Little things to love

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,179 

Local is better: 

 

 

Any time I see on a food package, “Made with butter”, I’m interested. 

 

Do I see signs of the pendulum swinging away from society soft and adding little back of the lost discipline and responsibility. 

 

One of the most asked questions these days is, “Have you found anything good to watch on Netflix?” 

 

Today is National Smile Day, just in case to you are feeling a little happiness in your heart, and you want to burst out and dance a little. It's legal today to be deliriously and delightfully crazy. In fact it is encouraged. 

 

The Question: 

What are the ten best movies about secret affairs? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Wall Street Unable To Enjoy Moment of Prosperity; Markets Look To Negative Day As Oil Proces Rises; Key I Investors Still Unsure Of Results Of Fed Tightening. 

--China Expected to Ease Covid Lockdown Restrictions, Stop Purchase of Russia Crude And Petro Products. 

FDA Issues Strong Warning On Strawberries Sold At Several Stores; investigating A Multistate Outbreak Of Hepatitis A infections.  

--Ukraine's Donbas Split Down The Middle; Russia Becoming More Aggressive With More Powerful Weapons; EU Agrees To More Aggressive Oil Ban. 

--Uvaldi 911 Dispatchers Show Records Of Kids Still Alive Calling. 

--Trump Aide Navarro Subpoenaed to Testify At Jan 6 Hearings.  

 

*Stores are Aldi. HEB. Kroger. Safeway. Sprouts Farmers Market. Trader Joe’s. Walmart. Weis Markets and WinCo Foods 

 

Here’s the kind of presidents we used to have: Dwight Eisenhower said, “Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.” And people wonder why the Fifties were so great. 

 

I was thinking the other day, exactly what has social media done to improve society. It has certainly been an element that divides it. It definitely seems like it has made people angrier. And kids more nervous about being segregated instantly. We do know that maybe the most positive contribution is making early stock owners really wealthy. 

 

There is one thing about baldness, it’s neat 

 

Tickets for the Celtic’s first two Boston Gardon NBA Championship games are going for $4K to 20 K. And the stocks ae plummeting because of inflation!  

 

A man disguised himself as an older woman in a wheelchair solely to get close to the Mona Leisa and mock it by throwing a cake at it in the name of protecting the environment. And knowing the intrepid global press would stumble of over themselves trying to be first to report the nonsenses. I don’t get the connection -- Leonardo and Lisa - Cake - Environment. He said, "Think of the Earth! There are people who are destroying the Earth! Think about it. Artists tell you: think of the Earth. That's why I did this." Needless to say, the authorities brought him to a psychiatric ward.  

 

Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes. — P.J. O’Rourke 

 

One of te more frustrating things in life is trying to get the last spec of s dirt into a dustpan.  

 

Yesterday I wrote about good regular people working well with other good regular people and of zealots commandeering reasonable thought processes. And now we see one man out of nowhere grab the spotlight whiel anotehr seven plus billion live gheir loves day by say.  

 

The big news on Fox this morning was that “Dannika Partrick had her breast implants removed and she couldn't be happier.” Isn’t it always nice to know that America is making so much societal progress. Think of the collective national tension release when the DiCaprio/Hurd trial ends. 

 

I hired a commercial house cleaner. She only cleans during commercials. 

 

The Answer: 

Here in alphabetical order are what Vanity Fair Considers are the best love stor movies ever. They don’t include romcoms. They Are The Age of innocence 1993, The Americanization of Emily 1964, Before Sunrise - Before Sunset - Before Midnight 1995 – 2004 – 2013, Brief Encounter 1945, Brokeback Mountain 2004, Carman Jones 1954, Casablanca 1942, The English Patient 1996, Ghost 1992, Holiday 1938, It Happened One Night 1934, Long Hot Summer 1958, : Love Affair 1939, An Affair to Remember 1957, Love Story 1970, Notorious 1946, Now, Voyager 1945, An Officer and a Gentleman 1982, The Remains of the Day 1993, Roman Holiday 1853, Say Anything 1989, Sense and Sensibility 1995, The Shop Around the Corner 1940, The Way We Were 1973, Working Girl 1988. Lists like this will always be questioned. Here’s what the list maker Laura Jacobs says: “Movies that reach the romantic pantheon often have more at stake than a trip to the altar and don’t always end up happily... diving into the deeper imaginative realms of high Romanticism, a movement enamored of mystery and nature untamed... These tales frequently take place on a journey where desire is set against duty, and where love alters destiny." 

 

Hey, it’s the national day for broad happy smiles, right? 

 

The rotation of Earth really makes my day.