Here's to hoping you have a wonderfully amazing day Sanura! Remember it's all about you! Many many happy returns of the day as well!

Friday March 9 is a special day for someone on this site.

Defense Attorney:
Will you please state your age?

Little Old Lady:
I am 86 years old.

Defense Attorney:
Will you tell us, in your own words, what happened the night of April 1st?

Alternate title: "The Emperor Has No Sweater"

I heard a trucker ranting on the CB this week about former Vice President Al Gore's electric bill. When I started asking him about it, he said Gore's bill "was something like $20,000 a year." I started laughing and said bullshit. Nobody has a $20,000/year electric bill, right? Gore's fighting to reverse the effects of global warming, right? Turns out I owe that driver an apology. It was $29,268 for 2006.

Back home in Tennessee, safely ensconced in his suburban Nashville home, Vice President Al Gore is no doubt basking in the Oscar awarded to "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary he inspired and in which he starred. But a local free-market think tank is trying to make that very home emblematic of what it deems Gore's environmental hypocrisy.

Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.

From Kyra Gottesman, who writes a weekly column for the Oroville Mercury-Register:

In any case, I have been, I admit, a bit distracted by the steady march of time across my face — it walks with cleated combat boots, I'm tellin' ya — and the pull — yank, really — of gravity on my body. You'd think with all the high tech gizmos out there some one at Vickie's Secret, Bali or any number of other 'women's foundation' companies would have invented matching sets — in lace, satin and silk — of anti-gravity bras and panties. But, they seem interested only in creating lovely supporting lingerie for women who, well, don't need any support.

From the L.A. Times columnist Chris Erskine:

By gawd, it'll be interesting watching us baby boomer guys grow older. First, we have all the usual traits of the gracefully aging male — forgetfulness, lust, anger, lust, midlife crises and a certain I'm-afraid-of-nothing sensibility that makes a man highly attractive to every member of the opposite sex, except perhaps his own wife.