Note an evolving social media phenomenon.
As anyone who has read my blogs know, I do not watch the Super Bowl for the game. It’s all about the commercials for me. And I become especially interested when there’s controversy regarding a commercial. This year has not been a disappointment. Godaddy.com pulled a controversial commercial before it even aired during the Super Bowl.
Whenever I went skiing as a teen my mother was not pleased, would tell me it is dangerous, and when she realized that I was going to go skiing anyway she would say to please be careful. I did not think it was ever dangerous. And I poo pooed the warning to be careful.
In fact I always say as I get older that as long as I can bend down to buckle my boots, I will keep skiing.
Yesterday, skiing with friends, I hit a patch of ice, which happens from time to time.
The recent outbreak of measles has thrown this issue front and center. If you haven't heard, The Washington Post has indentified Disneyland in California as Ground Zero in the current outbreak.
We recently flew out of LaGuardia on Delta and I was amazed by the upscale 21st Century Delta Terminal. We usually fly American from LAG and the contrast was shocking.
Shocking!
Now I know why LaGuardia has been called a third World airport.
Maybe American is third World, but not Delta.
Plus Delta has direct flights to Key West!
This past Tuesday marked the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in 1945. My Mother had been transported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few months earlier. Her “liberation” would not come until a few months later.
The talk the past week and a half has been all about Tom Brady, Bill Belichek and the New England Patriots. The Deflate-gate controversy has the entire sports world buzzing (and justifiably many sick of it). We won't even mention the two week-long continuing flurry of "deflated ball" jokes.