Strange but true:
- The Fringe festival has a fringe

Don't like this "voter ID law". Yes, it is a REAL PAIN for some people to get a photo ID. That is why I never applied for a handicapped parking sticker to drive my mom around in Pennsylvania. I needed a photo ID for HER. I also remember four years ago when we made sure we took her to vote for Obama. We wouldn't have been able to do that if the photo ID was required. The crazy thing about it all is that NO ONE IN AMERICA CARES about voting! What do we get, about 10% of the people to come out? And now we are making it more difficult?!?! I was brought up to vote, so I do it, but it is very lonely out there.

Worrisome anti-American craziness abroad. Yes, many Americans DO make some despicable films. But, get over it already. I'm sure someone must have made something really insulting to QUAKERS, or LIBRARIANS, but you don't see me out there rioting. Boy, those people have no sense of humor. Could this be the start of the end of the world? Maybe....

Guess I should get off of Playlist. I really am not much of a multitasker. It is hard to concentrate on writing when the music in your earphones is chanting, "Niggas they want war, but they ain't got money...". I do enjoy songs such as "I'm so paid" by Akon. I also have a thing for L'il Wayne. Yeah, it's embarrasing, but there you have it. In fact, I am SO into MY music that I am thinking about getting Sirius XM in the car again. I got a year's free trial when I bought my FIRST American car (a Chevy Malibu) and I LOVED it. But I cancelled it due to frugality reasons.

Things I love about Sirius XM:

- Decades channels
- Springsteen channel
- left wing channel
- audiobook channel
- comedy channels
- Broadway channel
- with the press of a button you can find out the name of the song and the name of the singer

"What kind of a Democrat are YOU!?" yelled my friend when she heard that I didn't watch the convention last night. I know I should change my TV watching policy which is, if I'm home and it is on, I will watch it (for five minutes). I know everyone else in the world is DVRing it, but....

One good thing about Facebook: you can see which of your ex-coworkers and ex-boyfriends are Republicans. How COULD they!

School bus nightmare today. It took me twice as long as normal to get around. One bus sat there so long delivering the school children that I turned off my car. Then I backed up and turned around to go another way. Then I ran into a car blocking the road who had tried a similar maneuver but had a fender-bender with another car. So I turned around AGAIN. I swear that bus was holding up traffic for at least 15 minutes.
I was driving along a street which was recently cited as the most poverty-stricken street in New Jersey. The kids were pretty solidly Mexican with a few African-Americans thrown in for good measure. How things change. I tried to just feel good about the fact that they were all getting a fresh start and making progress with their free education.

Strange but true: the song Strange fruit was written by a white Jewish guy from the Bronx.

Addictions:
- one cup (no more) of coffee each day
- one bottle of Diet Coke (no more, but definitely no less)

I have to get the bottle so I can get the code for mycokerewards.com. I have gotten a couple of magazine subscriptions through that. I asked someone downtown if she stocked Diet Coke and she responded, "No, we do not stock ANY of that imperial rat juice". That would be Coke OR Pepsi.