I've been pretty self-removed from this whole Mayor of Detroit scandal thing. I've started reading the past few days about the chain of events and what I don't get, and hopefully one of you smart and beautiful people can explain, is why on earth you would send your secret lover sexy text-messages on her work pager? Isn't it pretty common practice (or better word) for all communication on a company owned pager/cell/blackberry to be essentially owned by that company? And if so, why is there an issue of them being illegally obtained?

Does anyone else remember that cashiers used to have these books to look up and see if your credit card was a bad credit card. I never had to do it, but I remember going to low-end department stores like K-mart with my mom and having her look it up.

K-Mart is not low-end!

Sorry. Yeah, I remember those, at places like K-Mart and Shopco....

Does anyone else remember that cashiers used to have these books to look up and see if your credit card was a bad credit card. I never had to do it, but I remember going to low-end department stores like K-mart with my mom and having her look it up.

I had to do that at a drugstore I worked at in high school. God, that was tedious.

My handwriting is still pretty good, but I write longhand in a notebook sometimes instead of typing.

Does anyone else remember that cashiers used to have these books to look up and see if your credit card was a bad credit card.

yes! I totally remember those.

Isn't it pretty common practice (or better word) for all communication on a company owned pager/cell/blackberry to be essentially owned by that company? And if so, why is there an issue of them being illegally obtained?

the government still has to go through channels to get them, i.e. a subpoena or a search warrant. I have to admit that I really haven't been paying attention, so I don't know if that's the issue.

We were talking on one of my other boards about how politicians can't be faithful, and it was better in the good old days when there was a lower divorce rate, and one of my friends made an interesting pont. She was talking about this with her father, who's in his 70's, and he said that the only reason that divorce rates were lower is that people didn't bother to get divorced. A man would just not come home one day, and move to a new town. Getting a divorce was expensive, and the newly single woman often didn't have the money, so didn't bother.

We were talking on one of my other boards about how politicians can't be faithful

Vortex has another board! She's not faithful!

I am *starving*.

So am I. Of course, I'm now realizing that I totally forgot to eat breakfast. I'm not sure how, but I guess my morning gronk was more powerful than I thought.

My mom's genealogical research has turned up her grandfather's parents' census records. In 1920, they were both listed as divorced. In 1930, they were both listed as widowed, and living in the same town as each other and their kids. So, yeah, no reason to think the records of divorce were always accurate.

Vortex has another board! She's not faithful!

I thought that we were in an open relationship!

CHEATER CHEATER!

And if you think I'm standing next to you at that podium.....

And if you think I'm standing next to you at that podium.....

oh, I know better.