SUNDAY STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Don't know if the "cellphones are killing the bees" theory is accurate, but just saw a very subtle weapon in the fight against the theory. AT&T has a new commercial where it depicts it's "ever expanding coverage area" as blooming green-and-orange growth all over buildings, entire cities,and ultimately the country. The underlying message is that AT&T is somehow compatible with plant life - which means it couldn't be harming the bees, could it? Sure, and its coverage area really is 97%, LOST and family just happen to perpetually dwell and travel in the 3% non-coverage bubble . . . Newt Gingrich, standard bearer of family values? According to which of his three wives . . . most Americans seem alarmingly calm considering the "end" is approaching in a mere 6 days. This is not at all the panic depicted in "Armageddon," or "The Day After Tomorrow;" such apathy . . . "Water for Elephants" was great - right up until the time that Christoph Waltz nearly ends the picture by strangling another attractive blonde - will Tarantino scream copyright infringement . . . homemade cookies taste better when there are more people at home to enjoy them (thanks, cousin Bonnie for that recipe) . . .