The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

For as much as I dislike Fox News, I do have to say their moderators handled the first Republican debate better than CNN's moderators handled the second. While the Fox News crew appeared to mix up hard-hitting policy-related questions with drama-baiting questions fairly evenly, the CNN crew appeared much more focused on the latter type of questions. CNN's Jake Tapper, in particular, seemed intent from the start to start at least one brawl based on the questions he asked the eleven candidates. In hindsight, it probably would have bee more appropriate if Tapper started the debate by yelling into the microphone, "Lets get ready to rumbllllllle!" Whether the fight was between Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump, Rand Paul and Chris Christie, or Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, Tapper was on an apparent mission to see some blood, hear a few obscenities, and to always be remembered as the moderator who asked the question which prompted the craziest moment in debate history. Here now i...

Not long ago, I bumped into my next-door neighbors at a local pub. The husband seemed pretty low-key that night. He said hi and everything, but didn't say a whole lot. His wife, on the other hand, seemed rather inebriated and kind of got into my face about a couple things. She said, and I quote, "You're a lousy neighbor." I had a few drinks in me at the time too and while I was kind of shocked and hurt by the claim, I was in no mood to get into some silly argument with a person I don't know very well. She then said that she has invited me over numerous times to join she and the family in some kind of barbecue or something along those lines. I can't remember any such times (specifically) when this occurred. The only time(s) I vaguely remember this happening is a year or two ago, over a holiday weekend, when I had family in town. I was walking my dog, she waved and said hi, and may have said, "You guys should stop over." If we had more of a head...

An online retailer, Piperlime, which is owned by GAP, released an ad which reads, " Every time you wear sweatpants in public, a single guy leaves New York." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-gray/piperlime-ad-sweatpants_b_1161459.html The author of this article written by Emma Gray, said she took an unofficial poll on if the ad were in any way accurate. She asked many males about women in sweatpants and she said the majority of responses went something like this -  "Um ... I'm pretty sure I find girls in sweatpants attractive" and "Is that for real?" Don't worry about it ladies. This isn't true. We guys aren't too picky. To us, if you look good, you look good. We could really care less if you're wearing a skirt, dress, tank top and jeans, scrubs, sweatpants or astronaut costume. Typically, it seems as if women get all dressed up not so much to impress guys (because we typically don't care), but in a competition with other wom...