George Lee trains the funlight on minimumwageland in this hilarious comediography about his adventures in retail.


Targeteer follows George as he sorts socks and zones underwear. He learns to speak a new language of specifically vague acronyms and gets lost in the big box. See George in Lingerie, Girl's Bottoms, Diapers and Women's Accessories. Watch him take orders from adolescents with walkie-talkies!




It's all here in this comediography of dramatic proportions. This is what the book "Nickel and Dimed" only hinted at. Author Barbara Ehrenreich subtitled it, "...On Not getting by in America". This is the funny and the unfunny of the way it really is in Retail Land, and unbelievable as it will seem, it's the real deal.

Brenda Lee, Candidate For Galveston City Council, District 2

As of March 30, Brenda Donaloio and I will have been married for 6 months. As we celebrate our anniversary quarterly, it will be our second.

Apparently bored with this wedded bliss thing, Brenda announced last week that she will run for City Council in District 2, replacing former Councilman Marc Hoskins, who lost his appeal to be reinstated after his ouster.

After a decade of community service as president of the San Jacinto Neighborhood Association and the Galveston Alliance of Island Neighborhoods, plus her volunteer work with a number of organizations here, Brenda is uniquely qualified. Frankly, as an outsider, she's done more for this City than most elected officials and she knows how to build beautiful neighborhoods, one family at a time. After all, Cities are nothing more than a collection of neighborhoods under the umbrella of what we affectionately refer to as "government". If she can bring the same success to the City Council that she has to the San Jacinto Neighborhood, Schools, Playgrounds, the Seawall and so many other worthy projects that benefit people, not politicians, she will not only serve all three terms, she will be an excellent candidate for Mayor. I can certainly attest to the time she has given to these various endeavors, because I've had to give up a lot of time with her as a result. This is a great thing for this little town, not only because of her background, but also because of her impeccable ethics, honesty, intelligence and common sense approach to complex objectives. Yes, those are unique and, well, RARE qualities in government... I'm so convinced she's superior, I plan to vote twice, an honored Galveston tradition!

Brenda will be visiting residents in District 2, attending events and busily campaigning until the special election is Saturday, May 12. She refuses to vote twice, so I am coaching her on flexibility.

Sweep the Seas of plundering murderers... I ran across a small item in the Chronicle last week, one of those environmental posts buried back by the weather map. It reported that Japanese fishermen in the small village of Tajii had killed 20,000 bottle-nose dolphins since last October! I was incredulous and sickened. They perform this wholesale slaughter of our aquatic counterparts once a year. The Tajii fishermen coax and herd the dolphins into coves, then begin to shoot or harpoon those not drowned in the nets, until the water runs red with the mammals' blood. The dolphins that aren't murdered are trapped and sold to acquariums and carnivals. Genreally, the captured ones are very young.

Is nothing to be done before the Japanese deplete the seas of all marine life? They have practically overfished their own Sea of Japan, using mammoth vacuum hoses that suck everything from the water. Their factory ships continue to illegally hunt whales. They've found loopholes in the law to get away with hunting other species as well, claiming it is not for consumption but research. There is an organization called SEA SHEPHERDS who are doing something about this. Often referred to as Greenpeace, they are far more aggressive. And effective. Take a look at their website... www.seahshepherd.org

These people harrass and even fire on the hunters, who now become the hunted, until they are disabled and forced to stop and return to port. It's drastic, indeed, but apparently the only way to get them to stop.

Al Gore is winning Oscars and making money from his investments in carbon offset services while scaring people into believing we are in dire danger from global warming. Everyone is talking about it, even young children. I personally believe the inconvenient truth is science fiction, and the Earth is cycling as it has done since creation. Some scientists predict a cooling period in the next 40 years.

We should be conserving energy and stopping pollution for thousands of better reasons than the hype surrounding global warming. It's just common sense and best for everyone worldwide to cut back on the wholesale gluttony of fossil fuels. Frankly, it won't matter much when the seas have been depleted of life. Humans and much of nature are dependent on the Oceans, far more than the Japanese, the Russians and Icelanders are dependent on whale meat and fish to the point of decimating the populations.

Read about it, then do something. If nothing else, try to stop this vile practice because you are moved by the heartbreaking tragedy inflicted on these intelligent and innocent creatures. The founder of sea shepherd said he began the group after looking directly into the eye of a harpooned whale and... well, see for yourself on their website.

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