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My girlfriend, “I just love this pesto shit.”
So I asked, “What sort of animal shits pesto?”
She replied, “I don’t care, I just love this shit.”
When she read the post she thought she should have said, “I don’t know, but I want one for a pet. I just love this shit.”
I am probably the only person on the planet who has been kissed by Stephen Hawking… in a dream. Let me allow that to sink in for a minute, after all I am still trying to get over it myself.
In my dream I was at a house that was my parents, but not like any house they have ever lived in. Stephen was tooling around his wheel chair. Continue reading “Kissed by Stephen Hawking”
Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times Equality, a True Soul Food
He is summarizing a British report on the societal effects of wealth inequality.
Currently in America “the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans possess a greater collective net worth than the bottom 90 percent.” I do not understand why everyone, except the 1%, is not shocked and up in arms over this fact. But that is me.
The basic premise of the study, backed up by tons of data is this. With great wealth inequality you create a wide variety of personal and social stressors. There are increases in crime, Continue reading “Wealth Inequality = Social Problems”
After about 3 weeks of casually looking when I was in a store anyway, I found a pair of gloves for yard work. “Big deal”, you say. Yes, because my primary criteron was to find a pair not made in China. I had checked all the usual suspects, China*Mart, the China*Mart want-to-be Lowe’s, etc. Every pair of gloves I picked had been manufactured in China.
I was close to an Ace Hardware store Sunday, so I decided to buzz in and see what they had in the work glove department. I picked up several pair, and they were identified as having been made in Pakistan. While this is not American made, I had decided that I would not be able to find a pair of American made work gloves and would settle for a pair made anywhere but China.
I am 100% sure that Pakistan needs the work much more than China. Having worked for a large retailer I know that they make a show of making sure their products are manufactured in factories with some modicum of humane treatment. I can only hope Ace Hardware does this too.
I bought them. Thanks Ace Hardware.
It was sunny, but cold winter morning in St. Louis. Robin and I were 
preparing for our Sunday morning ritual of 99 cents bowling. We were eating that great American breakfast of cereal and milk before we ventured out in -10 degrees (Celsius – that is) weather. She had offered to fix some hot oatmeal or cream of wheat, but I had declined as we were running a little late.
Robin noticed them first as she was sitting closest to the window. The backyard was just full of squirrels acting…well squirrelly. There must have between 7 and 10 squirrels running across the yard, through the tree limbs, chasing each other. Continue reading “Some Squirrelly Insights”
From Robert Reich’s Blog…
The GOP Is Spreading a Big Fat Lie About the Economy — We Need Obama to Put an End to It
Susan G. Komen Foundation Elbows Out Charities Over Use Of The Word ‘Cure’
I’ve been donating to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for years. It is not large amounts of money, $100 to $200 a year. I rotate my charitable giving across several charities.
I first started giving to the Komen Foundation in honor of an ex-girlfriend that died of breast cancer. Continue reading “Divorcing Susan G. Komen”
No commentary…I’ll let you add your own. I just find this amusing.
Story in The Riverfront Times St. Louis’ alternative newspaper
A friend sent me the following link: Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination
The gist of the article is this. The 14th Amendment, specifically the Equal Protection clause, requires the states to provide equal protection to all people within its jurisdiction. Scalia is arguing that the Constitution and this amendment does not prohibit the passage of laws discriminating based on gender or sexual orientation. Continue reading “A New God Given Document”
We were walking outside the theatre. I had purposely waited this long to comment on the movie to Robin as I wanted our conversation to be private. No particular reason, it is just my preference. I begin gushing about the movie and how much I enjoyed it. I think I may have used the word fantastic in there somewhere. I ended my spontaneous critique with the comment, “But then I do not go to a lot of movies.” And I do not. Last movie I saw in a theatre before True Grit was Avatar.
There was a “gentleman” walking in front of us. He turns around and asks, “What movie did you see?” I’m thinking I did not invite you into the conversation, but politeness lead me to answer, “True Grit.” Continue reading “True Grit”