- Why are we so celebrity-obsessed?  Alec Baldwin is still making headlines (and sometimes at the top of them) over a single phone message, and we’re acting like he’s the worst parent ever.  He’s not the only parent who’s yelled at their kid.  What about the ones who regularly haul off and beat their kids?  What about the ones who do worse things to their kids?  Not that I’m condoning what he did, but now he’s been insinuated into everyday behavior so much that yesterday, a co-worker talked about “going all Alec Baldwin” on a younger family member.
- Has anyone else noticed that the weather is actually killing people now?  Strong storms (including a friggin’ snowstorm in Denver in late April!) are touring the nation and dumping immense amounts of rain and snow, tornadoes, hail and all kinds of dangerous stuff on us.  But don’t worry — this whole global climate change thing?  Just a myth.
- I saw part of The Bachelor while I was at the gym the other night… Not that I’m a huge reality TV fan in the first place, but this one really makes me angry.  First of all, the people on the show are never “normal” — they’re always much better-than-average-looking and seem to have these incredible pasts:  “He’s a millionaire cowboy astronaut who invented a jetpack that allows him to personally drop food and supplies on small needy African villages!” And the thought that someone could actually find love from these things… How many first dates have you been on?  How much time did it take you to realize you had found The One?  Something would tell me that you started with a pool larger than 20 people, and it took you more than a few weeks going through the illusions of dating while you take these wild network TV-sponsored trips to Lake Tahoe on private jets, etc.  It’s not real dating with real-life issues, it’s not the real buildup to an actual marriage, and to hear these women talk about how, after only a couple of weeks, they’re making power plays against each other because they truly feel they could spend the rest of their lives with this guy… even if they don’t mean it and they’re just saying it for the camera, it still makes me a little nauseous that they could take it so lightly. 
- I got a new toy that I’ve become mildly obsessed with… love it, though my thumbs are not reacting entirely well to the influx of texting.  I got the black one, not the “champagne” one.  My question is, if you’re out of signal range for some reason, when people call you, do they get your standard voicemail greeting or do they get the system greeting?  I was in a bad cell area and someone tried to call me, but got the standard system greeting, but when I took the phone out of my pocket and found a signal, she got my regular voicemail greeting that I recorded.