Steve Stycos on Markets, Land Deals, and Happenings in Cranston
School Committee member Steve Stycos provided the following update through his e-newsletter: MARKET GROWS Alan and Bob Fratantuono of Moosup River Farm attended the market last week, selling asparagus and Ingrid Fratantuono’s preserves. Other vendors, including Warwick beekeeper Bernie Bieder, will join the market during the next month. Last week, Richard Duquette, who in past [...]
Somewhere in America
Lest we forget, it was not so long ago that Americans risked their lives to defend our dignity and help to undo the curse of racial segregation. I googled ‘lunch counter’ and got a number of these images. This is from the Smithsonian, and I don’t know the names of the young men or the [...]
Be Very Afraid
Rand Paul in Kentucky. When the Repubs go totally over the edge the hope of a two-party system with a real debate recedes. Is this significant, a measure of the tone of the debate? HEBRON, Ky. — After winning Kentucky’s Republican primary Tuesday night, Bowling Green ophthalmologist Rand Paul refused to take the call of [...]
Nominal Purity
I’m posting this for a laugh before work. A blogger reports on a plan to remove all Spanish place names from Arizona. He’s an academic. His name is Professor Smart—. Do you think this might be satire?
Wages o’ Sin
Bristol Palin is on the fast track to financial success with a new career as a public speaker. She’s said to be charging $30,000 for a few hours of lecturing on chastity and abstinence. All over this great nation of ours, there are young Christians who have kept their virginity pledge. And no one is [...]
One Born Every Minute
I remember the days when there was nothing to drink except the socialist government nanny-state fluid that came out of the tap. For us Providence residents, that’s from the Scituate Reservoir, where fish swim around and poop. Back then we didn’t have the modern luxury of water packed by friendly non-profit family businesses like Coca-Cola, [...]
We Are All Arizonians
Or is it Arizonans? Arizonites? Whatever Sarah Palin said. If you get caught jaywalking in Arizona, you’d better be prepared to SHOW YOUR PAPERS. Unless you can say who won the World Series in ’73, or remember the words to the theme from Gilligan’s Island. Okay, I’m just speculating on quick and easy ways to [...]
Just Give It Up For Adoption
More in today’s papers about the debate over legal abortion. I want to post a link to a column in last week’s New York Times, written by a woman who chose to have a baby and release him for adoption. There’s happiness and sorrow in the story. It’s not a simple story, and not finished [...]
Don’t Take it Personal
I’m having a rather depressed weekend, a good time to read Bill McKibben’s ‘Eaarth’. This book outlines the folly of making exponential and infinite growth the basis for human civilization. Jeeze, I took math in high school and even I can see that he’s right. It’s all in the numbers. McKibben paints a very grim [...]
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