Cursed Tongue: Adventures in Jurisimprudence: Jury Selection

Posted by CursedTongue on March 22, 2008

My second jury summons ever appeared in the mailbox in late March, and I knew immediately that my number was up.  Last time I filled in the on-line reply, called the jury hotline the night before the summons as instructed, and I was told I was not needed.  I was confused, but relieved.  Why bother [...]

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Tags: humor, jury duty

Cursed Tongue: The Gift of Get It Yourself

Posted by CursedTongue on November 28, 2007

I realize that this discussion maybe just a tad early for some Christmas shoppers. But next week is Black Friday. (So called because that’s the color a normal human soul turns while jostled between the pallet of gift-wrap and the end cap of obnoxious, musical dancing reindeers in the crush of shoppers at the Wal-Mart on the day after Thanksgiving.) The harried, beaten consumer may shamefully turn to the shiny gift card display in their time need.

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Tags: christmas, humor, shopping

Cursed Tongue: Sweet Obsession

Posted by CursedTongue on November 18, 2007

There was a time when I could consume just about anything and not gain weight. Of course, when I got to college, it turned out that I could have been 15 pounds lighter if I had gotten more exercise (I walked a lot) and been a cafeteria vegetarian (I did not trust most of the meat dishes at my school).

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Tags: diet, humor

Cursed Tongue: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Posted by CursedTongue on October 28, 2007

There’s something about me, some vibe I generate, some secret superpower that attracts the desperately lonely, elderly and/or slightly insane. I don’t even have to make eye contact to attract these people. People that want to have a lengthy conversation with me about their lumbago.

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Tags: humor, pets

Cursed Tongue: Extremely Wrongful Tantrum

Posted by CursedTongue on October 24, 2007

China came down with a bout of the religious intolerance flu and begged out of attending this week’s conference on Iran. Protesting the Dalai Lama’s acceptance of the Congressional Medal of Honor on Wednesday, China, a nation of petulant only children, has packed up its toys and gone home.

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Tags: humor, politics

Cursed Tongue: It’s Not Us, It’s Them

Posted by CursedTongue on October 20, 2007

In the current stormy waters of rampant capitalism, it’s difficult to find a company that is unwilling to blame its woes on the very customers they depend upon for precious, life giving money.

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Tags: humor

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