Even our beloved poverty meal Kraft Dinner is over two bucks for the family size! Kraft Dinner! Two bucks…kill me.

That’s an interesting comment. He set out to change the debate in a high-minded seeming way. And I guess he did. Did anyone else notice the line in there about how the blood of slaveowners runs in his wife’s veins and has been passed down to their precious daughters? What was that meant to convey? I thought blending the races was good from his standpoint. To me, that line was a dig at white guilt and a nod to black men about white men “having” their women. I don’t always find this guy so unifying—to me he slips it in as much as Hillary but in a HS debating way, is better at it.

Are we really using the site to get into that weight crap again? How predictable. I was looking at some model in a mag with those sort of improbable, stalky legs they have (prob retouched up the thingie) and thought, “You know, I never had one minute of perfection… Oh, well, I followed my creative muse and I helped people and may have saved lives…but alas, not one minute of physical perfection…” This is all so stupid. If our croissant-enhanced legs carry us and we still have our minds and voice, we are perfect and need to get off the dime and produce, love, nurture and work! Time’s awastin’!

I liked the post that said, “What money?” We are always being told to “save,” then they hack the interest rates down—my online savings at Ing Direct now make less than inflation. Why bother? My mother’s money is managed by B of A and they seem to be loaning it to Countrywide—her trust is slumping more each month. Who has money to save anyway? This always reminds me of the IRS a while back—people weren’t sending in their taxes with their returns. The IRS convened a meeting to redesign the form to show more clearly: Attach a check here. People didn’ty have money, you morons! If they had, they probably could have figured out how to send it. Sigh.

Living paycheck to paycheck with TWO or more jobs!

Yes, I think people should not be forced to have their retirement fund in “the company store,” and nobody wants to get fired or hear about firings—but these financial people come off as being total greedheads with their skanky little hedge funds and bridge loans. Bank of America is busily loaning my mother’s precious trust money to that weird “tan” guy Mozilla from Countrywide and her trust is tanking from this and the other investments to the tune of $15K a month! Not making money, oh, no—money disappearing. This is all she has—and if some is left, all the four of us have. Gone! And some twit sits at the Hamptons and now must put their NY condo on the market…wahhhh. I know this doesn’t apply to the support staff at Bear so much, but you are Mary Wells and you are not talking about the support staff, I don’t think. You are talking about the Gordon Geckos who would not care less about my poor demented mother or the kids who have kept her going for 20 years and counting!