Choose Insanity in Howard County. Yes, this is the bumper sticker I just saw on a coworker’s desk. Charming. Photo submissions welcome. I work with the originator of the bumper stickers.
What else do we have?
Embrace Hostility.
Choose Senility.
Others?
Entries Tagged as ‘Choose Civility’
March 25, 2009
Choose Insanity.
December 21, 2008
It’s Miss Jessie, please
This past week, at a number of holiday parties with both adults and kids, I was reminded of how irksome I find it when parents introduce me to their children as “Jessie.”
Yo. I’m “Miss Jessie” to your child. Period. Parents, it’s not your prerogative. Assume a preference for a higher level of formality, after all, [...]
October 9, 2008
Embrace Hostility
There’s a new* blog in town. It’s called Embrace Hostility in Howard County, and you can find it here. Quite a few local bloggers, have written with some inquisition and exploration into the county’s Choose Civility initiative. If nothing else, the initiative brings up the subject. Know what I mean? Having a “Choose Civility in [...]
July 24, 2008
Stealing Civility
Mike of “Do I Amuse You” has a great post on choosing civility. Or stealing civility, in his particular case. If you’ve yet to discover his blog, I recommend it for some cynical, humorous and always-logical perspective on Life and Such.
Thanks to all the bloggers (and blog readers) who came out to the Hoco BlogTale [...]
July 4, 2008
Choose Senility
Is it a lone prankster? A disgruntled group of grumps? A Freedom Movement, here in our li’l patch of historically preserved suburbs?
I’m talking here of the micro-vandalism witnessed on my mother’s car. Well, to be more accurate, the vandalism perpetrated on her magnetic Choose Civility bumper sticker, which happens to be on her car. I [...]
May 22, 2008
Choose common sense.
I live in a community engaged in a relatively new initiative called Choose Civility. While the newspapers report on the actual county program and activities in and around this initiative, I prefer the tone of blog posts about civility. Here’s one of my favorite bloggers, writing his take on Choosing Civility. Now, his ideas are [...]
April 27, 2008
No Computers on Saturdays or Sundays
So says the sign.
I like it. I like the sign, the sentiment and the effect.
See, I was meeting someone at Bean Hollow in Ellicott City this morning. (Hopping, it was … ) I saw this posted sign. I found it quite civil … and a reasonable request, indeed.
April 7, 2008
Choose Civility on the Kojo Nnamdi Show
Valerie Gross, Hoco Library’s executive director, was one of two guests on today’s Kojo Nnamdi Show. The topic? None other than the Choose Civility initiative. A couple of my blog posts about Choose Civility – What to do when people are rude and Bring back the nod – were mentioned by Ms. Gross.
Listen here to [...]
April 5, 2008
Be nice, or what?
Wall Street Journal writer Barry Newman covers Choose Civility in Howard County … and then some. You’ll probably recognize a few bloggers in the article.
March 10, 2008
Looking back on Choose Civility
I was talking with a friend a couple days ago about the Choose Civility in Howard County initiative. And about my various and sundry blog posts about my experience with the topic. I decided to take a look at what I’ve blogged and tagged as “Choose Civility” in the past year. Here is the result [...]
March 6, 2008
What to do when people are rude.
I probably should have used Title Case capitalization in that headline, as it is part of a book title. What book? It’s Dr. PM Forni’s, of Choosing Civility fame, second book, and it’s called The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude.
Anyhoo. I saw this book title today and told my friend and [...]
February 28, 2008
Cosmic Justice
I host a lot of parties. Always have. And, of late, I’ve become quite an advocate of The RSVP. You know, répondez s’il vous plaît? Or, in American ) “You comin’? Let me know so I know how much food and drink, props, etc. to get.“
Well, for all my pushing, pulling, advocating and preaching, [...]
December 19, 2007
F@#%ing Bitch
Yep, that’s what I was just called. But, it’s a great story with a wonderful result.
See, I was in between appointments and zipped over to Central Library to do some work. At one of the six-up computer tables, six of us were working quietly. Then one gentleman got a cel phone call, which he answered. [...]
November 5, 2007
Be hospitable
If you’ve ever endured watching even 15 minutes of TV with me, you’d know that I watch TV just as much for the commercials, trend-spotting and cultural insights as for the programming. And I’m vocal about what I see. It was with just this lens that I watched The Hilton Family’s latest “Be hospitable” commercial. [...]
September 24, 2007
Electronic Bumper Stickers
Do you find yourself supporting the “Choose Civility in Howard County” initiative, but you’re not a fan of bumper stickers? Even when the “sticker” is actually a magnet? Well, there is a modern-day alternative for you: Join the “Choose Civility in Howard County” Facebook group. Here you’ll find links to local blog posts about “choosing [...]
July 26, 2007
Racist Bitch!
“Racist bitch!”
Yep. That’s what I was called, one afternoon this past spring, when I asked a group of tweenagers at the East Branch Library to, please, be quiet.
One of them turned, curled lip in position and muttered in my direction. Her intended message: You can’t tell me what to do, bitch.
My blood began to boil. [...]
July 24, 2007
Jews Civility
That’s what she thought she heard me say.
“Jews Civility! What’s that?”
See, we were at a looooong conference, strategically settled in the back of the room. I whispered to my friend that I was cutting out to go to a Choose Civility Partners meeting, where the American City Girls are a partner. And she heard, from [...]
June 14, 2007
Slap it on
I just picked up my “Choose Civility in Howard County” car magnet. (Thanks to Freemarket for the heads up and Mr. Cabral at the Central Library for the tip.) The magnets are really elegant! Simple, understated and clear … and free at any library branch.
On my way in to pick up a car magnet, I [...]
