I watch the Comedy Channel more than ESPN.
I’d much rather smile than cringe, take humor over the sports ego-trippers and retire at least semi-happy rather than irritated.
Oh, I watch a lot of sports when favorite teams are playing, but I get more pleasure from ‘Seinfeld? reruns, Jeff Foxworthy and his crew and pure-mouthed comics. I do not like the dirty-word humor attempt gaining in air time. I loved totally clean Red Skelton.
Which brings me to recently-received quotes by Larry the Cable Guy. Larry’s real name is Daniel Lawrence Whitney. (Someone pulled that off the internet for me, because I don’t pull things off the internet.)
Cable Guy Quotables:
? Support bacteria. They’re the only culture most people have.
? A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
? OK, so what’s the speed of dark?
? Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
? Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, ‘What the heck happened??
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I hope this is just a rumor, but I heard any universal health care legislation coming out of Washington will have a designated physician for people over 65 — Dr. Kevorkian.
Another doctor-related note I made to myself: .Doctors and others who think they have to ask questions should listen to the answers.
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I believe Richard Milliman is the most politically aware columnist in Michigan. He writes a weekly column, ‘The Almanack.? I gleaned the following:
Local governments, especially schools, also face recurring dollar squeezes.
It’s instructive to review some of Gov. Granholm’s speeches and plans when she was first elected in 2002, and how her early optimism has faded year by year. It’s not much fun to be the state’s leader while jobs disappear and people hunger for help.
Over the years, the Michigan public has helped paint state and local governments into a financial corner.
Through our elected representatives and sometimes by the ballot box, we have demanded services, programs and benefits that eventually have stretched far beyond our means and our willingness to pay higher taxes to finance the expanded services.
Unless people are willing to lower our expectations from government, we must somehow come up with the resources to pay the bills. The unhappy choice is a real one: Either pay higher taxes, or receive fewer benefits.
Certainly Michigan will come out of the financial doldrums eventually, but it may take several years.
In the meantime, we can expect annual tugs of war when budget time rolls around for our state government, our schools and other units of government which serve the public and survive on taxpayer dollars.
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When it’s not the other season to be jolly, the next best season is homegrown tomato time.
Bet you didn’t know there’s a song out by that title: Home Grown Tomatoes. Son-in-law Tim pulled it off the internet for me. I’m only going to give you the last verse:
If I’s to change this life I lead
I’d be Johnny Tomato Seed.
‘Cause I know what this country needs
Homegrown tomatoes in every yard you see.
When I die don’t bury me
In a box in a cemetery.
Out in the garden would be much better
I could be pushin? up homegrown tomatoes.