Jim Flanigan Looks at the World
Turning the Mundane into Fundane Since 2015
We have had incredibly warm weather in November this year. Can I get some applause and love for global warming please? Anyway, a result of the warm weather are bugs flying and walking around in late November. Now this warmth won’t last forever. Eventually, we will be blanketed in snow and immersed in frigid cold temperatures. These nascent bugs will soon be frozen solid which leads me to ask one question …
What were the bug parents thinking of having babies in late fall?
I was really second-guessing the product I had chosen to pursue at 6AM on Black Friday after I saw the line that had formed behind me …
I was up well before dawn on this Thanksgiving day. That’s not unusual, because Dawn usually likes to sleep late on holidays. I was on a mission. There was a 48″ TV on sale at 6AM at a local store for 200 bucks. Our TV is only 32″, and no, I do not feel emasculated typing that. So I was up at 5AM and getting ready to leave when I recalled this story from last night’s Rachel Maddow Show …
A Catholic boys school in Adelaide, Australia recently unveiled this statue of St. Dominic handing a kneeling boy a loaf of bread …
I’m having a hard time getting my arms around the recent allegations of sexual abuse towards nationally known politicians. I certainly support getting these out in the open, if only to make sure that this kind of behavior ends. What I’m struggling with is how to judge the seriousness of the charges.
For example, Senator Al Franken has admitted that this is him in this picture putting his hands on the breasts of Leeann Tweeden.
At the time, Franken was a comedian on a USO tour with Tweeden, obviously posing in this shot for comic effect. That does not change the fact that doing so without her consent was wrong.
But then I see this video of Tweeden introducing Robin Williams like this …
When I travel on business, I like to squeeze in a cultural or sporting event when I can. Keeping in mind that I was traveling to St Louis this week, I set my expectations low. How low? I was planning to stop at the J.H. Hawes Grain Elevator Museum in Atlanta, Illinois on my drive home.
Why? Well, because of the Woodbine Glass Museum, of course! I’ll explain.
As a committed Democrat, I am thrilled that Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones has a chance to win the Alabama Senate seat in the December special election as he goes up against accused sexual predator Roy Moore. However, as a marketing and sales professional, I am less than thrilled at the lackluster logo his campaign is using …
Of course, I have weighed-in and offered my marketing and sales acumen to the Jones campaign along with this new logo …
Hiding uneaten at the bottom of my daughter’s remaining Halloween candy were some of these M&M pretenders called Sixlets …
I do see they are labeled as Gluten Free and Nut Free. That’s nice, although they neglected to add Flavor Free. But that’s not the biggest problem I have with Sixlets. I’ve eaten much worse. You can clearly see the problem if I rotate the package slightly …
We know the Trump Administration is a very hands-on administration as explained by their leader …
Q: Why must one always take the first phone call one gets from Attorney General Jeff Sessions?
A: Because as he clearly stated about 30 times in his House Judiciary Committee testimony yesterday, he doesn’t recall.
We received this notice on our door this morning …
I see that even a local Alabama newspaper like the Times Daily in Florence, Alabama is covering the Roy Moore sex scandal with this headline story that I swear is real …
Jim Flanigan Looks at the World 