Some public schools are looking to raise the price on a school lunch for the next school year.
Yeah, that rectangular slab o'pizza is gonna cost you come September.
Marketplace has a segment about our food pricing and shortage problem called Food Fight. Check it out regularly as they do update it from time to time.
Some older arguments concerning the price of rice and the impact on the poor in general.
So, Shaquille O'Neal rapped some nastiness about Kobe Bryant recently. Personally, I find Kobe a reprehensible piece of filth who thinks it is okay to cheat on his wife as long as he isn't raping someone.
Shaq? Not sure I have any feelings about him.
That said, foul language aside, he is pretty much free to hack on Kobe all day long as far as I'm concerned.
The funny in a not-so-funny way part of this is that Shaq, now playing for Phoenix, is a volunteer police officer for Maricopa County. The sheriff there, the infamous Joe Arpaio - whose idea of fun is rounding up a bunch of racists deputies and rousting Latino neighborhoods on the off chance an illegal *might* be there - thinks that Shaq's language (using the "N" word for instance) is too racist for him and wants Shaq to turn in his badges.
Shaq can't rap a bad word, but Sheriff Joe gets to treat every brown person as an illegal alien he can abuse and deport? Give me a fucking break.
I have no idea why this happened, maybe I missed the memo, but there were a lot of stories related to email this week.
Apparently, one-fifth of Americans still haven't used email. We call them Appalachians and they believe any racist myth you tell them. Remember them? They vote for Hillary Clinton, and now John McCain.
NPR has a segment called Digital Culture. Throughout the week, I heard stories on how kids can handle multiple conversations at once over various media, a discussion of the etiquette of "friending" people online, and on one company's effort to avoid using email every Friday.
Also, a story on how people get attached and also overloaded on technology. In the article, it is called "disconnect anxiety", but I prefer the term created by Daniel Keys Moran in his fiction called "datastarve". Catchier, no?
Well, I updated to Movable Type 4 but now most of the entries have lost their date and the template is severely jacked up. Still deciding whether to roll back or not.
In the meantime, yes, this is still the blog, it is just shattered.
Stay tuned.
There's a lot of talk on how a McCain presidency would essentially be a third term for Bush. Even those who want to dispute that keep running into a reality that says differently. And it isn't even that McCain started out that way. NPR covers many times McCain was a so-called "maverick" in the past. That said, the more he runs for president, the more he flip-flops and discredits his own former views and embraces the Age of Bush.
An older article, but this one discusses whether McCain has a real problem with the veteran's vote. Given that he has recently shat on the new GI Bill, I would argue that it has gotten worse.
Since Official Space Alien Cindy McCain keeps trashing Michelle Obama, as does the whole of the GOP, we should ask why we should lay off the Second Mrs. McCain and her history as a thieving drug addict.
And, as 236.com continues to remind us whenever the GOP (or Trophy Wife McCain herself) attacks Michelle Obama:
Just in case you thought she was somehow an upstanding citizen, take the Cindy McCain quiz.
In the quiz, you'll notice a few references to John McCain calling his wife a derogatory name. Which still strikes me funny that Hillary Clinton feminists still plan to vote for such a vile person. Anyways, here's a NSFW and vulgar look at what could have happened...and didn't.
236 also does a VP assessment on Joe Lieberman similar to the one they did on Bobby Brady-Jindal last week.
