I remember when he was the host of Who Do You Trust and when he was tabbed to replace Jack Parr everyone thought he was too young and too limited in his experience to keep the show popular. I think Mr. Katz absolutely nailed the source of his enduring appeal.

Are you sure he is smart enough to know you were rewarding him for business done? It sounds like he thought you enjoyed watching him lift his leg. There is probably a french joke in there somewhere but I will leave it for others.

Thanks for the link. It is a cool site and the background info makes it more interesting. I never understood why my website, Nose Pickings, never caught on.

Lenny Bruce used to do a riff on selling eggs by the roadside as a kid and learning that people raved about the superior taste and freshness of the store- bought eggs he sold if he put a little chicken manure on them.

"When I was canvassing for Greenpeace, USA we would keep a picture of a  baby harp seal on top of our clipboard to remind people of the urgency of our mission."

That's not an opening sentence we see here much. I think there already is a migration corriodor available for spider monkeys  but I will leave it for others to insert there own joke.

My limited experience with strip clubs leads me to think that in the best situation they are still basically the Ellis Island of modern America. You probably have to be there to know who are the huddled masses.

I think Diane nailed the faulty logic of the regulators when she pointed out that the problem of diminishing profits coincided with a politically correct and brain dead policy that welcomed diverse body types and ethnic backgrounds. Fat ethnically diverse sociology doctorates are the new oppressed minority.

Great word, Ricofray.

Mendel, I agree with you to the extent that you are saying that within the disciplines of rhetoric there are fallacies of logic that are exploited by liberals and conservatives alike. It is fairly easy to dissect logic in written commentary. I seem clever when I make a thoughtful written comment here.(yes, it happens, occasionally). When I am in a conversation with a liberal, I become a blithering idiot. Some of the suggestions posted above reinforce my resolve to learn to question carefully and use questions as my preferred weapon, oops, I mean, conversational style.

The instrument likely to be heard on Judgement Day? More likely a telephone than a trombone.

That is a nice summary, Hang On. Thanks for the update. I had not seen anything about the concern for spending funds raised through the tax form check off. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

I went to school before public education became the great experiment in liberal indoctrination. Yes, I am that old. Even though my public grade schools and high school would be considered radically conservative today, I learned more at home, I think. I admire the parents who home school enormously. You are right, Adrian, that homeschooling threatens the liberal ideology of the media and threatens the power of the teacher unions.

Emily, you seem to see a lot in magazine covers. I am like Charlie Brown looking at clouds with Linus: "I was going to say I saw a duckie and a horsie, but I changed my mind."

Thank's Dave. I remember it now from last year and appreciate it every bit as much. Maybe "Gran's jacket that breaks wind" can be like "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" in the pantheon of holiday remembrances we cherish on an annual basis.

"As a lawyer I'm about as useful as tits on a bull; my JD is a pair of scarlet letters on my resume for every non-law job I apply for, I can't even get a promotion to full-time at my shoe job because of office politics, and I have to remain barren because I can't afford my $600/mo mortgage, much less health insurance."

"I probably shouldn't have started this thread at all. My apologies."

Your arguments have been, to my reading, quite solid but the topic is confrontational. It seems to me you have the intellectual skills to be an excellent attorney but probably not the attitude or patience or vapid superficiality needed for  political correctness. We don't need no politicians here, however.

 "I would, however, like to post something that is interesting to me but in the scheme of things is rather silly."  

You obviously have not read my posts if you need more courage to do that. There is little in life that is interesting to me that is not silly.