Now if only the FCC would do something similar regarding gossip and rumors about celebrities. Sorry, I don’t consider lies as part of “free speech” - I guess I’m a nazi like that.

I second this - Word (or WordPad, or NotePad, etc.) is a program Aunt Lily must try to remember to utilize each time she has something she really wants to say! For me and my countless experiences of losing long-winded diary entries (HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE) on sites such as LiveJournal and MySpace, word processing programs are THE key to blogging perfection. To be great is to pre-write.

Actually I got it from the Appearing Nitely video… I don’t have the “On Stage” album simply because a lot of what’s on it seems to be on Appearing Nitely. But don’t worry, I ordered it anyway just this weekend…when I realized they don’t make VHS players for cars. How can one resist a Lily Tomlin album, anyway? I think I’ve played “Modern Scream” in my car so many times it needs to be resurfaced. I blame my friends; they’re the ones always asking me to put on Suzie Sorority or to “play the Rubber Freak again!” Evidence that the material is Timeless.

I am pretty much in agreement here - I don’t see why not. I know several post-menopausal women who would make AMAZING mothers that the world, quite frankly, lacks and NEEDS. These are women who would not only make great mothers, but in a sense already are great mothers, and who regret never having children. In fact, if more people were raised by 60, 65, 70-year-olds, with the wisdom that inevitably comes with such age, I guarantee there wouldn’t be so much ugliness in the world. Then again, there’s the issue of many of these children eventually not knowing their mothers for as long as they probably should. (Wow, was I a Libra in a past life?!)

While I didn’t agree 100% with him on EVERY issue, I lost interest in this political race immediately after it became clear that RON PAUL didn’t stand a chance to become the revolutionary Commander in Chief that this country so desperately needs. But I suppose I should check out this Obama stuff if a five-and-a-half-year-old is more up to speed on American politics than I am…eh? Love ya, Edith Ann - keep on doin’ what you’re doin’! If only more like you existed… *sigh*

Hah! I absolutely MUST respond to a blog that ends with “I just don’t care” - how can one resist??? Good choices, CB, but here are my three: [1] My albuterol INHALER, which will soon be banned by the end of this year thanks to the greedy, inconsiderate phonies at the so-called Environmental Protection Agency - apparently the environment would be safer if we asthmatics (…all 20 million of us) would just drop dead instead of releasing our negligible amounts of CFCs into the atmosphere with our puffers. Thank you FDA and EPA - God [forgive] America! [2] A NOTEBOOK…so I don’t have to rant publicly about every little thing that pisses me off…like asthma inhaler bans… [3] MP3 PLAYER (not an iPod - a Sansa thankyouverymuch) because I would be dead a million tragic times over without my music. I have roughly 600 CDs and counting (am I the only one still paying for legal, tangible music?) so it’s nice to have all my favorites in one convenient location. [3b] Wait, does Tequila count? Surely not; you can get that anywhere. Tequila cures everything…except maybe for all that propaganda about the human liver. Whatever.

A great woman once wrote, “You gotta have enough bread for plane tickets to India to learn to give up material things like plane tickets to India.” ;-P Ah, yes - the world continues to fill itself with more paradoxical conundrums than it knows what to do with! At least it is enough, hopefully, to inspire every (thinking) person to write/blog to their heart’s content. Perhaps eventually, seemingly simple questions such as this will get everyone more in tune to their brain muscles and there will be no place for irrationality any longer. …Then again, we may as well all die of boredom once irrationality has been phased out. As for the original topic, only two things matter: as long as they keep the hell away from MY uterus, anyone can do what they will with theirs, and 2.) it would be nice, though, if people wouldn’t abuse their God-given reproduction systems by breeding idiocy and rearing/encouraging voluntary ignorance. (Or maybe instead it’d just be simpler to lobotomize the logical, rational, and reasonable parts of my brain…)

I’ve always wondered why people take that woman seriously enough as an “artist” to write so in-depth about her. All that does is add to her publicity, thereby inflating her ego further…which means I get to see and hear Madonna every place I go until the day I die. And, frankly, let’s hope that is somewhat soon, in this case. The real question is - who else here would pay big $$$ to watch Chrissie Hynde, Annie Lennox, Ann Wilson, Patti Smith, and other such glorious women in music (who have managed to write their own material while being both ORIGINAL and INTELLECTUAL)…kick Madge’s pretentious @$$ right back into Reality (even without any physical contact, that is)? I suppose I shouldn’t be perpetuating negativity by ranting about Madonna - something I do quite often lately; normally I am neutral and/or forgiving when it comes to celebrities. But everyone has that one exception, that one button that occasionally gets pressed, that weakness, that guilty pleasure…right?