I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
THE ZEN OF SARCASM:
There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“To live in the world of creation – to get into it and stay in it – to frequent it and haunt it – to think intensely and fruitfully – to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation – this is the only thing.” Henry James. p. 21
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
Why did Sen. George Voinovich take such a strong slap at Gov. Ted Strickland on the slot machine issue? Health care.
Voinovich – the Artful Dodger – is dodging another issue that could help millions of Americans and break the hold of big insurance over our health care.
Of course, Voinovich and his family have had government health care for more than 40 years. Continue Reading »
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
THE ZEN OF SARCASM:
Duct tape is like ‘The Force.’ It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“The writer has taken unto himself the former function of the priest or prophet. He presumes to order and legislate the people”s life. There is no person more arrogant than the writer.” Cornelius Register. p. 21.
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
I sort of don”t pay much attention to the Plain Dealer sports pages. But it”s hard not to read them since there”s so little else to read in the paper. So last week I caught Bill Livingston”s spanking of pitcher Cliff Lee.
Sports gets a lot of free publicity and eats up a lot of resources sorely needed elsewhere.
Livingston” last week brought some reality to the sports pages when he chastised Lee, traded recently to Philadelphia, for Lee”s comments about Cleveland fans. Lee blamed fans for not attending more games. He said, “That”s why the team didn”t make money, because the fans weren”t there, supporting the team.”
Livingston wrote, “It is hard to believe anyone could make such a clueless, almost callous, statement.”He pointed out that those working fans were encountering a deep recession here. Continue Reading »
WKYC”s Tom Beres remains one of the few serious reporters on local television. That said, it”s shameful that his “Between the Lines” Sunday show too often has conflict of interest written all over it.
Not his personal conflict of interest. Those of his “guests.” That, however, makes it his problem.
WKYC should either do this show right or not do it at all. Management apparently wants to take credit for Beres”s good reputation but doesn”t want to do the show as it should be done.
Beres, entitled Senior Political Reporter for WKYC, has a few minutes each Sunday to rush through comments about important issues – another problem with the show. More seriously his guests are typically people who represent political and business interest as consultants. Continue Reading »
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
THE ZEN OF SARCASM:
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“The nobility of a writer”s calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.” Albert Camus. p. 20
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
NEWS BULLETIN! NEWS BULLETIN! The Greater Cleveland Partnership backs the County Reform for an executive and 11-member Council that it gave $100,000 to put on the ballot.
What strange behavior. Supporting something you paid $100,000 to birth. Startling.
Well, the Plain Dealer thought it was news. The Pee Dee ran a four-column headline, “Business group backs county reform plan” on the Metro front page. Since the Partnership paid for the ballot issue you”d have to believe that the “business group” – or Republican group, if you will – wants it.
The Pee Dee wants this reform badly. Really badly. Awfully badly. Continue Reading »
Our Regional Transit Authority tried a pathetic attempt to avoid solving a problem by trying obfuscation that really should fool no one.
The problem: circulation buses that provide service for transit-dependent people. RTA will cut all circulation vehicles this month, leaving those dependent upon such a service abandoned.
RTA”s sorry solution: a proposal for a new service – a once-a-week shuttle service as a pilot project instead of circulators.
It”s called the Weekly Shopper Service, according to an RTA press release. How cute.
Do they think people only need transportation once a week? Continue Reading »
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
THE ZEN OF SARCASM:
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“To confront these unfortunate mental habits, a writer should: think of himself as a god, not as a bug; call himself no bad names; calm down and let the world stop; make no odious comparisons with writers who have it better, have published more, look as though they”re more talented, etc.; activate his brain, freeing neurons by the billions in the service of deepened consciousness; stay in the present, neither reliving past failures nor fine-tuning a future Nobel Prize acceptance speech; love himself; let in mystery; focus on ideas and on his work, not on himself. p. 16
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
Signs continue to suggest disaster for local government as property taxes are ready to tumble. Tower City folk are seeking more reductions in the property value of the Ritz-Carlton.
The downtown luxury hotel had enjoyed a 20-year, 100 percent tax abatement. Back on the tax rolls it now asks for reductions via a reduced valuation on the luxury hotel.
I reported earlier this week that the owners of the Ritz-Carlton, a partnership of Tower City, a Forest City Enterprises connected operation, asked for one parcel to be reduced in value for taxation by $105,736.
Two other filings at the Cuyahoga County Board of Revision show requests for parcels 101-23-103F and 101-23-108F to be reduced by $63,752 and $71,952, respectively. Another $135,704. The parcels are on Huron and Prospect Avenues. These reductions would affect last year”s taxes and could mean that money either hasn”t been paid on these values or will have to be returned if found acceptable. Continue Reading »
Hard to believe that it was 32 years ago that the first tax abatement for the National City Bank building at Euclid & E. 9th Street became a central issue in the defeat of a mayor. Presently, its new owners are seeking a $1,489,500 deduction in its value for tax purposes.
The first tax abatement given by the City of Cleveland came as a result of a law drafted by Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.
Mayor Ralph Perk successfully pushed this first abatement and paid a heavy price because it, along with other decisions that earned him a reputation as a give-away mayor. Dennis Kucinich and Edward Feighan finished one-two in the primary race, knocking Perk out of office. Continue Reading »
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