Remember the woman caught on camera petting someone’s cat then picking it up and dropping into an outdoor trash can, trapping it for 16 hours?
After being identified and requiring police protection from a potentially infuriated neighborhood, she has apologized what what she has called “a split second of misjudgment.”
But she did herself no favors with the next statement to come out of her mouth:

While having coffee with a friend of mine Saturday morning, I heard one of the girls behind the counter at the coffee shop tell the other, “B-R-B.”
She actually said the letters out loud.
While I understand that “BRB” is much faster than typing the words “be right back,” it’s almost moronic to use them in verbal communication, since both have exactly the same number of syllables.
To make matters worse, the girl to whom she was speaking wasn’t familiar with the abbreviation, so Miss Lazy had to then stop and explain what she meant, …

I scanned Twitter as I had lunch today and noticed that a pastor had retweeted a tweet from Pastor Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life.  The tweet, which appeared Saturday on Warren’s verified Twitter account, read:
“I could die today knowing that I have “served God’s purpose in my generation” (Acts 13:36) It is your turn.”
I had to read it a few times to make sure I wasn’t misreading.
The bible verse (in the New International Version) is as follows:
“For when David had served God’s purpose in his own …

What stage of development are you in?
That’s a weird question to ask an adult because it makes it sound like we’re still kids. Well, I’m not sure that we ever really grow up all the way, no matter how old we are, so maybe it’s not such a weird question.

The grocery store chain Food Lion, along with the other chains in the Hannaford family, is running The Great Grocery Giveaway contest, which involves shoppers receiving scratch-off cards for purchases they make in the store.
I’m not exactly sure how they determine how many scratch-off cards you’re supposed to get based on any specific dollar amount, because every time I shop there, though my tally is normally in the same general area, I’ve sometimes received two cards at once and sometimes received five.
For the most part, they had been stacking up …

A quick pet peeve: I just heard a commercial about a phone company that promises to reduce your bill, and one of the first soundbites comes from a customer (or actor portraying a customer) who says he is “sir ann” he pays too much for his service.
He’s who??

When President Obama addressed the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” issue, he missed a critical point in the debate over whether a mosque should be allowed to be build just blocks away from the former site of the World Trade Center.
It’s a no-brainer that every religion has a right to practice freely in this country. We all know that.
No one, as far as I can tell, is attempting to debate that point.
There’s a right way and a wrong way. A right time and a wrong time. And, in …

Followers of singer Justin Bieber’s verified Twitter account got a shock last weekend, when the account added a tweet inviting everyone to call Bieber at a 248-area code phone number. Though the tweet was taken down shortly thereafter, it was up long enough for more than 20,000 people to call or text that number.
The trouble is, it wasn’t Bieber’s number, and it appears the singer posted it out of revenge against an accused hacker who got Bieber’s number under false pretenses.
As the story goes, a 15-year-old Detroit teenager was …

If you live anywhere in the southeast and you aren’t a fan of heat and humidity teaming together to create nearly unbearable conditions outside, then you’ll be happy know that summer will soon be over.
But before we bid this ridiculously unpleasant season adieu, take a moment to consider this list of 8 Things to Do Before Summer Ends.
You’ll use them for this week’s question.

I’ve installed a plugin that I think is based on a great idea:  taking advantage of older blog’s archives to find new things to tweet.
The aptly-named “Tweet Old Posts” searches your blog’s older postings, then chooses one at random based on an age range and categories you specify, and tweets a link to it just as though it were a new post.  It gives bloggers with Twitter accounts additional material to tweet, and it gives your followers additional material to read on your blog that they may have missed the …