IN THE NEWS

First things first, right? Once again Mother Nature has us scratching our heads and thinking, “you fickle ole lady, what in hell is up with you?”

Come on, we go from 59 degrees to 26 degrees within an hours time span and then, just to insure we are watching, she spits out snow too! By morning the temp was a lovely 1.6 degrees but she pleases us with sunshine! Now this is how we shall end February and that is that!

You know there’s a saying I used when teaching, “Stupid Is Forever, Ignorance I can Fix,” and baby, we got a lot of stupid around! Here let me give ya a few looks at stupidity:

• You may not know this young woman, but she is very attractive, has a great voice and overall just a sweetheart – ya I’m talking about Rihanna. Now her boyfriend beat the living crap out of her and the whole world was shocked and immediately was thinking, “Chris baby you are done, no more of your beating on our girl, get lost sucker.” But wait, he assaulted her on Feb 8th and now they are back together? I told ya; stupid is forever, ignorance we can fix. Ya fool, keep hanging with this woman-beater, sounds like a fun relationship if you like being hurt!

• Now this one really is stupid. Dublin, Ireland is suggesting that when nature calls at 30,000 feet, you’ll need $1.40 to pee and get this; you need this exact amount, no change available! Now get this, installing pay toilets would lower ticket costs and make flying, somehow, easier for all. Yes, I told ya, stupid is on the rise! Can you imagine the indignation and potty humor this suggested when announced? Damn it had to be a slow news day, right?

• Let’s get a tad closer to home. It seems the village of Potsdam is once again going after our “toilet-artist” and plans to haul his ass into court if he fails to clean up his yard. Now the last time this was thrown out because of an error in filing or some such crap, so is “stupid” correcting this error this go around? In the meantime Robar just keeps smiling and doesn’t seem the least bit concerned….gotta love his attitude!

• In honor of Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets, Denny's is offering a new breakfast meal: You get fourteen eggs, no sausage, and the guy next to you has to pay the bill!

Yes, life is good and hey, this is the last day of February. Can you dig it, tomorrow we begin another month – mighty March.

Here’s your brain exercise for today:

Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.

[remember those damn algebra classes? Or how about diagramming sentences, those were my absolutely faves!]