• I wouldn’t want Michelle Bachmann to be president of my homeowner association either.

• Just because one survives them or learns from them, doesn’t mean they aren’t mistakes.

• A weather story in our local paper (emphasis mine):  “There’s a chance of rain Monday, but sunny skies should prevail the rest of the early part of next week.”  And these people get paid to write.

• Republicans might be more willing to fund NPR if they broadcast “NASCAR Radio Hour” on Sunday nights.  (Until then, you can find the show on PRN but not on NPR.)

• The upcoming wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton may cost $48 million.  (The total annual cost to support the British monarchy is estimated to be $300 million.)  Here in the States, LeBron James will score some 2250 points this season for $14.5 million, about $13,000 each time his ball sees the net.  A typical worker in Poland will earn that amount in one year.  An average Nigerian makes $1200 a year and lives 48 years.  If a Nigerian made $1 million every year of his life, he could pay for a royal wedding.

• You are free to take this statement out of context.

• The old playground refrain “Why don’t you pick on somebody your own size?” implies that fighting it out is a legitimate way to settle affairs with bullies.  We train them young.

• It has been 44 years since The Beatles released Strawberry Fields Forever. 44 years.     One could view it as a privilege, to have been around to enjoy it for that long.

• You know that little project around the house that you never quite get around to doing?  Well, North Carolina never quite got around to removing this from its State Constitution:

The following persons shall be disqualified for office:
First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God.

This wording is from 1868.  So, North Carolina, fix it already.  Then take out the trash.