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Welcome to Diane Patterson's eclectic blog about what strikes her fancy

Undecided voters

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Tom Tomorrow sayeth it all.

Seriously, how uninformed can you be to be undecided at this point? Of course, I don’t exactly understand how anyone can think W. is doing a good job at this point. But if you’re all about having power and not so much about actually governing, then yeah, the Republicans are the place to be.

(I know, I said: no more politics for a while. I lied.)

Food and life

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A number of years ago I heard a call-in show on NPR—something having to do with food; might have been Talk of the Nation or maybe a segment of The Splendid Table with Lynne Rosetto Kasper—on which the guest was World Famous Beer Expert Michael Jackson (one gets the feeling he introduces himself that way a lot) answering questions about beers. One caller asked, “What do you think is the best light beer?” After which there was a long pause and Mr. Jackson finally said:

“Drink less good beer.”

Another anecdote: some celebrity who had lived a good long time—Tony Randall? my memory is total crap these days—was asked the secret to his longevity. His response was:

“Eat only food that can spoil, and eat it before it does.”

These are two pretty good rules for life.
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My funny, funny friends

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So, I’m discussing John Kerry’s Daily Show appearance in IMs with my friend Otto:

          DIANE
     Yeah, I thought Kerry was a
     little boring, but you know,
     I'm not looking to marry him.

          OTTO
     No, you have Tony Blair for that.

I need less funny friends. Not fewer funny friends. Just less funny ones.