Comments - Part I

I needed to assign someone to a people-friendly job.  The person that would be perfect is always overloaded and puts off new tasks though they are never refused.  The alternate was not so people-compatible.  I told my assistant to find her a personality, maybe there’s something on eBay. :)

We are experts at everything, particularly those things we know nothing about.

It is only a matter of time, less than ten years, where some animal rights activists insist on legal marriages, complete with health and death benefits, with their pets.   Maybe this has happened. Consider:

• November 2007 – A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death – an act he believes cursed him. Selvakumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years prior.
• November 2010 – A young Toowoomba, Queensland man tied the knot with his best friend – a five-year-old labrador.
• There are many more...

Marry your pet?  There is even a website. http://www.marryyourpet.com/  Watch out for PETA; they need an issue; they need a headline.

Mindsurfing.  What is that??  Doesn’t matter.  It is.  Its kinda like day dreaming, dressed up with a new name.

Good for Dr. Petraeus, now visiting professor of public policy at Macaulay Honors College at CUNY.  Of course, he is flawed.  We all are likewise.  This most excellent general continues on, regardless, like most of us do.  Unfortunately, because of a minor peccadillo, our country has lost his valuable service.  Maybe a few students will learn from his very close encounters with terror, death, and war.   Wish I could sit in on his course.   How rare this is.

Senator Marco Rubio seems to be making illegal immigration reform a signature issue for his presence.  This, relatively minor issue, presents a risk to his gravitas as a future presidential contender.  Yet, is seems to be the only issue on which both of our now extreme parties can come to a semblance of agreement.