"Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. . . . So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."

— Jefferson Parish president Aaron Broussard, from an interview on CBS' The Early Show

Bob Denver, the eponymous star of Gilligan's Island, has died at the age of 70.

Happy Birthday, pjammer!

To answer your question, when I was 32 I had taken my first job in the "dot-com" boom, which quickly went to bust a few months later.  So I wish that I had jumped on that particular streetcar of desire several years earlier.  Then I might have bought two of these.

Hope your day is a good one!

. . . but hopefully not a Deutschmark short (although I think Germany has switched to the euro):

Happy (belated) Birthday, lovesasa!

You're probably not reading this at the moment, but I will try to find a polka to play in your honor.