from the Mixed-Up Files of Crystal: February 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The UnFairness Doctrine, or "We're the Party of Diversity...But Only if You Agree With Us."

"After the Federal Communications Commission abandoned the Fairness Doctrine in the mid-1980s, Congress passed legislation to reinstitute it. When President Reagan vetoed it, he declared that 'This doctrine . . . requires Federal officials to supervise the editorial practices of broadcasters in an effort to ensure that they provide coverage of controversial issues and a reasonable opportunity for the airing of contrasting viewpoints of those issues. This type of content-based regulation by the Federal Government is . . . antagonistic to the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. . . . History has shown that the dangers of an overly timid or biased press cannot be averted through bureaucratic regulation, but only through the freedom and competition that the First Amendment sought to guarantee.' "

(excerpted from Rush Limbaugh's letter to President Obama in the Wall Street Journal. Read it HERE.)

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

spt: I Am Saying "I Love You" When I...

...eat your cupcake before it even makes it home.

To save you the calories.

more spt here!

Monday, February 23, 2009

Goodbye, 836

I am having morning-after regret.

Along with my new phone came a new phone number; I could have chosen to keep my old number--which I've had for so many years that I don't remember having any other number--but I chose to change to a new & better number. Snappier. More sibilant. Easier to remember.

I want my old number back.

My 836-11** number was me. It was part of my identity! (There's a Seinfeld episode about this, of course...there's a Seinfeld for every situational tidbit in life...) It makes me wonder what else I'll be tempted to change and alter so I can be newer, be better, but ultimately have changed what makes me....well, me.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Regifting: the act of taking a gift that has been received and giving it to somebody else, sometimes in the guise of a new gift.

I began writing for today's post and realized I'd already said it all--succinctly--in an email to my mom. So I am cutting & pasting my email. I suppose you could say this post makes me a re-gifter. Re-poster? Whatever. I'm tired. Goodnight.

Max, acting as The Bread Boy, sold 2 doz rolls and 1 loaf of bread to my friend Ali for $3 & received a $2 tip. She always tips him a dollar or two. He is ecstatic. Max has saved enough "dough," so to speak, (hahahahahaha) to purchase himself an ipod touch.

Mike just ordered 2 iphones and I am VERY excited!!! I have secretly wanted one for 2 years.

Tonight we will eat spaghetti & frozen costco meatballs (very delicious) for dinner. And warmed-up rolls.

I informed Mike yesterday that if/when we have to move I plan to paint the kitchen Tiffany Blue (look it up--the color of the Tiffany jewelry box), the cabinets cream, and the rest of the house apple green. I informed him that he has NO SAY in this and it WILL BE SO. Since i have endured 2 years of stress and emotional drain of my chi (google it), I will paint my next place in happy colors which restore my chi.

So there we have it; the summation of my day. I did get my hair cut & colored, a most welcome event. I never realize how drab my hair looks, when I'm overdue for a color, until I get it done. Oh happy day! I'm trailer-trash blonde again!!!

My color palette! Tiffany Blue and Apple Green.
Mike, you can just bite it now. I will prevail. Save the olive green for your office.

And. Mike. I'm going to put a big, sparkly chandelier over the kitchen table, so mmlllehhhh (sound of me childishly sticking my tongue out).

I'm thinking Bold! Bright! In-your-face Cheery! (Claudia, come help me execute it...!)