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“Oil prices and demand for crude are both falling, but industry executives warn that the world could experience another dramatic ramping up of prices as soon as the global economy rebounds….”

--Wall Street Journal

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“An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.”

--Dylan Thomas

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She’s 8 and asked her mother to sign her up for piano lessons; however the piano class was closed. She wrote a letter to the teacher telling the many reasons why she should be in the class. As a result the child is enrolled.

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“The longer I live, the more I see there’s something about reciting rhythmical words aloud — it’s almost biological — that comforts and enlivens human beings.”

--Poet Robert Pinsky

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“Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it, it doesn’t make you spiritual. It’s right above your crack. And it translates to ‘chicken with broccoli.’ The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren’t pregnant. You’re not spiritual. You’re just high.”

--George Carlin

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Pro Golfer Boo Weekly is the new darling of the TV jock sniffers. He’s a good ol’ country boy who leads the galleries in cheers (for himself) when he sinks a putt.

And that looks like chewing tabaccy in his jaw, which means he’s a real man.

Next on the PGA tour: the writhing dragon tattoo.

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A ‘Boroan was in a Nashville fabric shop when she noticed the conversation level dropping. Folks were whispering. Marty Stuart was just over there examining fabrics.

“He’s short.”

How short?

“Oh, 5-2?”

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Before even the Democratic primary was over, the garbage about Barak Obama came washing down the Internet. It has featured lies (“He’s a Muslim, you know?”) and exaggerations. That was to be expected. The surprise is that the American citizen is so naive he believed much of it.

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‘Boro watching:

He looks closely in the mirror,
Drawing the razor over the
Soap snowy face field.
He rubs palms across the shaven plain
To discover any tiny patches untouched by blade.
He now and then finds a bit untouched by blade and mows it.
“To not care is to surrender to aging.”