On Sarcasm

Jim Parsons Gives Vulcan Salute

I do enjoy sarcasm in every form. I particularly enjoy watching Big Bang Theory and seeing how the writers show a genius such as Sheldon Cooper who needs to have sarcasm translated for him by everyone on the show even the average waitress Penny. It is a hoot. I try not to employ sarcasm too much in my daily life because it can be hurtful and not fun for the person it is directed to.

Tragedy in the Township

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car accident, commonality, condolences, postaday2012, school authorities, sheer enormity, tragic loss

Last night my daughter’s friend was killed in a car accident. She was the only one lost. Her mother is our next door neighbor and my heart breaks for her. I don’t know her very well but parenthood is the commonality between us and I can imagine vaguely, not daring to delve too deeply for fear of the sheer enormity of the pain.

My daughter was devastated by the news and the suddenness of her loss. The school authorities chose to share the news of the tragic loss of the dear girl during the school day, needless to say that many students were overwhelmed by their feelings and had to go home, my daughter was one of them.

I am going to go over tomorrow to offer my condolences and whatever else I can do to help my neighbor in her time of grief. The injustice of it all is too much, she had just turned eighteen and had been accepted to a college. A young life full of potential gone all too soon. I am normally very affectionate with both of my children but today I hugged my daughter a little tighter and kissed her a whole lot more.

Birth Control Competes With Economy For News Coverage

This birth control debate shouldn’t even be a debate. This decision is solely between a woman and her doctor, birth control falls under the scope of preventati­ve services within the gynecologi­cal field umbrella and that is it. There is no need for the church to be involved, if a practicing Catholic woman is taking birth control she can use the confession­al to ease her conscience­, but there is the matter of free will and since President Obama smartly removed all responsibi­lity from Church organizati­ons by sending the onus back to the insurance companies the discussion should be moot. The GOP really needs to focus on the economy especially in terms of promoting job growth through policies that will push living wages, more high tech manufactur­ing jobs here, expanding green technology and stop with all this religious freedom nonsense, this has nothing to do with religious freedom it has to do with women rights, end of story.
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Payroll Tax Cut: Scott Brown Scores A Win

Apparently Scott Brown likes his job a lot and really wants to keep it, being from MA myself, I can attest that it was maddening to have a republican win Teddy’s seat. If it weren’t for Elizabeth Warren’s impressive fundraisin­g abilities and her talent for translatin­g complex financial ideas into clear and easily understand­able language that have threatened his job; I am not sure that he would have been part of the group that proposed the idea of passing the payroll tax cut without demanding offsets. I am leery of this turnaround and this is a turnaround­, before Elizabeth Warren he was in step with the freshmen tea partiers, so I am not comfortabl­e with the idea of him winning re-electio­n. I am pretty sure that most of us in MA are supporting Elizabeth Warren 2012.
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