Here’s a fun exercise!
Everyone open your wallet (or piggy bank, or whatever) and take out $300.
Then, go flush it down the toilet.
Repeat for everyone in your house. Â We’re all in this together, remember?
Feels pretty good, doesn’t it?
That’s the latest spending bill passed by congress.  And if you think your money will be well managed (as opposed to just flushing it), I wanna come live on your planet.  This is being “fiscally responsible” according to at least one congress-critter.
Another soccer babe.
You’re welcome.
It’s a long and sordid story, full of gremlins and such, but in the end it doesn’t matter. Â A friend (of the internet variety, meaning I’ve never met them and they could be sitting in the next cubicle for all I know) suggested a movie to me, and I rented it and we watched it (finally) last night. Â And if that isn’t the worst grammer I’ve used today, well, I don’t know what is. Â Worse.
Ahem.
Okay, here’s the story.  “Children of Heaven” is a movie about a brother and sister.  Both young.  Poor.  It’s an Iranian movie, so it has none of the usual Hollywood flash (no Dakota Fanning).  The plot is simple, but the movie is beautiful and fascinating to watch:  A young boy loses his sister’s only pair of shoes.  So they have to share his sneakers; she goes to school with them in the morning (although they are too big for her) and he goes later.  Of course boys and girls go to different schools.  Together they dream of getting her another pair.
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