If 60 is the new 50, how come all the 60th Birthday Cards look exactly like Sympathy Cards?

Maybe 65 is the new 60 (with some oversight). The Civil Aviation Organization has ruled that a pilot can fly until age 65 as long as another pilot under 60 is in the cockpit.

If a member of Congress gets convicted of a crime, how come he (rarely she?) gets to keep their pension? Can anyone say, "Above the law"?

If we had the good idea to insert in the Afghani and Iraqi constitution a provision that requires 25% of the national representatives be female, why isn't that a good idea for America?

'Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for speaker of the House." Couldn't agree with you more, Nancy Pelosi.

If you have a face lift and you look 30, but your neck looks 70, what's the point?

What was wrong with shop in high school anyway? Are all our high school students headed for college? Aren't some people perfectly suited to fix our HVAC system? And isn't that a worthy job? And don't we need lots of these people? Can we stop insisting that all of our students need to take a physics class to graduate from High School?

Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive