1. Fissiparous

2. This Secret Service "scandal" has me chortling. Uh...we’re talking about an organization whose members stood guarding the White House bedroom door whilst JFK boinked prostitutes.

3. Just one more reason why I love The Adams Family: 

 In 1821, John Quincy Adams declared: America ‘goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.’ That course, he said, would involve the United States ‘beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition....She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.’" John Lukacs, "American Nationalism", Harper’s Magazine, May 2012

"Wait for death with a cheerful mind." Marcus Aurelius

1. I exist. I have no memory of not existing. I will never know that I don’t exist. Therefore, I will never not exist. ;-)

Lordy, save me from:

a. Avoidable ineptitude.

b. "Please vote for my [un]talented child online."

c. Helicopter parents.

d. The children of helicopter parents who don’t even know when their own classes start and end.

e.. Myself. I have this weird wish that Ron Paul would become President of the US, just to see what would happen.

2. Quiz Time: What was Paul Blanchard referring to when he said it was the "most unashamed, most absolute dictatorship in the world" ?

Sweet Revenge, by Diane Mott Davidson

Thursday Next:First Among Sequels, by Jasper Fforde–not my genre–didn’t finish

Fearless Fourteen, by Janet Evanovich

The First Commandment, by Brad Thor–Good plot, but the so-called hero is no better than the baddies.

The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson I’m enjoying this series more and more.

Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese

Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Prodigal Son, by Dean Koontz (NOT the comic book, but Amazon is confused.)

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, by John Milton Cooper

The Passage, by Justin Cronin

Undone, by Karin Slaughter

Duncan Delaney and the Cadillac of Doom, by A. L. Haskett–I think this may be Christopher Moore using a pseudonym.

The White Road, by John Connolly

Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson

Blow Fly, by Patricia Cornwell

Full Dark, No Stars, by Stephen King

The Bone Garden, by Tess Garritsen

Raymond Burr: A Film, Radio, and Television Biography, by Ona L. Hill (Poorly written, but interesting.)

An Irish History of Civilization: Volume II, by Don Akenson (The page is really this book, not Volume I)

Warren G. Harding, by John W. Dean (Yes, THAT Dean)–flawed bio.

The Cobra, by Frederick Forsyth

20^th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill, aka Joe King, yes, THAT King

Calvin Coolidge–The Man from Vermont, by Claude M. Fuess

As Husbands Go, by Susan Isaacs

Don Sherwood, the Life and Times of the World’s Greatest Disc Jockey, by Laurie Harper

Spider Bones, by Kathy Reichs

Joe, by Larry Brown

Stork Raving Mad, by Donna Andrews

The Ninth Judgment, by James Patterson

Gentlemen of the Road, by Michael Chabon

The Confession, by John Grisham

People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks

Broken A Novel (Grant County), by Karin Slaughter

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz

Naked Heat, by "Richard Castle"

My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead, by Jeffrey Eugenides–Didn’t finish. Supposed to be love stories. Turned out to be interpersonal relationships, which is not my fave genre.

Flowers, by Dorothy McDaniel

Finger Licken’ Fifteen, by Janet Evanovich

Frankenstein: City of Night, by Dean Koontz

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson

Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon–http://www.amazon.com/Outlander-Diana-Gabaldon/dp/0440212561/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1310613496&sr=8-1Too many words, among many other problems.

The Mission Song, by John Le Carre’

Herbert Hoover, by William E. Leuchtenburg

One Good Turn, by Kate Atkinson

Dark Prophecy, by Anthony Zuiker

Kilt Dead, by Kaitlin Dunnett

Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Brothers of Baker Street, by Michael Robertson

A Curious History of Cats, by Madeline Swan and Celia Haddon

John F. Kennedy: A Biography, by Michael O’Brien

Live Wire, by Harlan Coben

Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Cold Wind, by C. J. Box

Basic Brown, by Willie L. Brown, Jr. All Willie; All the time! *L*

The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie

The Uncommon Reader: A Novela, by Alan Bennett

The Eighth Confession, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Zero, the Biography of a Dangerous Idea; by Charles Seife

What’s So Funny, by Donald E.Westlake

Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro

Sizzling Sixteen, by Janet Evanovich

Life on Air, by David Attenborough

Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Dead and Alive, Book Three

Desert Lost, by Betty Webb

The Ninth Daughter, by Barbara Hamilton

The Wheel of Darkness, by Doublas Preston and Lincoln Child–Started, but just couldn’t get into it.

Trader of Secrets, by Steve Martini

Mausoleum, by Justin Scott

Mirrorscape, by Mike Wilks

Cold Moon Home, by Julia Pomeroy

The Dirt on Clean, by Katherine Ashenburg Enlightening! *L*

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House, by Scott McClellan

 Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, by Tobias Wolff

 T is for Trespass, by Sue Grafton

Stone Cold, by David Baldacci

1. I heard a radio ad for "Dave’s hot and juicy".  He is?

2. During the moments of the slaughter, the animals who killed Qaddafi were no better than the animal they killed.

3. Pet Peeve # such and so: Email messages that say, "Sent from my...phone."

4. What kind of disconnect must Jonny Lang feel now that he’s grown into his voice?

5. Let Them Talk–highly recommended

6. Pen Pals

7. smitch

8. Puncheon

9. Nuncheon

10. I refuse to watch any TV program that has a laugh track. I will not be conned into thinking something is funny when it’s not.

11. In a TV ad for "Water for Elephants the male lead says, "You;re a beautiful woman; you should have a beautiful life." Does that mean ugly women should have ugly lives?

12. A TV news reporter said, "He was bitten by a shark while surfing." I wonder what kind of board the shark was using.

13. The older I get, the more I find myself saying, "Oh for Pete’s sake" when listening to the news.

14. Add: "Those of the so-called 99 percent who want to bring the big banks down, might do well to consider how many of the so-called 99 percent are employed by the big banks" and he expresses my thoughts exactly.

15. Re the above: I heard one Occupier say, "How else can we get free food and free health care?" Yup, the government must provide everything for everyone from cradle to grave. Yup...er, no.

1."Hey, what do you mean we’re locked out because you hired the scabs for 5 days instead of just the 1 day of our strike? We only meant to inconvenience you, not ourselves!"

2. How the hell did what would have been yesteryear’s 3 second "We might get a little rain today" turn into today’s 30 minutes of "A big storm is coming! Hatten down down the batches!"

3. It has been my experience that most people who call themselves "forthright" are nothing more than intelligent bullies.

4. Juxtaposition: Occupy Wall Street v "Preorders of iPhone 4S hit 1 million in one day"

5. There is hardly a phrase that makes me laugh harder and longer than, "It’s not about the money." ROTFLMAO