How low can we go?
Today’s Staples™ ad…
Clearance! This is it! Last chance! We are really proud of this one!
Terse Tuesday Two Too
Clearance! This is it! Last chance! We are really proud of this one!
Category Archives: Quickies
Clearance! This is it! Last chance! We are really proud of this one!
Terse Tuesday: Touching the Touchless Toilet
I saw this ad on the tube the other day.
Prices range from $272.51 for a plain round one to $1,047.15 for the “comfort height-elongated” at the orange box.
What. Are you nutz?
You have to touch the seat. You have to touch yourself, for heaven’s sake. Why would anyone in the world fall for a “touchless” flush?
Terse Tuesday: Earth to Liberals
When a poor, disadvantaged, misguided, minority person breaks into your home, do you sit him down for a five-course meal, treat the cut on his hand he got from the window he broke, and give him a job mowing your lawn?
Or do you call a cop.
Yeah, I thought so.
A Distinct Smell of Fish
Marathon, Florida incorporated as a city in 1999 for the obvious tax advantages. See, cities have taxing authority. It scrawls across Knight’s Key, Boot Key, Key Vaca, Fat Deer Key, Long Point Key, Crawl Key and Grassy Key in the middle Florida Keys, right next door to beautiful South Puffin. The population was 14 in 1820 and reached a peak of 10,626 as of the 2005 U.S. Census estimate.
8,461 souls make Marathon home today.
Marathon’s Finance Chief oversees the city checkbook on a contract basis. Bishop Rosasco & Company gets paid $384,063 for their fiscal year 2013-14 contract.
384,063 U.S. dollars.
8,461 people.
As a comparison, St. Albans City, Vermont, had a population of 6,918 in 2010. It is right down the road from lovely North Puffin. In 2014 St. Albans City, Vermont, budgeted $52,530 for finance and a huge additional cost of $9,000 for audit and audit consulting.
| $384,063. | $61,530 |
| 8,461. | 6,918 |
Wow.
Norman Who?
Today would have been Norman Borlaug’s 100th birthday.
American Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, Ph.D., was a plant pathologist and geneticist. He is often called “the father of the Green Revolution.” Dr. Borlaug’s work doubled wheat yields in Mexico and India and Pakistan which has saved over a billion people from starvation.
Genetically Modified Organisms.
Here in the United States, the Far Green (slogan: “Just Say No to G-M-O”) has made that a dirty word.
I guess those billion people are just an inconvenient truth.