Every now and then I see someone posting a question on our yahoo community group that they are looking for a good recommendation for a local family lawyer to help them with filing for a legal separation, or trying to get their child support amount increased. When I see posts like that I have to admit that it makes me really glad that my children are completely grown and those kinds of issues are well behind me now.

The years that our family did have to suffer through those issues was a very stressful time for all of us. We were constantly being dragged to court to defend our custody and support judgements. Thankfully the family lawyers that I hired was very generous in allowing me to send him monthly payments for years on end, without ever charging me interest on the outstanding balance. I’m so glad that those days are behind us; I hate to think that any of my own kids will ever have to go through that kind of experience in their marriages.

I was reading on the BBC website that a man from Milwaukee WIsconsin was been arrested for shooting his lawn mower with a sawed off shotgun.  He told police “it’s my lawnmower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want.”  He has been charged with disorderly conduct and illegal possession of a sawn off shotgun.

I’m no mechanical expert, but I don’t think shooting a lawn mower will “fix” whatever was wrong with it!  The story does not give a reason for the shooting, so I don’t know if he was mad that the mower wouldn’t run properly, or if he was simply mad that he had to mow the lawn and decided that if he killed the mower then he wouldn’t have to mow the lawn.

Oh, the world is full of nut cases!

The controversy that has been going on in the news and on Facebook about whether or not all employers that provide medical insurance as a benefit to their employees had to provide birth control pills free of charge has really been quite heated. What seemed to me a simple “common sense” situation that all medical insurance should provide that benefit as an open and shut case has become a controversy over separation of church and state, and people have really gone nuts over the whole thing.

Many people felt that if an employer offers medical insurance to their employees, then religion should not be a part of it. Others felt that this was a case of the government interfering with the church’s position on birth control. Finally the President arranged a change in the wording of the law so that it was not giving people the impression that the church was condoning birth control, and it appears that now everyone is satisfied. At least I hope that everyone is satisfied!

So the clogging shoes that I bought from Ebay for my sister-in-law are too small for her. They are too small for me, too. I’m debating whether or not to hold on to them to maybe sell to someone in the future at the class that I go to, or list them for sale on Ebay just to get of them quickly. I’m inclined to just hold on to them for a couple of weeks to see if there are any newbies that need shoes that might fit. What would you do?

What is up with the bad attitude at the half-time show miss flip off the world? Who were you flipping off, and why? Weren’t you getting paid enough money to sing your song and prance your half naked body across the stage? Didn’t you care that children might be watching? Don’t you care that you are supposed to be a positive role model? Do you want all of the kids that watched you flip off the world to flip off people at school or at home and get in trouble for imitating something you did?

You should grow up and apologize. And then you should return all of the money you were paid for the show.