I really liked Clarabell, too (note: no e at the end, as that would be the feminine form, and don't ask how I know such trivia!), and years later, I got to share a stage with Bob Keeshan.  Well, so did a thousand other graduates at a campus that awarded him an honorary degree.  

Gilda was my favorite of the females. Ms. Rosanne Rosanandana or whatever, she was just so funny.

The idea is that the investors take the risk of losing their capital if the company fails....Mittens made sure he always made out like a bandit....

We never had Hostess snacks in my house growing up - my mom made brownies and chocolate chip cookies from scratch - and I can't honestly say we felt like we were missing out on anything.

When I got to college, there was a girl across the hall whose dad worked for the company that made Little Debbie snacks; she had - no lie - a closet-full of all varieties of their stuff, and she freely shared them with everyone.  I would eat them, trying hard to like them, or to figure out why everyone else liked them; to this day, I can't even look at the boxes on the shelves in the store without feeling slightly nauseated - especially the Pecan Rolls.

I'm just someone who bakes (and cooks) from scratch, and while I have on occasion made something from a box, it never felt right to me.  When the kids were in elementary school, my older daughter complained to me one day that "everyone else's mom makes these from a box - why can't you?"  Which kind of floored me.  

If your name is Barack, the closing of the Irving, Texas, plant and the attendant loss of 19,000 jobs can't be good when you are running for reelection.

Having empathy would be nice.  However, getting someone that knows the difference between standing on the jobs accelerator versus standing on jobs brake is a must at this point.  Feelings are nice, but results are what matter.

We send all these kids in these messes, tell them it's OK to kill X & Z, but not A & B.  They are away from anything resembling normalcy and then wonder why a couple of them crack under the pressure.  We want them to behave like savages, but then flip it off when we say so.

I'm not defending the behavior, they should be accountable for their actions, but it's not unexpected, it what happens to people under the duress of war, or so history seems to indicate.  Just more lives cut short and more lives ruined.

And leadership plays an important role, even the finest leadership is going to have problems because human beings aren't robots.  They are going to veer off the program from time to time.

If I were in her shoes, I would be okay :)  I was a single parent, shed the butthead and carried on.  Her butthead is much more well-heeled than mine was :)

Tim Tebow isn't helping sick kids when he supports his mother's lies about how he was supposedly a sick kid that God magically healed and saved from the forced abortion.

I get very emotional about all of that.  I chose to have my Josh.  We just got back from two grueling days in Atlanta.  They were going to do the very dangerous halo procedure because if we don't address his problems we will lose him.  Josh got sick though, actually I got sick first.  They put Josh's surgery off to see if he was going to get sick as well and he did.

He is super stressed and on Ativan, we drove home late last night and don't know when they will reschedule because two insanely skilled surgeons will have to do this together so must be scheduled together and have schedules that will allow it.