"It's almost impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry." - Joe Moore

Liz Taylor died. I know that because the first 15 minutes of The Today Show was devoted to her death. Never mind that they have renewed problems at reactors in Japan, and Libya looks like it could turn into an international mess with formerly aligned countries now criticizing each other, NBC chose to spend almost all of their news time talking in the most glowing terms about a woman who was married eight times and had substance abuse problems for much of her adult life. Yet somehow, Brian Williams managed to call her "the greatest actress of all time."
Fifty movies and one Oscar. Greatest??
Can you say, “celebrity obsessed culture?”

Driving in Sun City is sometimes scary but it's a scary you can almost anticipate. Assume they don't see you, have no idea what a turn signal is for and consider anything over 20 mph speeding, regardless of the posted limit. Oh, and red lights don't mean stop.

Driving in the morning or evening commute here is a different, worse kind of scary because you can't predict it. Drivers in a hurry to get one direction or the other will do impulsive and life-threatening things for the sake of the 5 seconds it will cut off their commute. And if you're driving a '67 Beetle, intensely aware of the thin layer of sheet metal that separates you from certain death, the song, "Nearer My God to Thee" comes to mind.
If you don't tailgate he will dart into the gap.
He obviously doesn't know that vintage VW's have brakes only in the loosest sense of that word.

Libya looks like verification of the axiom that no good deed goes unpunished. Gadhafi is a brutal dictator but the "rebels" couldn't form a parade in a narrow alley. They have no military skills, no leadership structure, no plan and no weapons. Meanwhile, the French are being French, Turkey is acting like turkeys and the Arab league has suddenly changed its collective mind about what they want to happen.
Last weekend President Obama said it would be "days" before we were out of the lead role.
Right.

And while we're feeling curmudgeonly, can we please give a stiff dope slap to college students who demonstrate because the state budget disaster means a 7% increase in tuition at state colleges and universities? I've had it up to HERE with Americans who think they are owed X, Y and Z. That includes old people irate because they might lose their senior center.
"Life, liberty and shuffleboard courts."
Here's an idea: go volunteer at the library or the Salvation Army or the food bank.
Just get someone else to drive you there.

I'm thinking Volksrod. (A VW-cum-hot rod) Am I crazy?