Not that I think that immigration should be further limited (I'm a proponent for open borders) but a general argument would be that when we can't properly employ and take care of the people already here it doesn't necessarily make sense to keep letting more people in.

Why must teenage boys wear so much cologne or axe or whatever the hell it is? Ugh. I need to air out my car every time I take one of them anywhere.

Because it wastes less precious video game playing time to pour a bottle of it on than to take a shower.

My favourite tactic is to ask "What cologne is that.... and must you marinate?"

Uggh! I'm with you on that one. That stuff is nasty.

We went to see the Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles Christmas show last night. The guest performer was Melissa Manchester. The weird thing was that none of the numbers she performed were Christmas/holiday songs! She would come out on stage, sit down at the piano, and do one of her standard pieces without any interaction with the chorus (they just silently stood there on the risers until she was done) and then she would disappear until her next number.

One of the friends we went with commented that it was like they had a GMCLA show and a Melissa Manchester concert broke out. Bizarre...

The chorus did their usual spectacular job, though.

I'm editing photos this morning. I had a dream about this.

On the cologne topic, I particularly hate it when I'm eating in a cafe and a group of heavily-doused dudes takes a table near mine. The scent is so thick, I can actually taste it. Not an exaggeration. Even after I leave, I can taste that horrific stench on my tongue. (And, in my quaint Mayberry-esque town of Winter Garden, I sometimes have the same experience with sweet little old ladies who, I presume, have diminished olfactory senses, and douse themselves with nearly as much perfume in compensation.)

JWB - Did the crowd respond well to Melissa Manchester's parenthetical solos, or did they seem non-plussed? It does sound like a strange experience.