For the second straight week...

Monday night trivia was cancelled.  Due to lack of interest.  Did my team drive away the competition by winning week after week?  Perhaps.  Was it a case that the location just doesn't have the demand for the game?  Probably.  I'm surprised that the location survives, based on the lack of business I've seen when going there.  Maybe it's crowded on weekends, but on the weeknights I've been there, it's been "dead".

Someone managed to steal $70 million by adding bogus charges to people's phone bills.  That boggles my imagination.

This is in today's L.A. Times:  "Alejandro Lazo, 61, was arrested Sunday on a state Health and Safety Code violation because the body was deceased, the Los Angeles Police Department said."  It's part of a story about a male nurse who had sex with a corpse.  Is it just me, or aren't all bodies "deceased" when they've been previously identified as being a corpse?

Other ponderings today include:

Why do people with the flu shake hands and then say "oh, you should wash your hands, because I have the flu"?  Why not just say "I have the flu"?

Why don't people get the difference between saying they're sorry and actually being sorry for what they've done?  Apologies can be made in the sincerest form and still have no meaning behind them.  Don't apologize when you don't mean it, unless you absolutely have to.  Mean it when you apologize.

I've given up trying to understand what people who drive Hummers and oversized SUV don't grasp about the words "compact only".

Some Dodgers fans who don't have Time-Warner cable are in for a rude awakening in 2014, after the two entities struck a deal today for cable rights to Dodgers games from 2014 forward for a long time.  Bars that don't get the Lakers games now will have to do something or they won't have the Dodger games starting in just over 24 months.

Blockbuster is closing 300 more stores.  I remember when video rental stores were a brand new thing and there were few of them around.  Then they were everywhere and lots of people were making a living opening them.  The cycle has turned full and there are few left.  What does this mean?

Why do feet smell worse than any other body part, on a regular basis?  There are other portions of the body that might stink worse from time to time, but on a long-term basis, feet smell the worst.

This Date in History:

On this date in 1506, the first contingent of Swiss guards reported in at the Vatican.
On this date in 1890, the United Mine Workers of America is founded.
On this date in 1901, Edward VII is proclaimed King of England following the death of Queen Victoria.
On this date in 1915, more than 600 people die in Guadlajara, Mexico when a train plunges into a very deep canyon.
On this date in 1946, the Central Intelligence Group is formed, the forerunner of the CIA.
On this date in 1947, KTLA, first commercial TV station west of the Mississippi River begins operation.
On this date in 1969, a gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
On this date in 1973, the US Supreme Court delivers the Roe v Wade decision, effectively legalizing abortion in all fifty states.
And on this date in 2002, KMart becomes the largest retailer in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy.