From “Doubt:” A woman was talking to a friend saying something unflattering about a man she did not know well.    That night she had a dream in which a large hand hovered over her, the index finger pointing down to her head.  The next day she goes to Confession and asks the priest: “Father is gossip a sin?”

The priest instructed the woman: “Go home and tomorrow morning take a pillow up to your roof and stab it open with a sharp knife.  Then come back to see me.”

AND THEN . . .  manana.  It’s big and it’s about other and self esteem and how to make it on this planet. And about how our EMOTIONAL GUIDANCE SYSTEMS  . . .  DESIGN WHAT WE SEE IN OURSELVES AND OTHER PEOPLE. 

Optimism from television ads: (I know, I’m giving away my secret hours.)

Ads that offer you a FREE advertising video, a FREE brochure, a FREE quote.  Do they actually think that some of us out here watching are saying, “Look at that, babe!  We can get a thirty minute commercial-free commercial DVD!”     or “Do you hear that babe? We can get another paper advertisement in the mail! (thereby putting ourselves on a PRIMO sales list),” or “Babe, look we can call up the insurance company for a FREE QUOTE, thus providing them with an unsolicited opportunity to enter the high PRESSURE sales zone.”