When Breakfast was Good and Junkie

Breakfast was so wonderous when I was a kid -- not nutritionally, of course. But it did what it was supposed to do: jazz up our little-kid bodies with plenty of good, organic sugar, fresh from the ground, so we'd have the "Go Power" to charge through school or -- more importantly -- summer vacation. We all knew that sugar was rocket fuel that had but one downside (i.e., cavities, which we could easily fight with Stripe toothpaste), so providing we brushed, our moms were all for us shoveling bowls of sugary goodness down our eager little gullets. 

 And one of my favorite memories was Rice Krinkles solidly encased in brain-waking sugar. As you may have guessed, this was before I discovered the ultimate in sucrose-powered cereal, Cap'n Crunch. I long ago signed up as a lifelong member of the Cap'n's crew. But back then, after a bowl or two of Rice Krinkles (depending on how many cartoons were on), I'd hide down in a ditch by the road with my best friends David Wood and Charles Nasser to spend the day pelting the cars of random drivers with hand grenade dirt clods. And then run away.

Belts

Hi! I'm back after a long, long, LONG lacuna. , ready to write more of my babbling just like before. Except with about five years more under my belt. And that ought to count for something, since I can still find my belts (tho I hardly wear them anymore).

Where They Can't Take Your Stimulis Check

Some folks are scared that debt collectors will try to get their stimulus payments. This is a legitimate fear since collectors are generally scum. Back when I was a debt counselor I once spoke to a sick, widow in her 70s who was told by a collector that she should die so her debts could be paid by her executor.

But some state and local governments issued emergency orders at the end of last month in anticipation of the stimulus checks in an effort to stop all or some garnishment orders. They include recent legislation in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Texas and Las Vegas, and... a preexisting law in Delaware forbids garnishment orders directed to banks in that state.

Four other things that could help you if you're in that situation are in this article on MarketWatch.com today.

Not Quite the Apocalypse

Hi, I'm back. Yeah, I know. It's been a while, but I figured what better time to restart my blog than during a worldwide pandemic. Plus at that time we had a relatively normal person leading the free world, but now we have a low-IQ nattering blowhard who makes up his own reality moment by moment. What a time to be alive!

The main thing to remember right now tho is that the apocalypse hasn't hit yet. This we know because the majority of Waffle Houses remain open.

On a serious note here's how to prevent Covid-19 according to the CDC.

Fresh From the Department of Redundancy Department

Talking Turkey (Well, Really Beer...)

"Welcome, welcome Englishmen! Do you have any beer?" Sub-Chief Samoset of the Abenaki tribe is supposed to have happily exclaimed when he first met the Pilgrim Fathers. Of course, that was in March, not November, but the same sentiment has endured down to this very day.

May you and yours enjoy each others company in a similar spirit on this Thanksgiving Day.

Really Hungry Plants

Meanwhile, at the Honorable Society of King’s Inns in Dublin, Ireland...

Nom nom nom...

Image courtesy of Noel Donnellon

But this sort of thing happened much more frequently in the middle ages, so don't fret too much about it.