THE VENT

How can a $12-an-hour wage earner afford an automobile built by a $30-an-hour wage earner?

Do the advertisers and media who insist on saying “the holidays” think we don’t know what day they’re talking about? Enough of using “holiday” as a euphemism for “Christmas!”

It’s incredible. Citigroup is on the verge of collapse, and it’s run by Harvard MBAs. I got my little business degree from Kennesaw State, and my company is still going strong.

I’m convinced the left-wing talk-show hosts are on e-mail distributions to get their talking points. They all sound utterly ridiculous at the same time.

Hey Hannity, Limbaugh, Hewitt, Coulter, etc., real conservatives don’t whine!

I’m disappointed that I’m Time/Life’s Man of the Year, and it still hasn’t helped my sex life.

“The Real Housewives of Atlanta” have more extensions than AT&T.

Shirley Franklin, why is it OK for you to panhandle the federal government?

The U.S. Navy says they won’t rescue pirated ships because they wouldn’t know what to do with the captured pirates. Uh … walking the plank would be good.

If someone could get Vernon Jones and Glenn Richardson in the same room, I’ll contact NASA and have them call off their search for the center of the universe.

I am running low on cash. I haven’t handled my affairs that well. When do I get my appointment with Congress to beg for money?

Too bad Lanier is so low; I would like to try this piracy gig. It looks like it pays well.

All you folks that say that health care isn’t a right but something you have to work for had better pray you don’t get sick when you lose your job and your health care with it.

Obama’s Cabinet is looking like “Bill Clinton 2.0.”

The people complaining about Barack Obama’s choices must not remember when Jimmy Carter came to D.C. with a bunch of outsiders who didn’t know anything about Washington. You can’t change things if you don’t know how they work.

It is too late to buy American. Buying American limits your choices and often offers inferior products. The unions and punishing taxes make buying American almost impossible.

Small towns are great. Everybody knows what everybody is doing. The weekly newspaper just tells who got caught.

As soon as Bush gets back to Crawford, Texas, all the cartoonists can apply for a government bailout, since their industry will be in a material crisis.

To the venter who asks if it’s OK to play the Dixie Chicks CDs again, I never stopped. They were right all along.

I saw a blurb in USA Today that about 72 percent of drivers say they multi-task while driving. Yesterday, on the way, to work I saw a lady clipping coupons while she was driving. No joke.

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