Here's my place for daily spouting off, doses of humor and insights you won't be able to live your life without.

Since there's not a whole lot here, I guess I don't have any earth shattering insights yet.

Oh well.

Where would we be without "man's best friend"? While we're on the question, where would I be without my dogs: Speck (left) and Stripe (right)? For starters - I'd have a lot less dog poop to dodge when I mow the lawn...

There's nothing more amusing than a roomful of people all wearing hats from my collection and pretending it's all perfectly natural (myself included).

Stories to make you feel smarter:

DUMB: Steven Baron and Andrew Fiore are being held without bail for armed robbery. Police in Foster, R.I., charge that the two men entered a mini-mart at a gas station and made a small purchase. As the clerk packaged the items, one of the robbers sprayed him in the face with pepper gas and scooped $157 out of the cash register. Only then did the two men put on ski masks, though one forgot to take the cigarette out of his mouth first and burned his face. A security camera recording the whole thing got such clear pictures of the men that when they were shown to area police departments, three different officers immediately recognized the men as Baron and Fiore. Foster police chief Donald Kettle dubbed the robbery "one of the stupidest crimes ever committed." (UPI)
...Nope, not even close. Read on...


DUMBER: Michael Anthony Silver, 34, has been arrested for burglary and grand larceny. Leesburg, Va., police were led to Silver when the burglary victim got his phone bill: it had a $250 charge for calls to a psychic hotline around the time the crime was committed. Police contacted the phone psychics and found that one of their callers indeed gave his name as Michael Silver. Silver said he did make the calls, but from somewhere else. (AP)
...His defense: if he was a burglar, the psychics would have known it.


BEYOND DUMB: Moments after a bank robber in Wilmington, Del., escaped, a packet of dye hidden in the loot exploded, staining his skin with incriminating evidence. A few minutes later, a man stepped from an apartment building and waved a friendly greeting to a passing police cruiser. "The officer noticed his hands were fluorescent orange and just put two and two together," a police spokesman said. Impulsive waver Cawayne Brown was arrested and charged with bank robbery. "If he would have gone about his business, the cop car would have gone right past him." (AP)
...Whenever you think stupidity has reached rock bottom, just remember the fools haven't even started to dig.