BON MOTS

Blog number 282 **** 19 February 2009

The ubiquitous Wallgreens, a drug store chain, won't accept our medical insurance for drugs, but Safeway, a grocery story, does.

Montana Senator Baucus was named "Wheat Leader of the Year." Now don't laugh. This is "the highest public service award in the wheat industry."

I looked through a UPI photo book yesterday. On two opposing pages were three photos. One was Princess Grace of Monoco, head slightly down, eyes staring up with what I perceived to be a very lustful look, at John F. Kennedy. Another was a photo of Pat Nixon winking at Nixon's vice president Spiro Agnew, behind Nixon's back. This one looked more like the two were sharing a humorous moment. The third was of President Carter sitting between his wife Rosalyn and Joan Kennedy. President Carter is holding Joan's hands, which are in her lap, and Rosalyn is staring at the three hands with a very disagreeable and suspicious face.

My favorite photo in the book is preceded by a photo of a Kamikazi airplane about to strike the side of a battle ship, hitting the ship on its most protected point - the thick steel band around its hull, missing several gun crews just above. The Kamikazi explodes and its machine gun is hurled into one of the battleship's five inch guns, impaling itself in the barrel of the five incher.

There is the photo - this stark gun barrel sticking up into the air, a machine gun barrel and breech sticking out of it, like a straw sticking out of a tree after a tornado.

That's all I got.

Sorry.

...not really.