People don't trim their...

lists of people they follow on Twitter often enough.  Here's some proof.  In September of 2009, actor Tom Berenger signed onto Twitter and sent out one test tweet.  He hasn't tweeted since.  915 people are still following him, hoping against hope he will start tweeting again someday.

I have a rule on Twitter.  If I follow someone who followed me first, should they unfollow me, I immediately unfollow them.  If their tweets aren't interesting or topical, I'll probably continue to follow them as long as they're following me.  I'm struggling to get to 100 followers.  Maybe someday.

Why are people bothered when mutual friends of theirs communicate with one another, and apparently make them feel left out.  This isn't worthy of an installment of As The Assisted Living Facility turns, but one of the people that sit with me in the dining room and I have become good friends.  We have great conversations most mornings and at other meals where we are both there.  Someone that my tablemate used to be close to is someone I consider a friend, but not a close friend.  Now she's inserting herself into our conversations and frankly it's uncomfortable.  He gets angry about it because they've had a major falling out and don't normaly speak.  But she speaks to him when he and I are at the dining room table.  Of course, my tablemate isn't helping matters by finding every excuse he can to "yank her chain".

Can Lindsay Lohan's fifteen minutes please be up already?

Who is excited that the deal that will bring Twinkies back to store shelves is nearly complete?

Billy Hunter is the Executive Director of the NBA Player's Association, a position for which he earns $3 million annually.  Now he's taking steps to deal with the fallout from nepotism.  His daughter and daughter-in-law were working for the union but both have been let go.  And the association will no longer use a banking firm that employs his son.  I still think it's time to put a fork in him, he's done.

Why are the promoters calling the "Bikini Basketball League" that name, when the women who will play in league games won't be wearing bikinis?

Chick-Fil-A saw sales grow 14% last year in spite of boycott efforts.  Now a well-known gay pride group is saying that the company is no longer funding the most divisive anti-gay groups and hasn't done so since 2011. 

Zimbabwe is down to its last $217 in government bank accounts.  Guess they aren't buying lunch today at the UN.

President Obama said "if Congress is unable to move forward in a timely fashion, I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away..." and it makes me wonder just how well he did in his college government classes.  Only members of Congress can actually introduce a bill and the President can jump up and down, shout, and hold his breath until he turns blue, but Congress has no obligation to introduce or vote on a bill he "sends up".  So why do idiots in the media write headlines that say "Obama will introduce his own bill"...when that's just not the case?

This Date in History

On this date in 1649, King Charles I of England is beheaded.
On this date in 1703, the 47 Ronin avenge the death of their master.
On this date in 1835, the first attempt to assassinate a president takes place.
On this date in 1863, the first U.S. iron-clad warship, the Monitor was launched.
On this date in 1933, Adolf Hilter is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
On this date in 1945, the most successful POW rescue ever, the raid at Cabanatuan takes place.
On this date in 1959, the MS Hans Hedoff, considered to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" as Titanic was, strikes an iceberg and sinks.
On this date in 1969, the Beatles give their final public performance.