Things I wanted to check out, but the Sickly Snail wouldn't let me...readers, would youall rather see a list like this, or wait'til I've actually viewed each link and can comment on more than the thumbnail image and first paragraph that showed up in the feed? Categories: AAA Awesome, Adult Content Squick, Animals, Bloom County, Civilians Fighting Crime, Confederate Flags, Crafts, Cute, Fun Stuff, GMO's, Kid Stuff, News of the Weird, Obamacare, Outer Space, Philosophy, Politics, Writing.
AAA Is for Awesome News
Years ago I posted an article about organic food stores in and near Kingsport, Tennessee, that mentioned a store called The Shouting Sprout. I mentioned that the contact information I had for that store had gone out of date, and begged readers to update it. Apparently the store floundered along without phone or Internet access for a while, then went out of business. But here, at last, is a link to a beautifully simple, even though photo-enhanced, Blogspot maintained by one of the Shouting Sprout suppliers. A couple of those small farmers in Tennessee to whom being nice may help you get organic goodies.
Adult Content Squick (the Planned Parenthood Scandal)
For
those who don't know, “squick” is cyberjargon for something that
turns your stomach independently of whether you think it's good, bad,
or morally-neutral. Sylvia Maner Nickels, a Kingsport
Daily News columnist,
has a Blogspot that even the Sickly
Snail can
open. So, out of all the links to the fracas about the Planned
Parenthood guy allegedly trafficking in human body tissue, I clicked
on SMN's. She takes a conservative view of the issue. All I'll say
here is that everything about this issue (including my comment on SMN's blog) is one big squick. Not
recommended if you're eating, or just ate.
Animals
Another adventure
of Valentino at dogpawsitivetidbits.com.
Bloom County...Revives?
Coincidence?
My last LJ post replied to the question, “Which comic strip from
the past would you like to see revived?” Like all good
baby-boomers, I instantly thought of “Peanuts,” then “Pogo,”
then thought that I could not
imagine
those characters in this century. What about “Calvin & Hobbes,”
which some people had picked? What about...“Bloom County”? I
could not imagine. But Berke Breathed is still alive, unlike Charles
Schultz and Walt Kelly, and he
can
imagine. I think he must have set up that question just to see how
many people would mention “Bloom County,” and be delighted. (Btw
I saw the premiere of the new “Bloom County” cartoons courtesy of
Language Log, a site created for and by people with advanced degrees
in linguistics and/or a language and its history and literature...for fun. This site defines "ludic cerebration" and gives at least one example a day.)
Civilians Fighting Crime
At The Blaze, Dave
Urbanski shares another heartwarming story...this time the civilian
crimebuster is a firefighter. Never mess with anyone who fights
fires. (Btw, I've fought a fire.)
Kaitlyn
Schallhorn's story, also at The Blaze, features an unarmed man
fighting crime with a stick.
Confederate Flags
Megyn
Kelly on behalf of her Confederate ancestors at
ntlconsulting.blogspot.com. Y'know, I really think the cool,
twenty-first-century thing to do here is to declare a moratorium on
the whole flag flap. I don't like censorship. I've said
that.
If we want to talk about racism, let's talk about the truly racist
idea of those HUD block grants to yuppie neighborhoods being
contingent on the construction of slummy high-rise apartment
buildings that must house a specified number of “black and
Hispanic” families, including children who need and deserve to be
in single-family houses with yards. Let's explore why it's better for
children, regardless of color or ethnicity, to have free time and
private space, even if it's only the shade of one tree...and why our
profoundly racist federal government wants to coop those children up
in slums, where their instinctive efforts to define and claim private
space are likely to take the form of aggressive hostility.
Crafts
The
thumbnail photo in my Blogspot feed promises a beautiful, complex
patchwork quilt at marshasspot.com.
Cute Things
At
ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com, the feed promises a link to a movie
an indoor cat might like to watch...wildlife videos! (Would I ever
consider buying, renting, or downloading a movie for a cat? During
the two weeks after just one cat has been spayed, I would. None of
the resident cats at the Cat Sanctuary has taken much interest in
technological stuff, although Mackerel and Bisquit each tried typing, but a few years ago this web site was briefly
co-hosted by a cat who liked to chase the cursor around the
screen...Viola the Cybercat. She might've got into movies.)
Fun Stuff
Those
who remember “The Barefoot” from AC will want to read “The New
Adventure and the Open Road” at thebarefoot.wordpress.com.
GMO's
At
freedomfightersofamerica.blogspot.com, there's reported to be some
sort
of link to information about how GMO corn increased pesticide use by
300%. This is the sort of link I'd like to check out before sharing.
It might be a video.
Kid
Stuff
Discussion
of car seats, with video and cute baby images, at daddytypes.com.
News of the Weird
Jon
Street reports a weird news story from Tennessee...I don't so much
want to read about how the counterfeiter thought the President could
be blamed for her crime. I just want to know if this bit of weirdness
came from Hawkins County. At theblaze.com.
Obamacare
The
President can definitely be blamed for this weird story. Actually,
it's sort of planned. A federal office planted eleven bogus
applicants for Obamacare to test the system, and the system
re-qualified them for benefits this year. The story came courtesy of
The Blaze, but it's regular AP News that may be in your local
newspaper—if your local newspaper hasn't cut out two-thirds of its
worthwhile content due to lack of advertising, the way the Kingsport
Times-News has
done.
