The Random Owl

1) Sireeeeen Dijon Strikes Again: Does anyone find it more than a little crass and a bit of marketing overkill that Celine Dion is putting tickets to her, rather ironically titled "Taking Chances' tour on sale OVER A YEAR IN ADVANCE????!!!!! Advance reviews of the album seem to hold that Celine does anything BUT take any chances with her safe, calculated, glossy and sappy power-ballad thing. She's been packing 'em in at Vegas for the last several years at her own theater and now she's rarin' to hit the road. No, that's NOT an air raid siren you're hearing folks, it's just Celine caterwauling about L-O-V-E at the top of her lungs.. Yeah, she can yowl, wail and swoop 5 octaves at full air raid siren volume, change costumes and fly, but the real question is, CAN SHE SING?????????

2) Wise Old Owl Saying #95: Never drink anything that you could run a car or airplane on.

3) RE: The GA Drought: It's no secret that my state of GA and much of the Southeastern US is in a MAJOR drought. Our governor, one Sonny Purdue (no relation to chicken icon Frank Perdue), actually held a prayer gathering at the GA State Capitol Building to pray for rain. All well and good, but FWIW, I think the thing they REALLY should've been praying for was the wisdom and foresight to take PREVENTIVE measures before another drought strikes (things like building desalinization plants on GA"s coast, conservation measures, more aggressive pursuit of getting the Army Corps of Engineers to stop draining so danged much water from Lake Lanier, making arrangements with other states to import water in case of a drought, continuous airborne water drops on Lake Lanier, cloud seeding, ANYTHING!!! etc). Hindsight is 20/20 but foresight is immeasurable. I think God Himself is trying to teach us a lesson here.

4) Wise Old Owl Saying #25: If your company says there'll be no more layoffs, THEY'RE LYING!! It'll be a full out massacre!

5) Wise Words from The Gipper: "I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves" Ronald Reagan