Subject to Change

A full recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole could modify climate change in the Southern Hemisphere and even amplify Antarctic warming, according to scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.

So, mankind does have the power to slow global warming, with CFCs!!!

I heard yesterday that you’re considering putting in a street car route to boost mass transit ridership. I’ve got to tell you that it won’t work. Trust me!!!

I’m from Milwaukee, where our street car is about a decade old now. To be honest, I don’t even know if we’ve got one anymore. It ran from near the UWM campus to the liquor and gay people parts of town. Is this sounding familiar, Columbus?

If memory serves, trolley fare was originally fifty cents. So, it never made any money. One could assume from the artificially low fare that it was never meant to. One must assume then, that the idea behind the trolley was to boost interest in mass transit or perhaps to encourage tourism. Since the trolley typically runs empty and you’ve obviously never heard of it before, I’d say it failed to do either. It’s not even a topic of interest locally, except when our county executive suggests that we’re losing revenue on the service. That’s the only time anyone notices the blasted thing. We spent all that money on specially decorated busses and signage, and got nothing out of it. On the bright side, we didn’t waste taxpayer money installing a rail system for our street car experiment.

Let me ask you something: what sense does it make to operate a trolley car in a modern city? Wouldn’t driving the thing past the giant, electric marquee on High Street spoil the retro image? Look, I’ve been to the German Village. Parts of this town understand that ambience is an all or nothing affair. You can’t just slap a street car in the middle of downtown and expect it to be a success. What’s going to motivate people to ride it? 

I’m strongly advising you against this poor investment. As usual, my consulting fee is half the dollar amount I’ve saved. I’m eagerly awaiting my check.

Hugs and kisses,

Aaron

There are some fitness types out there who might be able to explain this:

Halfway through carrying sod rolls to my lawn on Saturday I noticed that my left arm was overworked. The muscles had that hungry/tired feeling and they hurt, bad. When I got started again on Sunday I noticed that I couldn’t lift that arm without feeling a very sharp pain. I chalked it up to strain or even deep bruising.

Here’s the weird part. Later on the pain was gone, just like that. I had expected that arm to throb for days, because that’s what usually happens. Yet, without pain killers my whole body suddenly felt great. That was it. The pain never came back.

Was that a second wind kicking in? It was so sudden and effective that I said something out loud. 

I’ve been devoting most of my creative time to this for the past few days.

I hope you enjoy it!

How else can you explain the third most powerful politician in the country INVENTING bible quotes. I wonder what the bible has to say about that!

This also proves that politicians haven’t got a clue what the internet is. They seriously think no one is going to call their bluff. 

I thought left-over baby formula was disgusting, until I saw what happens to chocolate milk that sits at room temperature for too long.

I’m re-sodding the back yard this year, because years of animal abuse have destroyed it.

I now have a rough idea how much my yard weighs.

Video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours, back in 1999, has hit the internet.

God bless YouTube!

This is a response to Owen.

Now I’ve had enough Will Smith.

This alarm is only a test.
The system must be at its best.
In an actual emergency,
respond with urgency.
And, well, you know the rest.