People who live in Arizona are often given a bad rap for their use of energy. After all, air conditioning all of those homes can’t be cheap.

But, in actuality, it is cheaper to live in Arizona than it is to live in Michigan. Sure, the people in Arizona have to cool their houses by 30 – 40 degrees on really hot days but us folks here in Michigan have to warm our homes 70 – 80 degrees on really cold days. Plus, air conditioners are more efficient than most furnaces.

So, unless you have a really efficient furnace and an extremely insulated house, living in Arizona is a greener option.

I was reading an article the other day about a couple in Rome that got caught having sex in a confessional during mass. The church was not impressed. They asked the Bishop for forgiveness and it was granted. Then the Bishop reconsecrated the church.

I guess when you’re hot you’re hot.

The other day, I was in a meeting. It was a kick off meeting for a project that we are working on. Several people from our vendor were present and we had donuts. Our project manager noted the presence of donuts and announced that she liked to have a celibatory kick off meeting.

Now, I am sure that she meant ‘celebratory’ but she said celibatory none the less. Still, it got me to thinking. We are close with our vendors but not that close. Or I should say that I am not that close but I can’t speak for my peers.

I guess that what she was saying was that while we will eventually get screwed, we want to have at least one meeting that is celibatory.

You can now buy virginity. No, you are not buying a virgin. Rather, you are paying a doctor to restore your virginity. For $3,000, a doctor in France will perform a hymenoplasty on a woman. This effectively restore her hymen so that she appears to be a virgin.

Why is this important you ask? Well, most of these women are Muslims who want to get married to Muslim men. And, most Muslim men want to marry virgins. So, to deceive their husbands into thinking that they are the one only, these women have their hymen restored.

So, I guess these women can enjoy the best of both worlds.

Get married or be fired. That is what a company in Iran is telling it’s employees. They have until September to find a spouse and get married.

I suppose some will get married rather than loose their jobs. This may just be the incentive that some couples need to tie the knot.

And then, there will be couples that have a marriage of convenience. These people are not sleeping together or maybe not even living together, but they are legally married.

Then there will be the couples that pretend to be married. Like on some ridicules sitcom, they will attempt to pull off some fantastic rouse only to get fired later on.

And finally, there will be the people who will simply change jobs. No fuss no muss.

Maybe they will find a job in the Antarctic.

The research facility in the Antarctic is getting ready for winter. For the next 3 months, the 125 people at the base will be with out sun light.  And, nothing gets in or out during this time period. So, in preparation for this seclusion, the base has stocked up on essential supplies, including 16, 500 condoms.

So, let me do the math here. If we assume that half of the staff are males and there is one condom for every two people, that equates to having sex 264 times over the next 90 days or approximately 3 times a day per couple. Pretty impressive even for my standards.

Well, I guess it is better than watching reruns of I Love Lucy.

What do houses, SUVs and Boats have in common?  Nobody wants them.

Because so many people have had to leave the state in search of work there is a glut of houses for sale. So, if they sell at all, houses are sell for their appraised value and no more.

Likewise with SUVs, trucks and power boats. With high fuel prices, people are looking to get rid of their RV stuff and their gas guzzlers. Again, these items are selling cheap. And, nobody wants them.

It’s a buyers market.

Don’t burden your heirs! That is what the ad said. How are you burdening them? By leaving them with your jewelry thats how.

Instead, the ads wants you to sell your jewelry to them. Of course, with the bad economy, people are sell off their jewelry so the pawn shops are flooded with the stuff. And, there is so much of the stuff that it is going for only about 25 cents on the dollar. So, it really is a buyers market right now.

But, I disagree with the ad. Instead of selling off your jewelry right now when the market is so bad, why not let your heirs decide instead. Who know, maybe they will like the stuff that you bought.

I saw an ad in the paper the other day.  It was from a jewelry store.  The store wanted people to sell them their junk gold.

Now, I don’t know what junk gold is.  If I have something that is gold, that means that I paid a lot of  money for it.  And because I paid a lot of money for it that means that I really wanted it.  So, I wouldn’t consider it to be junk.

What is next? Junk Diamonds?

Cape Cod is missing a light house. The 30 foot metal structure came up missing 80 years ago. Well, it has now been found on the coast of California.

Now, you would think that someone would have noticed a light house being moved from Cape Cod to the California coast. But, I guess since it was moved during prohibition, law enforcement was probably more concerned about bathtub gin than light houses.

I wonder if the light house will have to be returned?  California dreamin.