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Happy Holidays to all.

Advantages of approaching (or passing) your 50th birthday:

• Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
• In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
• No one expects you to run–anywhere.
• People call at 9 pm and ask, did I wake you?
• People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
• There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
• Things you buy now won’t wear out.
• You can eat dinner at 4 pm.
• You can live without sex but not your glasses.
• You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
• You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
• You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.
• You sing along with elevator music.
• Your eyes won’t get much worse.
• Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
• Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
• Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t remember them either.
• Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size.
• You can’t remember who sent you this list.

Ad for an institution of higher learning, currently circulating on national news outlet sites.

Holy crap!

French author Michel Houellebeck gets slammed hard by, of all people, his own Mother (more here).

Wouldn’t it be funny if she ended up with the Prix Goncourt instead of the acolyte of modern nihilistic French literature? The lesson: don’t put thinly veiled insulting caricatures of your Mom in your writings. She probably has more dirt on you than anyone else.

On an unrelated note, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish my mother an early Happy Mother’s Day and tell her what a fantastic, great individual she is…

In case you missed it:

Which makes you wonder, in the context of the item being sold…

But here’s the kicker. If you let the page completely finish loading, the text of that link magically morphs to:

It’s like a virtual AJAX-y Miss Manners coming through and taking out potentially offensive wording.

Hmm. Wonder if they do the same thing for any other product:

No.

No.

Gosh, why even bother.