All about me

Wise words from first-man-on-the-moon  and Purdue graduate Neil Armstrong, from his commencement address at the University of Southern California:

This is pretty lame:

The White House is doing something with its local TV interviews that it could not easily get away with in encounters with the White House press corps, which President Obama has been studiously ignoring: choosing the topic about which President Obama and the reporter will talk.

Yeah, go ahead and savor those tasty apple slices -- yeah, I'm talking to you, the one with the Big Mac in his grubby hands -- don't you want to be healthy instead of . . . whoops!

Pre-sliced apples distributed to fast-food and grocery chains across the country are among packaged products being recalled due to possible contamination with Listeria bacteria.

"Misery loves company" department:

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. magazine sales fell nearly 10% in the first half of 2012, a troubling sign for print publishers that suggests Americans are still being careful about discretionary spending.

This year, for the first time in history, more old albums will be sold than new ones. In the first half of 2012, "catalog" albums -- those released more than 18 months ago -- sold 76.6 million units. New units tallied 73.9 million. And the difference are likely to increase -- "new" will never outsell "old again." Why is this happening?

Here's a different kind of age-discrimination suit:

A 3.2 grade point average is not what it used to be.

Just in time for my fuddy-duddy "this dang music today is awful" stage comes this validation:

What? Women get the whole rest of the store, and I'm supposed to be excited about having one stinking aisle?

The idea was to give the lonely male lost in a supermarket a fun shopping experience, putting everything a man's man would need in one place. And New York City's Westside Market has gone and done justthat.

In the age of tweets and texting, are zero-tolerance grammarians going to have a smaller and smaller pool of acceptable applicants?