Cat Ladies

 

We’ve heard the stories before; “Old Lady Found Dead Suffocated by Cats.” Law enforcement agents are probably getting used to clearing out trailers full of cats by now. But what an interesting phenomenon. It’s never turtles or gerbils, and it’s never just five or ten. It’s always hundreds of cats!

It took three hours for about 15 masked workers and police officers to remove 118 cats from a couple’s reeking home in the Lowry Grove Mobile Home Park in St. Anthony on Tuesday.

Another dozen or so cats couldn’t be captured because they were hiding in mounds of dolls and debris in the trailer and will have to be live-trapped, said Keith Streff, senior investigator of the Animal Humane Society in Golden Valley. One cat escaped and three were left with the couple, the limit permitted by city ordinance.

This was from our local paper, and what’s unwritten here is that this couple had 72 cats removed from their home in 2003. 

Let me point out something you may have missed; these 15 police officers could not retrieve a dozen cats because they were hiding in MOUNDS OF DOLLS! Read that again. Think about that. How many dolls would it take to prevent a team of 15 police officers from capturing twelve cats? I heard that these dolls were everywhere. The police found them frozen in the freezer!

They’re looking into mental illness, but it’s got to be something more. You would think that one of them would say, “Honey, I can’t fill the ice cube tray unless I take out a few of these dolls.” Something else is going on here, and as you think about reasons it becomes less funny and more pathetic, and really, just sad.

Good News The Recession is Over!

I just heard the news this afternoon. The recession is over and the key to it’s demise was in our minds all along. It turns out that hiding in our homes and shielding our money was really what was precipitating this recession. Our fear sent the markets crashing and made banks weary of lending money. The media were scaring us under our beds and businesses were cutting jobs in case we listened to them. Well good thing we stopped being afraid or this thing could have dragged on and on. So if you hear people on the street saying “Oh, I can’t in this economy.” or “I wonder when the recession is over?” Tell them the news, “It IS over!” And it will be.

Guest Post: “Ironic” T-shirts

Here’s a post from my ever-bitter friend J. Viese. Thanks!

“Ironic” T- Shirts. Oh my Lord!  When is this going to end?

Do you remember when it seemed like reality TV was finally on the respirator and execs. had their communal hand on the plug; then Laguna Beach and it’s unholy offspring hit the air and brought it all back worse then ever?

That seems to be where we are with these definition-busting “Ironic” tees.

The NHL

 

Do NHL players need these?

I read this week that the NHL was thinking about calling penalties on players who slide in front of a shooting puck. The league is looking for ways to increase scoring and thus, they believe, popularity. They tried this a few years ago by changing some rules and the sizes of goalie pads. They believe that the reason people don’t watch the NHL is because there just isn’t enough scoring. Maybe, they should look at the world’s most popular sport. Soccer games often end in 0 – 0 ties and the fans still are howling and cheering when it all ends. Scoring is not the problem, but here are some…

Woodbury Logo

 

The poor city of Woodbury. Not really in the city, not really a suburb. It’s just a place you drive through to get to something important. On your drive you’ll always see signs or watertowers that display maybe the worst logo ever. I’m not going to get into it that much, but not only is that d & b too close together, but someone decided to have something emiting from the top…poor Woodbury

Great Designs: Automatic Bathrooms

 

My elbows are the dirtiest part of my body. I use them to touch the nastiest things around. If I spill something or need to wipe off my seat, I’ll always use my handy elbow to scrub it up. When I’m in a public restroom I look like a doctor or a T-Rex walking around with my elbows stuck out trying to get paper towels out of the dispenser. I know I’m not the only one out there. Look around and you’ll see us, we’re the ones with long sleeves on a hot summer day…

Debt

There is a lot of talk about change this election and how these two guys are going to be reformers or mavericks. I believe in them and I am hopeful, but when the new president walks into the oval office there are going to be some IOU’s on his desk that total more than $1,500,000,000,000. Becoming president is not like baking a cake. You don’t have nice clean kitchen and a fridge full of wonderfull ingredients. What you have is what the last guy left in the fridge for you. In our case W left it empty and the neighbors are knocking on the door for their cups of sugar back.

College

 

A lot has been made of the price of gas, food and health insurance recently. But I saw this graph on CNN and I thought it deserved more attention. It was shocking to see this and read elsewhere that college increases are four times the rate of inflation. The weird part is that the price of college doesn’t follow normal economics. The higher the price, the more parents will want to send their child there. “Well it must be good,” they’ll say. Public universities also baffle me with their increases. How on earth can the price of a university jump 439%? What could possibly drive the costs up that much? It’s not breaking news that the cost of higher education is out of control, and actually that’s not really what I wanted to talk about anyway. I’m not questioning college or even it’s soaring price. I’m wondering if it’s time to question whether it’s worth it.

 

Navy Blue

After arriving to work a few weeks ago, someone stopped me in the hall and asked, “Did you bike here?” “No. Why?” I said. The man just pointed to my left pant leg which had gotten tucked into my black sock. I quickly un-tucked it and then noticed the sock wasn’t black…it was navy blue! I had two different socks on. The guy was already walking away, but I’m sure he noticed that too. He just had pity on me, I’m sure he had been there before. Who hasn’t? Everyone has mixed up a navy blue sock with a black one or wore navy blue pants with a black belt. There are endless combinations. Well, there’s at least three, but the point is that navy blue does more harm than good.

CROX

Now, I have no beef with this shoe whatsoever. I’ve put a pair on and they were very comfortable. The poor design is not with the shoe, but with the share holders of this company.  I always say that the stock market is gambling for the educated. A few stocks however, cannot claim intelligent investors and CROX is one of them.