(warning watching  Glenn Beck may be dangerous to your sanity)

eructation \ih-ruhk-TAY-shuhn\, noun: 

The act of belching; a belch.

Special note:  Sometimes I know it can’t be helped but I was taught to avoid burping obnixiously or in public.  When the situation did arise we offered an “excuse me” out of courtesy and respect to those around us.

Asserting that California needs “someone with an insider’s knowledge but an outsider’s mind” to pull the state out of its economic doldrums, Attorney General Jerry Brown strode into the governor’s race Tuesday morning after taking months to make the inevitable official.

In a 3½-minute video announcement taped from his campaign headquarters in Oakland and transmitted through his campaign Web site, his Facebook page and YouTube, Brown vowed guide the state into a new “period of prosperity.”

“Our state is in serious trouble, and the next governor must have the preparation, the knowledge and the know-how to get California working again,” said Brown, 71, who is seeking to return to the governor’s office after serving from 1975 to 1983.

Watch the video after the jump.

Says the company spokesman:

“Clearly times are still hard and everyday we’re all looking for ways to stretch hard-earned dollars farther and farther,” said John Dillon, Vice President Marketing, Denny’s Corporation. “By offering unlimited refills on not just one but two favorite items, we are able to provide even more everyday value on items our guests love. Who doesn’t want seconds of pancakes and fries… especially when they’re free?”

Yes, who doesn’t want seconds or thirds or fourths.

Also who wants to get started on the class-action lawsuit for when we all die of cholesterol poisoning?

You can open or download the official, full press release in Word here:

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The only problem? The menu. Perhaps I’m too young to fully appreciate foreign cuisine but when I order something called “kobe beef tartare” I expect y’know… meat. What we got instead could easily be mistaken for cat food wrapped in a cucumber. Now Wikipedia tells me that a tartare “is a preparation of finely chopped raw meat or fish optionally with seasonings and sauces” but I wish the menu would have told me that before hand. The other thing we got was the ravioli’s which were disappointing. They tasted good and all, after they stopped boiling so I could actually put them in my mouth without burning anything, but they weren’t filling to say the least.

Am I expecting too much? Maybe. Yet for $12-$14 I’m surprised these people can look me in the eye when they serve it.

Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.  –Tom Jones

I can TOTALLY relate.  Lol. 

It’s always fascinating the type of information one can gather from the various social networking sites that exist today.

This map shows regions based on friend links from Facebook. Turns out Los Angeles really is the center of the universe and Seattle is really boring. Also? Avoid Utah: it’s full of Mormons who really, really like Twilight.