1. WTF! Why does a woman in California with 6 children take fertility drugs? WTF? Now, with octuplets (sounds like an aquatic animal with 8 legs!) she has 14. Is that correct? let's see... 8 plus 6 equals.... Yes. 14 children. WTF! Good luck with the breast-feeding, lady!

2. Is there some way to cut out all references to the Super Bowl when I go through the TV channels? This morning there were people talking about it - or commercials relating to it - or promotions of some sort about it - on about half the channels. I can't wait for Monday!

3. Why doesn't the city plow out the alleys? WTF! There is a foot of snow in the alley behind my house, where I pull into my back parking spaces. I cleared my spaces with a damn shovel two days ago but the city hasn't complied with the law and cleared driveable thoroughfare on the alleys. I drove out yesterday - ONCE - and it took me a hellish ten minutes to get to the main street in front. Coming back, I got stuck at the alley corner trying to turn left. I rocked the car and finally made it to my alley and into my parking space. To do that I had to drive across what I think was a corner of a neighbor's yard (but I can't tell because of the deep snow.) There are garages and many off-street parking spaces behind our houses. The city doesn't give a crap, I guess. Many of my back neighbors can't get to work because of the conditions on the alley.

4. I need a stimulus here. Maybe some more dark coffee? The news is all about The Stimulus. I have read the House Bill and can't see where it will affect me personally. I don't think it should, frankly, but I can't see where it will affect most people. It appears to be filled with pork for congressmen and women, big bucks for the banks (more and more), and very little for the little folks like you and me. I don't get any stimulus anyway, because I am still paying of the IRS for a back tax screw-up. They take that automatically. But my Mom sure could use some cash. So could the neighbor who lost his job here when the American Standard Co. changed its name to the Mexican Standard Co. and gave him a pink slip with no buyout or severance, no health insurance and no warning. As for me, I could use a snowplow job in the F**king alley!

5. Morons who don't know a thing about climate keep telling me that this awful winter is PROOF that global warming is false. Morons should do the research. Climate change is no longer in doubt. The debate was over five, ten, fifteen years ago. Climate change goes like this: The Earth is warming. The polar ice is melting. The oceans are rising. The added fresh melt water slows down the ocean's currents. The great motor of the ocean currents controls the planet's weather. The planets weather flops so that the oceanic high pressure domes shift. This means that subtropical oceanic weather gets more violent. More hurricanes. More coastal heat in summers. BUT... and here comes the surprise!... The inland areas at the center of the continents, get extreme weather both in summer (HOTTER) and in winter (COLDER.) Morons, take notes.

6. Why do Viva towels big rolls cost $2.69 today when they cost $2.09 last week and $1.99 the week before? Are they making them out of TARP money? Corn? And don't even ask me about the price of chicken! What a problem! The banks won't loan me the cash to pay for groceries because they are buying other banks. Oh, what to do? WTF! C'mon, Obama! Nationalize them all. (LOL- and I'm not laughing about the prices. I don't think, now that the banks have been effectively nationalized, that I had to write that. It was the Republicans who nationalized the banks... don't forget that.)

7. I have other questions, such as where the hell am I going to find a 28" x 22" painting frame when I can't even get my car out of the alley? And why do my cats insist on opening the upstairs doors that I keep closed to lower our heating bills? And...

Where's my valium?