RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. Have you noticed that when Liberals talk about 'saving the planet' it's always your planet they want to save, never their own?

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane about 'spreading the wealth'. The Obama administration's concept of spreading the wealth reminds me of an old Abbott & Costello skit that had them dividing up some money.

Bud Abbott to Lou Costello: "Here's a dollar for you, and a dollar for me. Here's 2 dollars for you (giving him another dollar); and 1, 2 dollars for me (giving himself 2 dollars). Here's three dollars for you and 1, 2, 3 dollars for me...."

I wish I could find a video of that skit, but alas, no luck.

JOE NOCERA: My Faith-Based Retirement: "The 401(k) is a failed experiment. It is time to rethink it.”

Oh, absolutely. I started my 401(k) well after Mr. Nocera did, kept to a few simple rules (diversify; leave alone) and now -- at 67 -- I have more than enough money to live on even if Social Security and my pension go bankrupt.

That's because I have faith in my ability to take care of myself and my family. No, Mr. Nocera, the fact that you're incompetent doesn't mean that the 401(k) is a failure; it means that you're incompetent.

Much, much more over at Instapundit.

GOVERNMENT getting smaller in the U.S. A welcome trend, if true. But this is the New York Times reporting....

OBAMAFAIL: "The marketing team at Obama HQ might as well be focus-grouping Rachel Maddow and Debbie Wasserman-Schulz.” And Chris Matthews.

A SCLEROTIC GOVERNMENT: Each recession is longer and deeper than the one before it.

IF YOU’RE OF A CERTAIN AGE, older than dirt and a lot of rocks, you may remember amusing yourself on a long drive down the “blue roads” of yore reading the Burma Shave signs.

For those who never saw any of the Burma Shave signs, here is a quick lesson in our history of the 1930's, '40's and '50's. Before there were interstates, when everyone drove the old 2 lane roads, Burma Shave signs would be posted all over the countryside in farmers' fields. They were small red signs with white letters. Five signs, about 100 feet apart, each containing 1 line of a 4 line couplet ... and the obligatory 5th sign advertising Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream.

Here are more of the actual signs:

DON'T STICK YOUR ELBOW
OUT SO FAR
IT MAY GO HOME
IN ANOTHER CAR
BURMA SHAVE

TRAINS DON'T WANDER
ALL OVER THE MAP
'CAUSE NOBODY SITS
IN THE ENGINEER'S LAP
BURMA SHAVE

SHE KISSED THE HAIRBRUSH
BY MISTAKE
SHE THOUGHT IT WAS
HER HUSBAND JAKE
BURMA SHAVE

DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
TO GAIN A MINUTE
YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT
BURMA SHAVE

DROVE TOO LONG
DRIVER SNOOZING
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
IS NOT AMUSING
BURMA SHAVE

BROTHER SPEEDER
LET'S REHEARSE
ALL TOGETHER
GOOD MORNING, NURSE
BURMA SHAVE

CAUTIOUS RIDER
TO HER RECKLESS DEAR
LET'S HAVE LESS BULL
AND A LITTLE MORE STEER
BURMA SHAVE

SPEED WAS HIGH
WEATHER WAS NOT
TIRES WERE THIN
X MARKS THE SPOT
BURMA SHAVE

THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
OF PAUL FOR BEER
LED TO A WARMER
HEMISPHERE
BURMA SHAVE

AROUND THE CURVE
LICKETY-SPLIT
BEAUTIFUL CAR
WASN'T IT?
BURMA SHAVE

NO MATTER THE PRICE
NO MATTER HOW NEW
THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE
IN THE CAR IS YOU
BURMA SHAVE

A GUY WHO DRIVES
A CAR WIDE OPEN
IS NOT THINKIN'
HE'S JUST HOPIN'
BURMA SHAVE

AT INTERSECTIONS
LOOK EACH WAY
A HARP SOUNDS NICE
BUT IT'S HARD TO PLAY
BURMA SHAVE

BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL
EYES ON THE ROAD
THAT'S THE SKILLFUL
DRIVER'S CODE
BURMA SHAVE

THE ONE WHO DRIVES
WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING
DEPENDS ON YOU
TO DO HIS THINKING
BURMA SHAVE

CAR IN DITCH
DRIVER IN TREE
THE MOON WAS FULL
AND SO WAS HE
BURMA SHAVE

PASSING SCHOOL ZONE
TAKE IT SLOW
LET OUR LITTLE
SHAVERS GROW
BURMA SHAVE

From my email.

OBAMA ON SHARING: I get the credit, you get the blame.

MSNBC'S MARTIN BASHIR speaks ill of the Romneys. It's never too early for desperation from the Left.

POOR BABIES: On Being A Progressive Blogger. Maybe they should rethink their 'everything ought to be free' philosophy.

HOW TO FOLD the longest-flying paper airplanes.

Instructions for folding are here.

NORTH CAROLINA'S Pope Center for Higher Education Policy on the soon-to-come 'perfect storm' in higher education

[E]very student who graduates with a degree in a weak program, with poor academic skills, a poor work ethic, and a mind full of immature and anti-social attitudes, is a walking advertisement that higher education is a poor value.

'Sociologist' Dr. Harrison Schultz is the Pope Center's perfect example; watch as Sean Hannity deconstructs him on-air (second video).

The Pope Center has some very good ideas about how to repair the damage wrought by liberal 'deconstructionism' but short of abolishing tenure I doubt that much can be done with a group so enamored with rewriting history to match their dreams.

ED SCHULTZ: 'Damn Right I Would' Give Money to Obama if MSNBC Would Let Me. So quit. Then you could give all your money to Obama and it would improve MSNBC to boot.

A twofer.