Today's Tids Issue 2,978
Opening Stuff:
"After the game, the King and the Pawn go in the same box."
One of my new pet peeves is the Boston sports writers and talkers who are urging the Celtics to tank the season to get the #1 draft pick. We have a enough losers this country without promoting more. We have people who have begun to realize that unemployment is good with benefits after losing a job paying better than working. We have the just completed Global Math and Scinece Competion where the US High School team placed out of the top 20! Say it isn't so Thomas Edison. What ever happened to excellence and striving , even when the odds are against you. We need it for the transitioning Celtics who should be learning about how to win. We need to inspire kids that learning is the most important activity they can do now...not being excellent at answering the next Instagram. We need to move back from superficiality as a goal, to voraciousness forthe most treasured attribute of all, knowledge. Losing is only important when you are overweight. But, nobody seems to care anymore. Its crazy.
Joan of Arc is not Noah's wife.
The recent fiasco with the development of the ObamaCare website software reminds me of a quote from John Glenn just sent in by a good reader: "As I hurtled through space, one thought kept coming to mind. Every part on this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder."
The Question:
Marisa Tomei has quietly made a lot of pretty good movies throughout her career. Name five of them. Bonus: What does "Batting average on balls-in-play" mean?
The Headlines:
--President Obama Says ACA Is Working; Insurers Warn Of Problems From Surge.
--Pope Obama To Speak Today On Disparity Between Rich And Poor.
--Karsei refusing To Sign Pact Unless US Meets His Demands.
--Uncle, Who Oabama Lived With But Said He Never Met, Is Free To Stay In US Depsite Breaking Basic Immigration Law.
--Man Survives Three Days In Air Pocket At Bottom Of the Atlantic.
--Markets Looking For Direction.
Snake lovers Unite, Department:
This week the US military dropped from helicopters 2,000 dead mice hanging from little paper parachutes. Prior to the jump they had been pumped up with the active ingredient of Tylenol in order to poison and kill brown tree snakes...and save the exotic birds of Guam! We have way too many bureaucrats with nothing to do.
The craziness continues with a new National Highway Transportation Safety Admin's test of people driving along, doing nothing, until they are pulled over and intimidated by police into "voluntarily giving up their DNA and assorted other personal information. It never feels voluntary when you are caught in the web of big law.
These Honda commercials with Michael Bolton singing are the oddest of the year. He looks like a hologram, a badly Photoshopped image totally devoid of personality, oblivious to where he is with absolute no connection to any human in the scene, or even a car. Maybe I'm missing something.
Every restaurant has to have a burger these days. it's just the way people eat, because dining out is now far from the special occasion days of yore. The recently flailing Darden Corporation has introduced burgers at their Olive Garden and Red Lobster places. The white table cloth establishments are going the gourmet burger route faster than you can say Moo. Of course, along the way they are bastardizing the basic burger as chefs go berserk creating gastronomic monsters. I won't be surprised to find a butternut squash burger some day soon. For me it's always a medium rare burger with Swiss, American or cheddar. The only difference now is that I have to pay $12.95 to remove all of the extraneous crap to form my basic.
Jacoby Elsbury was my very favorite player, until last night when he descended into hell.
RI may have been small potatoes but it was the first shot across the bow that may explode into the new US Civil war. Now with the judge approving the Detroit bankruptcy and Illinois approving a new law to dramatically cut back on public employee pensions, you can bet unions will be rallying the troops everywhere. This war is for all the popcorn, and cola too. One of the problems is that with the explosion of Federal spending there is a misconception that there are no limits of available cash. But state, city and town management brings everything back into perspective. There are credit card limits there, just like in every household. But everything is a little nutty, isn't it. How out of whack is it that the Fed is subsidizing to the tune of $85 Bil a month Wall Street behemoths who overextended their credit cards decades ago. We have all of these hypocirises which fuel a growing anger and disbelief, pitting brother and sister an aginst brother and sister, because big brother got in the way, got too big and eliminated common sense and restraint from our national vocabulary.
The Answer:
Marisa Tomei leaped upon the American entertainments scene when a little known movie became a popular favorite mainly because of her -- My Cousin Vinny. Some of her other films have been What Women Want, Anger Management, Unhook the Stars, Slums of Beverly Hills and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. She also recieved Academy Award Nominations for In the Bedroom and The Wrestler. Bonus: I'm serious, what does Batting average on ball in play mean? It 's one of those new hip baseball stats bandied around and I have no clue. Oh, you think the Tidster owes you an answer? Wait a minute, I'll look it up...Ok, first it is abreviated BABIP! You figure it out using this:
Got it? All experts -- lawyers, Professional managers, doctors -- create their own language so they can be paid to interpret
it. That's why we don't have to be competitive in science and math any longer. We just create illusions.
Get ready for this: There is serious discussion in the White House for an ObamaEd (Ucation) similar to ObamaCare... in other words another transfer of wealth only this time for education. Oops, we still have the basic problem. People have to want to learn.
I think this quote from David Letterman pretty much sums up the state of our nation mere inches away from a padded cell, 238 years after the shot heard round the world: "America is the only country where a significant proportion of the country thinks that professional wrestling is real and the landing on the moon was fake."
