* Bumper sticker sign of the times: “Critical Thinking: The Other National Deficit.”
* “Dogs are God’s way of apologizing for your relatives.” Spot on.
* Here are some items that made an earlier Festivus grievance list: Gasparilla trespissing, abandoned scooters, elevator gas-passers, media hurricane melodramatics, phone trees, tech help from Bangladesh, LOUD restaurants and Progressive, Allstate and Aflack TV ads.