"Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible." - Margaret Mead

Two things that should never be done to a Ferrari:

I've had in interesting day.
That means it included things to ponder, unusual things to do and just enough frustration to keep it all interesting.

Still finding unexpected things on the gazillion channels we now get with DirectTV. "The Best Bra Ever" seems to be on one channel or another 24 hours a day.
The first of two Best Buy gift cards - part of the rebate we got for buying a TV and signing up for Direct TV at the same time - came via FedEx today. This is the $50 card. The $200 has yet to arrive. By the time they're both here and I've sold them on the internet our $500 TV will have cost us $280. That plus "The Best Bra Ever" makes this almost too good to be true.

Worked on Sunday's service today. Going to switch things around a little. Sometimes things need a fresh spark.

We sometimes watch the Today Show before Pam leaves for work. This morning they had two guests during the time we had it on - Snooki and Amy Chua. Both have written books just published, Snooki's book is....I don't remember. It's a novel (!) about young adults living the party scene in New Jersey.
They say you should write what you know.
Matt Lauer's interview with her was all you'd expect and less. He seemed eager to make clear she'd had a co-author. I think that person's job was to do the writing while Snooki took care of the partying.

Meredith Viera interviewed Chua, who has written "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." My sense from that interview and other things I've read about the book is that most people miss Chua's point. She's not saying she's done everything right; she readily admits she's made mistakes and would do some things differently. But as a Chinese immigrant and the child of Chinese immigrants (as well as a Harvard prof.) she believes in very strict parenting that accepts nothing less that a child's best in every area. Her two daughters have excelled academically, musically and in sports because they work very hard at everything every day and are pushed to excel. Nothing less is acceptable. Chua pointed out that this approach to parenting is not distinctively Chinese. Other cultures - she mentioned Indian and southeast Asian - take a similar approach.

At that Viera said, "Some people here will find many aspects of your parenting very disturbing."
Chua responded, "Many immigrant families find aspects of American parenting very disturbing."

That's where the interview ended. They didn't hear me say, "Amen."