Only gardeners and children can "grow"

When I hear someone talk about "growing a business" or "growing the economy," I know they are not sincere.

Grow is not an action verb. It's passive...like the efforts of people who misuse the word. People can't "grow" real entities like money or a fan base. They have to be gone out and gotten.

And while I'm on the subject of The Female Curmudgeon's peeves, the phrase "Having said that" is just an overdone way of saying "But" or "However." If you indeed have "said that," there's no reason to reference it now, is there?

New Drinking Game

Do a shot every time you hear the word "caramelize." You don't even need cable to get sloshed!

When did this cooking term become so omnipresent?

Waiting for the jobs...or Godot?

I hate to get political on the WWW but, C'mon, politicians! The jobs are waiting to be created, and Americans are waiting for you to get off your butts and create them.

Businesses aren't going to hire until they feel confident about the U.S. economy, which nobody does. And tax breaks won't change that. Have the tax breaks of the last several years made anyone feel more secure? Of course not.

That's why it's now up to the government; the infernal institution that got its citizens into this mess is now the only one that can get us out. By creating some frickin' jobs! Lots of them.

It's simple really. The market requires consumers to spend money. Consumers require jobs to have the money to spend. Without employment, there are no consumers. There is no way around that.

So what is everyone waiting for?

Being unemployed is like...

Being forced to play a perpetual game of tag where you are always "it." Not quite as humiliating as your first time at summer camp but also less fun.

Women vs. Men

This is the 21st century, is it not? So, how is it that 95 percent of ladies rooms still do not have a hook for a purse? Handbags have not gone out of style in any place I have been in the last 10 years. C'mon, restroom designers. Get with the program!

The other night I tried "Just for Men" (for blacking out gray hair) just around the crown of my female head. It looked like it really worked before I went to bed. The next morning, the dye job seemed to have evaporated! Could it have figured out overnight that it was on the wrong gender? I guess I'll never know.

Et Tu, CBS?

Fake fireworks? Are you kidding me? According to the story below, CBS, once known as the "Tiffany Network," broadcast some embellished fireworks displays from Boston...

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2011/07/08/cbs_broadcasts_altered_views_of_bostons_fourth_of_july_fireworks/

Is this really what we've come to now? Real fireworks are deemed not exciting enough by the powers that be so they just fake 'em! The obvious question is, what else that's being broadcast isn't real (that we don't know about)?

At this rate, I'm going to run out of outrage before the new year!

Casey Anthony Overkill

Now that the accused daughter-murderer has been found "not guilty," is our (two-week) long nightmare news outage over?

I wonder what else has been happening in the world that the media has refused to cover for the last fortnight to ensure us uninterrupted coverage of the trial.

Uch.