From KTTC in Rochester: Senator Al  Franken was in Rochester Friday, “collecting stories from older Minnesotans about the high price of prescription drugs.” He also “wants to tell seniors about what they can do to make medicine more affordable.” Go buy them from Canada or Mexico? Or Amazon? Seems that every time the government helps us, stuff gets more expensive.

Loved the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou”.  I’m waiting for the remake ” Bro ? u @”

Seem to be getting a lot of motivational quotes from folks, some Book of Face updates and emails and texts.  I like to discover the source of these nuggets of wisdom. If I’m supposed to change my life to follow this path, I want it to be more than the GPS Voice that announces “Turn left here” before I turn and drive off the cliff.

So I look up the original source for these nuggets. Go online and search. OK, here’s Pinterest, Pinterest, Pinterest, more Pinterest, then I can get to chasing down the original source of the quote. You have got to be kidding me – a person with a fish on their bumper and an embroidered cover on the Good Book has sent me a series of Hindu or Taoist quotes? I understand (I think) why the quotes sound good – every one wants to believe in karma when they get cut off in traffic.  I just think that if we are going to be held accountable someday, for every word we’ve said and action we’ve done, we should put more thought into what we say and do.

In case you want to do your own search, New York Public Library has a good blog article on that. Follow the link here: http://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/11/22/how-to-research-quotations.

Well, the Crankasauris has to go get groceries now.

Growling for the Good and True,

Billy Acre