On the Miltown

*** Oh, now I find out that Unemployment Insurance expects me to go out and try to find a job---there's always a catch!

*** This one's two months late, but what the heck---John McCain is so old he fought in the entire 100 Years War and later received benefits.

*** I'm reading a book about a sputum analyst---"Great Expectorations".

*** Courtroom novelist John Grisham has admitted that he's running out of names for future novels. After "The Firm", "The Jury", "The Judge", "The Attorney", "The Prosecution", Grisham said that he has already chosen the titles of a few future novels: "The Sidebar", "The Gavel", "The Judge's Robe", "The Bailiff", "The Court Stenographer" and "The Metal Detector".

*** Meanwhile, mystery writer Sue Grafton, best known for her alphabetic "A is for Arson", "B is for Battery", etc. series, said that she is not confident about the release of her third to the last book in the series, "X is for Xylophone".

*** I never had a great voice. At my Bar Mitzvah I had to sing, in Hebrew, "The Story of Ruth"---it was so bad I got sued by Ruth Hussey, Ruth Gordon,
and the estate of Babe Ruth.