As I often tell my wife, mustard makes my life better. I love mustard. Mustard is one of those rare commodities in life that makes almost anything that is good, better. But which mustard to choose? When speaking of the “plain” variety, there really is only one choice, and that choice is the ‘Plochman’s, The Mustard Lover’s Mustard’.

Some people close to me have tried to tell me that “mustard is mustard”. Obviously those folks just don’t understand or appreciate quality mustard when they taste it. For those of us that understand how mustard can take a bad sandwich and make it good, or take a good sandwich and make it great, there really is a big difference in the mustard you choose to put on your food. Plochman’s is simply the best mustard you can get!

I took this directly from Anthony Martin’s blog. I love it!

“Aggressive stupidity is very different from the regular stupidity we all demonstrate from time to time. Being aggressively stupid is an art form and takes time to develop into maturity. You don’t just wake up one day and decide to become aggressively stupid, it takes effort and a determined passion for folly.

Aggressively stupid people chooses to be aggressively stupid, so they are much easier to pick on because deep down, we all know they really do know better. They choose to look at facts and ignore them. They choose to stick to one line of reasoning and die for it, even when that line of reasoning is obviously fallacious.

An aggressively stupid person enjoys developing an unsound argument. When you try to poke holes in their argument, they either get emotional, which is difficult to combat, or just shut you down.

It’s still important continue to engage the aggressively stupid. Just because past experiences may have been fruitless doesn’t mean we should give up. It’s far better to respond to aggressive stupidity with uncompromising intelligence. It’s also a good idea to pick one’s battles.”–Anthony Martin

“There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 - 1832

Last week a deer broke through a glass door at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital and wreaked havoc in several departments before falling into a blocked off service area similar to a stairwell. An employee was asked by authorities to go home and get his bow. He quickly dispatched his prey and took it home for dinner.

Dear reader, I pray that you will never face a day on which the task of toilet installation befalls you, but if it should might I suggest a Kohler? When my wife and I bought our house we knew we would have problems with the age of the plumbing, electricity, and just about everything else. Our house was built around 1880. If you have any notions of classic lines, and beautiful antiquity you can dismiss them. The house is old, but not antique by any stretch of the imagination.

The downstairs toilet has required constant plunging from day one–by constant I mean daily–by daily I mean four times a day. Several months ago the toilet quit working altogether. Being the handyman that I am not, I decided to replace the guts. The job went as most of my jobs go–bad. For months now we have had a toilet that needs plunging and that must be manually stopped to prevent it from running on indefinitely. This week I decided to take care of the problem once and for all.

I bought a premium toilet kit to replace the cheap guts I put in it the first time. This kit required removal of the tank. I decided the best thing to do was to go ahead and break the toilet beyond repair during installation of this kit so that I could return the kit and buy a brand new toilet instead. In this way I was able to kill three birds with one stone. First, I received the inestimable pleasure of installing a new toilet. Second, I was on the receiving end of ridicule from my wife for the price of the toilet, and finally I was able to spend more of the money my wife and I have been hoping to use for our ten-years in the waiting honeymoon. All in all, it was just a great break for me.

So where is the porcelain lining in this great toilet saga? The wonderful truth of the matter is that I wouldn’t avoid the ordeal even it was in my power to travel back in time and do so. Why would I be so self-destructive and heartless toward my beloved wife you might ask? Simply put. Because the Kohler K-3496 toilet is a wonder to behold and a pleasure to use!

I paid $270 for the Kohler K-3496 at Lowe’s and it was worth every penny! Never have I beheld such a work of plumbing and waste management beauty. Yes, the toilet is finely designed and ascetically pleasing. Yes, Kohler has designed a comfortable toilet that is ergonomically satisfying. But what makes the Kohler K-3496 stand out is the flush. Oh, the glorious flush! Gone are the days of plunging. Gone are the days of waste-ridden water flooding the floor. Each satisfying flush washes away the most dire of circumstances in a quick powerful flood of clean clear water leaving a gleaming white receptacle ready for the next dangerous adventure.

The salesmen told me that the only problem customers had with this toilet was that were compelled to return and buy more units to replace the lesser quality seats in their homes with the true throne–the K-3496. All I can say is if my wife and I don’t start talking again soon, I’m going back to Lowe’s and to hell with the honeymoon.