Needles of Iron: issues

September 9, 2008

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World...

Does anyone out there remember the Spencer Tracy movie, packed chock full of other stars (Milton Berle, Buddy Hackett, Sid Caesar, Jonathon Winters, Ethel Merman...the list goes on!) When Dearest Sister and I were itty bitty, we traveled to KC to see the Big Girls. They always showed us the sights in the big city, and mostly we were pretty wide eyed to what our glamourous big sisters had in store for us. One of the good times was going to see this movie, in one of the big movie theatres, in Cinemascope!

But I digress.

I read the headlines today."Will The Large Hadron Collider Save the World or Destroy It?" . (I vote neither.) "Armstrong's Back and Looking to Win an 8th Tour De France at Age 37". (I vote go for it.) Stocks tumbled as much as they gained yesterday (I vote 'agh'! My retirement!). And (disclaimer: know that I am a democrat) the McCain ticket has legs, and they are SPalin's. (I voted for Hillary, but now am an Obama supporter. See! Dem...all the way! It's the issues, not the sex, even though it would be sweet to have a woman calling the shots, but I want the shots called the way I see them. The 'publicans and I, we just don't jive. And that ends the political segment of tonight's program.)

And these stories are from MSNBC, not some offbeat website, even though a good Onion satire can be pretty darn cathartic for me.

So for balance, I have gratuitous garden photos, because I am feeling good. The iris, they are dug.

For Kate, my roses.

My pumpkin (with hand for scale). It is groo-oowing....and I know it really doesn't loooook like a pumpkin....yet....maybe it's not. Maybe it's an alien pod...maybe I shouldn't fall asleep....(anyone remember THAT movie?)