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After sharing a rather harmless email funny fwd with the flower child, the other youngin’ appears with a printed copy of same. (guilty — I forwarded it). The jokes, “learn chinese in 5 min.” poke fun at the translation and you have to read them aloud. e.g. + Did you go to the beach? ……..Wai [...]

The airport lounge had a feeling of impending stampede. Even though the TV monitor fixtures that broadcast an endless loop of CNNairport news and ads visuals had been cut (a blackout is policy after an aviation disaster), word filtered via cell phones and internet browsers. With each successive and surreal strike the crowd had become [...]

Many of the media photos of Martha Stewart are from high society parties with a stock broker on her arm. For the occasion of the delivering of emails and notes and papers demanded by congress media event, she adopted a low profile look. Wearing country bib-overall jeans, big wrap around sun glasses and hair in [...]

Thumbing through a discarded Law Enforcement Technology magazine I was treated to a rare view of behind the scenes government and a social commentary. The articles promote police business while using terms and acronyms that won’t look bad in a newspaper or get them in trouble with a jury. The “Stun Gun”, for instance, is [...]

The NYPD and the NYFD suffered mightely in the September attacks. Alot of people did… Both of these agencies need to go back to work. They should not assume that they may grieve indefinately. It is not their place to appoint themselves as living monuments to the event. They should not be charity workers leveraging [...]

City of Phoenix has it all figured out. In order to curtail the folks who run the red light, they’ve installed cameras onto the overhead traffic signal. I’m going to guess that 95 percent of these are dummies (cameras not the folks). But, who can tell for sure? That’s the beauty of it. When the [...]

Southwest Air will eat their words. By antagonizing the obese, the fat, the overweight and many thin people who sympathize they will loose market share. After all, if the governments statistics are to be believed, and that this segment is in fact huge (no pun intended), they have alienated a significantmarket segment. Seems like yesterday [...]

You fin’ de raise up and get yo travel on…Middle Americans in Chicago aren’t leaving their personal vehicles for mass transit anytime soon. First impression of the Blue Line? O’hare was modern and nice looking. Not bad, this could be nice… Rosemont station? good… I was congratulating myself on how much I saved by staying [...]