I remember in my younger days driving through the country, and frequently experiencing brief sensations of weightlessness as we crested a hill in the car.

That seldom, if ever, happens anymore.

Why not? My guess is better roads.

- Sue

Okay. It seems that Roger Clemens is in trouble with Congress. He lied to them (allegedly) about taking steroids or something -- at least, I think what the flap is all about.

My question is, why is Congress involved with baseball? If the MLB has a problem with ol' Roger, they'll surely deal with it. If his team has a problem, they can handle it.

I'm sure there's something that I'm missing, but I'll be damned if I can figure out why Congress has a dog in this fight.

Over the years, I've met a few schoolteachers who absolutely did not impress me with their ability to spell, write a coherent sentence, or do simple math. How can a person graduate from college without these abilities?

So, at work yesterday, I needed to look up a destination's address. I used Google. The place that we're supposed to take the passengers is a charter school in a Dallas suburb.

On their website, there were various "ratings" of this school, with comments from people who chose to do the ratings. I copied this one direct from the website:

cite: My daugther has went to Life School Lancaster for three the day they open Shakayera was there. I love the school it is the best school for my daughter I love the teachers as well as the staff. I am also a teacher for Head Starrt and want only the best for my cbild and this school is the best for her.

I suppose I could overlook an obvious typo or three (daugther, cbild, Starrt). But the sentence structure! The grammar! The verb usage! The punctuation (or lack thereof)! The fact that this person would type such a thing and post it on the Internet for the world to see, and obviously didn't proofread it at all!

It is appalling.

We were on LifeLock, but they ticked me off and I didn't renew. Sue thinks we should have some sort of ID Protection, so does anyone have any suggestions?

What the hell is going on here? The drug companies are now officially out of control.

Last week I heard an advertisement on the radio for a new drug, called Nuvigil. The ad talked about Nuvigil as a new solution for something called "Shift Work Sleep Disorder."

Apparently, people who work rotating shifts can have difficulty sleeping properly. *gasp* *shock* *surprise* Who knew?

I mean, come on. Seriously? A simple sleep phenomenon caused by disrupting normal sleep patterns is now a debilitating disease? Whose idea was THAT? Never mind, I've answered my own question. It was the geniuses at Cephalon.

I need to know one thing: Has the American populace (as a whole) finally become so fucking stupid as to fall for an advertisement telling them that a sleeping problem caused by not keeping a regular sleep schedule is a disease that only a drug can fix?

"We have met the enemy and he is us." --Pogo

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100824/...il_eating_bugs

- Sue

What do you think about the proposal to have a mosque at ground zero? Obama's for it. Interestingly, Sen. Henry Reid is agin. Oh wait, he's up for re-election...

Politics and grand-standing aside, is this a good idea for promoting a "Can't we all just get along?" agenda, or a horrible slap in the face to the victims families and the American public?

- Sue