Some of you persevered and managed to post, technical difficulties notwithstanding, and we appreciate that. While the Manoloelves tinker behind the scenes and restore our blog to readability, life as we know it goes on, and that includes announcing the winners of our Friday Caption Contest.

bobbie-sue Says:
April 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am

The president finally had to admit it: we have a problem with overpopulation.

Congratulations and imaginary shoes to bobbie-sue! We’re a soft touch for a social issue around these parts. And which imaginary shoes will we hypothetically present? These: the slightly insane, yet superfantastic Veronica from Vince Camuto:

Yesterday my husband went grocery shopping.  He came home with approximately fifteen items.  The bill came out to over one hundred dollars, yet there was no filet mignon or fresh crab legs on the list.   More like apples, bananas, and whole wheat bagels. 

According to this lovely table from the Beareau of Labor Statistics, the year-over-year increase in inflation of food and beverage prices from March of last year to March of this year was a whopping 4.4 percent.  But as I stated above, I didn’t need that graph to tell me that the daily cost of living, from food to gasoline, has risen.