"After the game, the King and the Pawn go in the same box."
One of my new pet peeves is the Boston sports writers and talkers who are urging the Celtics to tank the season to get the #1 draft pick. We have a enough losers this country without promoting more. We have people who have begun to realize that unemployment is good with benefits after losing a job paying better than working. We have the just completed Global Math and Scinece Competion where the US High School team placed out of the top 20! Say it isn't so Thomas Edison. What ever happened to excellence and striving , even when the odds are against you. We need it for the transitioning Celtics who should be learning about how to win. We need to inspire kids that learning is the most important activity they can do now...not being excellent at answering the next Instagram. We need to move back from superficiality as a goal, to voraciousness forthe most treasured attribute of all, knowledge. Losing is only important when you are overweight. But, nobody seems to care anymore. Its crazy.
Joan of Arc is not Noah's wife.
The recent fiasco with the development of the ObamaCare website software reminds me of a quote from John Glenn just sent in by a good reader: "As I hurtled through space, one thought kept coming to mind. Every part on this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder."
The Question:
Marisa Tomei has quietly made a lot of pretty good movies throughout her career. Name five of them. Bonus: What does "Batting average on balls-in-play" mean?
The Headlines:
--President Obama Says ACA Is Working; Insurers Warn Of Problems From Surge.
--Pope Obama To Speak Today On Disparity Between Rich And Poor.
--Karsei refusing To Sign Pact Unless US Meets His Demands.
--Uncle, Who Oabama Lived With But Said He Never Met, Is Free To Stay In US Depsite Breaking Basic Immigration Law.
--Man Survives Three Days In Air Pocket At Bottom Of the Atlantic.
--Markets Looking For Direction.
Snake lovers Unite, Department:
This week the US military dropped from helicopters 2,000 dead mice hanging from little paper parachutes. Prior to the jump they had been pumped up with the active ingredient of Tylenol in order to poison and kill brown tree snakes...and save the exotic birds of Guam! We have way too many bureaucrats with nothing to do.
The craziness continues with a new National Highway Transportation Safety Admin's test of people driving along, doing nothing, until they are pulled over and intimidated by police into "voluntarily giving up their DNA and assorted other personal information. It never feels voluntary when you are caught in the web of big law.
These Honda commercials with Michael Bolton singing are the oddest of the year. He looks like a hologram, a badly Photoshopped image totally devoid of personality, oblivious to where he is with absolute no connection to any human in the scene, or even a car. Maybe I'm missing something.
Every restaurant has to have a burger these days. it's just the way people eat, because dining out is now far from the special occasion days of yore. The recently flailing Darden Corporation has introduced burgers at their Olive Garden and Red Lobster places. The white table cloth establishments are going the gourmet burger route faster than you can say Moo. Of course, along the way they are bastardizing the basic burger as chefs go berserk creating gastronomic monsters. I won't be surprised to find a butternut squash burger some day soon. For me it's always a medium rare burger with Swiss, American or cheddar. The only difference now is that I have to pay $12.95 to remove all of the extraneous crap to form my basic.
Jacoby Elsbury was my very favorite player, until last night when he descended into hell.
RI may have been small potatoes but it was the first shot across the bow that may explode into the new US Civil war. Now with the judge approving the Detroit bankruptcy and Illinois approving a new law to dramatically cut back on public employee pensions, you can bet unions will be rallying the troops everywhere. This war is for all the popcorn, and cola too. One of the problems is that with the explosion of Federal spending there is a misconception that there are no limits of available cash. But state, city and town management brings everything back into perspective. There are credit card limits there, just like in every household. But everything is a little nutty, isn't it. How out of whack is it that the Fed is subsidizing to the tune of $85 Bil a month Wall Street behemoths who overextended their credit cards decades ago. We have all of these hypocirises which fuel a growing anger and disbelief, pitting brother and sister an aginst brother and sister, because big brother got in the way, got too big and eliminated common sense and restraint from our national vocabulary.
The Answer:
Marisa Tomei leaped upon the American entertainments scene when a little known movie became a popular favorite mainly because of her -- My Cousin Vinny. Some of her other films have been What Women Want, Anger Management, Unhook the Stars, Slums of Beverly Hills and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. She also recieved Academy Award Nominations for In the Bedroom and The Wrestler. Bonus: I'm serious, what does Batting average on ball in play mean? It 's one of those new hip baseball stats bandied around and I have no clue. Oh, you think the Tidster owes you an answer? Wait a minute, I'll look it up...Ok, first it is abreviated BABIP! You figure it out using this:
Got it? All experts -- lawyers, Professional managers, doctors -- create their own language so they can be paid to interpret
it. That's why we don't have to be competitive in science and math any longer. We just create illusions.Get ready for this: There is serious discussion in the White House for an ObamaEd (Ucation) similar to ObamaCare... in other words another transfer of wealth only this time for education. Oops, we still have the basic problem. People have to want to learn.
I think this quote from David Letterman pretty much sums up the state of our nation mere inches away from a padded cell, 238 years after the shot heard round the world: "America is the only country where a significant proportion of the country thinks that professional wrestling is real and the landing on the moon was fake."
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