Opening Stuff:

This is one of those Winter wonderland days.
You expect at any moment you'll hear the jingle of bells and see Doctor Zhivago's sled come around the corner, spewing up bright white flakes melodically to the tune of Lara's Theme. You Wander beneath trees hung low by glistening snow. The fields are cvast and perfectly white, masked by natures icy cloak from the scars of warmth. It is a perfect day. There is just no question about that.

As we go through football withdrawal, remember that Pitchers and Catchers start throwing in four days for the Dodgers. and all teams will be out there in 11 days. Let the trade rumors begin. Summer is here. Whack!

The news about manufacturing yesterday wasn't bad enough to push the market down over 300 points. The market is looking for a correction, so brokers have something going forward other than peaks or all-time-highs for the prime stocks. I just hope my stocks are the ones corrected!

Joe Namath was old news 39 years ago, but th Now he's saying he's feeling not so hot; That it must be that concussion thing. No Joe, it might be 50 years of drinking and ingesting who knows what else under the sun. See Phillip Seymore Hoffman.

The Question:
This is "Love is in the air" season and none more-so than in Johnny Depps world. As everybody knows, the Deppster is engaged, again. Name all of his fiances since 1990.

The Headlines:
--Market's Struggling To Get Out Of Dumpster In Early Trading; Dow Moving Up Nearer +100 by Noon.
--Global Military Spending To Rise For 2-14; Russia, Middle East Lead Way IN Increased Defense Budgets.
--Insider Satya Nadella Named New CEO Of Microsoft; Stockholder factions Argue Whether Company Should Move Further Towards Business Side (66%) Away From Consumer.
--110 Million Watch Superbowl; Most In History.
--Man Shot By ex-Pat's Aaron Hernandez Shot Again Outside Hartford Club; People Who May Know Something About Hernandez Case Keep On Dying.
--RI Considering Auto Licenses For Illegal Immigrants.

In the several Tidlets about the Super Bowl yesterday, I forgot to mention the outstanding singing of the National Anthem by Renee Fleming -- one of the best ever. Some of those from the anything goes culture complained that is sounded like a funeral dirge. I say it reflected the proper elegance of the great US society.

Maybe we'll get back to the good old society..when you was far more important than me. Most of the companies advertising at the SB forsook the goofball, in the gutter, sophomoric approaches of the past several years. Most strove to contribute to a new enlightenment. Perhaps 110 million feel a little different today.

In a grocery store favored by the young and socially aware, I saw a ticket on on steak package, "Raised on 100% vegetables". That could easily be corn fed, which is traditionally the food of cattle producing the best beef. Tis is better than some pop-culture stores where a label might read -- "This steak is made from vegetables."

In case you missed it, Mayo has passed by catsup as America's leading condiment. Looks like the country's going from fries to salads.

The happy-Go-Lucky, up by her bootstraps Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor says labeling Illegal Immigrants as criminals is insulting. Say What?

The IRS is going to pay out $62.5 Million in bonuses to employees. My first question is, what for? My second question is, when did the IRS become a for profit operation. But the real issue is, what are they doing to us to get into the bonus pool? 

Joe Namath's latest fame is coming from wearing a Coyote coat at SB. Most people are trying to find ways of driving nasty coyotes out of their neighborhoods.

When I was trying to cut back on pounds-adding-stuff, I eliminated Mayo. For tuna fish I made up a little mixture of Dijon mustard, olive oil, Parmesan cheese and lemon, and it tasted pretty darn good.

An owner of French restaurant on the quite liberal East Side of Providence said she was quite pleased with the fun they had arriving at insurance policies for all after navigating the ObamaCare Web site. She said gleefully that they all her employees were properly insured and it would cost her company 30% more!. She must have had second thoughts about her geefulness, becasue in a subsequent sentence next year she said that in 2015 her employees could use the O/C computer system to buy their own insurance!

Teens who color their hair for attention must have little else going on in their lives.

The Answer:
50 year old Johnny Depp's newbie is 27 year old Amber Heard. She saying  there is a great future here, but history has a way with repeating hitself! He was actually married in 1983 to Lori Anne Allison, a make-up artist, who in fact encouraged him to get into acting! They divorced after 2 years. He almost made it to the altar with a succession of actresses starting with Sherilyn Fenn who was dumped for Jennifer Grey. But Dirty Dancin' wasn't in his heart so he moved on to Winona Ryder. At the time, he was so in love that he had "Winona Forever" tattooed on his arm. Whe they broke up he altered it to "Wino Forever". Kate Moss was next, and they quickly found incompatibility. She's till crying over it, they say. His longest relationship was with Vanessa Paradis. Their engagement began in 1998, and they have two kids. Bring on the youthful Amber, who says she can go either way, and is probably tryng out Depp fro a change after dating Tasya van Rae, a relationaship that began in 2008, and announced when after she "came out" in 2010. Winona Ryder is appalled that Depp would dump the mother of his children for a younger gal to prove his youthful manhood to his aging male pals!

I'll  be looking for songs about love leading up to V-Day. Let's start with this one (If it doesn't link, cut and paste.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD6WG7VKQzU

See you tomorrow. Buy milk and bread...and Cheeto's!