The Cook’s Thesaurus says, “Best (apples) for baking: Rome, Jonagold, Granny Smith, Pippin, Gala, Braeburn, Northern Spy, Gravenstein, Rhode Island Greening, York Imperial, Cortland, Winesap.”
Imagine – Right Livelihood
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
John Lennon ~ Imagine
One of the principles of the Buddha’s Continue reading “Imagine – Right Livelihood”
My Life Story in One Cartoon
Yes Sir…
Irony at One Police Plaza
The Merriam and Webster dictionary gives several definitions for irony, but the following definition works for the ensuing anecdotes. Irony – 1): incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2): an event or result marked by such incongruity.
Recently I had to go to downtown Memphis to One Police Plaza, not its real appellation, but perhaps it should be. Part of the complex is 12 stories high, but the overall impression is one of a gray depressing bunker. Continue reading “Irony at One Police Plaza”
Am I a 3 eyed Martian?
Here is another reason I worry about this country. These folks are dangerous and harmful to this country. If they believe what they say, they have serious mental problems. My belief is that they do for the ratings which is really for the money that ends up in their pockets, or to put it succinctly GREED. And it is greed is what has driven this country to the brink of economic depression.
This not sane, considered debate about policies and the direction this country needs to take. It is rabble rousing and propaganda for profit. And if that is love of country I am a 3 eyed Martian.
Truck Stops
Have you been in a truck stop or Interstate travel center lately? Anymore these places have TVs all over the place, and they are almost always tuned to FOX News. I worry deeply for this country.
Undereducated / Uneducated Americans
I have taken a more circuitous educational path than most folks. My career road has perhaps been even more tortured. Now factor in that I have lived in ten states and one foreign country. One of the advantages of such meanderings is that I have studied in several different fields, seen many types of jobs and industries, and I have been exposed to a wide range of people.
I do not see myself as atypical, but sometimes I wonder. I work in a technical field, computer programming. Most of the folks I work with are college educated, and many are very smart. What does surprise me is the narrowness of their knowledge and world view. The folks discussed below are smart and successful in their fields, but the following anecdotes do illustrate my point.
I have an Indian co-worker that related to me a story about his birthday which is on the same day as Mohandas Gandhi. Continue reading “Undereducated / Uneducated Americans”
Is this racist?
I don’t like this man. And at the same time I sometimes feel like we see racism where it ain’t.
Howard Cosell (not old enough to remember who this is?) lost his job over a “monkey” remark.
I can see this clip as racist, or given my opionion of Washington in general I can see it as a statement of the reality of the place.
What do you think?
Glenn Beck refuses to define ‘white culture’
This man can dissemble with the best of them. I could make some more comments, but watch the video. He pretty much makes an idiot of himself. It is so sad to think that FOX is the number 1 cable news outlet, and this jerk has the most popular show on that propaganda machine.
Michael Franti: Hey World(Don’t Give Up)
…about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine” ~ Woody Guthrie