SMELLS LIKE MENOPAUSE SPIRIT

I do not write this in any way to condone the alleged corruption that the McDonnells are charged with. However, since the we seem to have gone from the "crush" defense to mocking and maligning Maureen's "nut bag" mental health, may I suggest that the type of behavior described so far, including the moodiness, the erratic, seemingly irrational acts evincing a lack of judgment, and the exertion of independence, "smells like Menopause spirit." The former First Lady's championing of Jonnie Williams' supplement would be consistent with her trying to deal with "the change" in the most natural way possible. Ironically, as anyone familiar with the bombardment of advertising concerning this normal life passage knows, to do that, and not medicate the symptoms away, is for the most part treated as a crime. Speaking as someone who refused physician pushed hormone replacement herself, and suffered through the inconvenience, Mrs.

THINK OUTSIDE THE COCKPIT

The latest on the missing Malaysian plane is that its computerized flight path was deliberately altered - that first off course turn - maybe even before it left the runway. The primary focus of the investigation seems to be clearly on the pilot and co-pilot, because, well, no one else on board seems to have had the requisite expertise. I have a different theory - remote hackers.
Think about this scenario. The data breach that targeted Target and other retailers, no pun intended, using malware created by a Russian teen who was never implicated, occurred during the busy shopping season associated with the religious holiday of Christmas. MH 370 went missing at the start of Lent, a time again widely observed by Christians, and close to the one year anniversary of the ascendancy of a Pope who, for lack of a better term, is packing them into the pews.

WHO ARE THE COWARDS NOW?

When Gabrielle Giffords was shot, I thought for sure Congress would rally for reform. After all, she was one of their own. Nope. Subsequently, there were other mass shootings, and cities with increases in individual homicides - the President's adopted hometown comes to mind - all provoking rhetorical rubbernecking - a passing, pensive pause replete with maligning monikers and divisive, derisive "debate," but no affirmative, ameliorative action. And then came Newtown, where most of the victims were very young children. Surely that would get our lawmakers to champion the cause, the politicians and babies "thing." And it did, for a while, until it didn't.