At
ntlconsulting.blogspot.com, Alieta Eck, M.D., explains more about how
insurance companies inflate the cost of medical care.
Adult Content Squick
For
those who don't know, “squick” is cyberjargon for something that
turns your stomach independently of whether you think it's good, bad,
or morally-neutral. Sylvia Maner Nickels, a Kingsport
Daily News columnist,
has a Blogspot that even the Sickly
Snail can
open. So, out of all the links to the fracas about the Planned
Parenthood guy allegedly trafficking in human body tissue, I clicked
on SMN's. She takes a conservative view of the issue. All I'll say
here is that everything about this issue is one big squick. Not
recommended if you're eating or just ate.
Animals
Another adventure
of Valentino at dogpawsitivetidbits.com.
Bloom County...Revives?
Coincidence?
My last LJ post replied to the question, “Which comic strip from
the past would you like to see revived?” Like all good
baby-boomers, I instantly thought of “Peanuts,” then “Pogo,”
then thought that I could not
imagine
those characters in this century. What about “Calvin & Hobbes,”
which some people had picked? What about...“Bloom County”? I
could not imagine. But Berke Breathed is still alive, unlike Charles
Schultz and Walt Kelly, and he
can
imagine. I think he must have set up that question just to see how
many people would mention “Bloom County,” and be delighted. (Btw
I saw the premiere of the new “Bloom County” cartoons courtesy of
Language Log, a site created for and by people with advanced degrees
in linguistics and/or a language and literature...for fun.)
Civilians Fighting Crime
Dave
Urbanski shares another heartwarming story...this time the civilian
crimebuster is a firefighter. Never mess with anyone who fights
fires. (Btw, I've fought a fire.)
Kaitlyn
Schallhorn's story, also at The Blaze, features an unarmed man
fighting crime with a stick.
Confederate Flags
Megyn
Kelly on behalf of her Confederate ancestors at
ntlconsulting.blogspot.com. Y'know, I really think the cool,
twenty-first-century thing to do here is to declare a moratorium on
the whole flag flap. I don't like censorship. I've said
that.
If we want to talk about racism, let's talk about the truly racist
idea of those HUD block grants to yuppie neighborhoods being
contingent on the construction of slummy high-rise apartment
buildings that must house a specified number of “black and
Hispanic” families, including children who need and deserve to be
in single-family houses with yards. Let's explore why it's better for
children, regardless of color or ethnicity, to have free time and
private space, even if it's only the shade of one tree...and why our
profoundly racist federal government wants to coop those children up
in slums, where their instinctive efforts to define and claim private
space are likely to take the form of aggressive hostility.
Crafts
The
thumbnail photo in my Blogspot feed promises a beautiful, complex
patchwork quilt at marshasspot.com.
Cute Things
At
ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com, the feed promises a link to a movie
an indoor cat might like to watch...wildlife videos! (Would I ever
consider buying, renting, or downloading a movie for a cat? During
the two weeks after just one cat has been spayed, I would. None of
the resident cats at the Cat Sanctuary has taken much interest in
technological stuff, but a few years ago this web site was briefly
co-hosted by a cat who liked to chase the cursor around the
screen...Viola the Cybercat.)
Fun Stuff
Those
who remember “The Barefoot” from AC will want to read “The New
Adventure and the Open Road” at thebarefoot.wordpress.com.
GMO's
At
freedomfightersofamerica.blogspot.com, there's reported to be some
sort
of link to information about how GMO corn increased pesticide use by
300%. This is the sort of link I'd like to check out before sharing.
It might be a video.
Kid
Stuff
Discussion
of car seats, with video and cute baby images, at daddytypes.com.
News of the Weird
Jon
Street reports a weird news story from Tennessee...I don't so much
want to read about how the counterfeiter thought the President could
be blamed for her crime. I just want to know if this bit of weirdness
came from Hawkins County. At theblaze.com.
Obamacare
The
President can definitely be blamed for this weird story. Actually,
it's sort of planned. A federal office planted eleven bogus
applicants for Obamacare to test the system, and the system
re-qualified them for benefits this year. The story came courtesy of
The Blaze, but it's regular AP News that may be in your local
newspaper—if your local newspaper hasn't cut out two-thirds of its
worthwhile content due to lack of advertising, the way the Kingsport
Times-News has
done.
At
ntlconsulting.blogspot.com, Alieta Eck, M.D., explains more about how
insurance companies inflate the cost of medical care.
Outer Space
Oliver Darcy's post at The Blaze reached me first...I'm sure every newspaper and web page will be reporting on images the space probe sent back from Pluto.
Philosophy
Provocative
thoughts on human nature at blog.dilbert.com.
Politics
A Tea
Party that shall be nameless shared an e-mail on behalf of a
candidate this web site doesn't even want to name in a sentence that
contains the word “presidential.” This person is well and widely
known for his unconvincing hairpiece, and this web site has long
believed his hair to be an accurate reflection of his character. The
headline of the e-mail quotes this dude as having threatened a
Mexican druglord with a violent act that is commonly used as a
metaphor for “humiliate in defeat.” So, if the serious Republican
candidates wanted to make my day and form a coalition, this coalition
might find a use for this guy after all. Not as head of, but as a
consultant to, the Immigration & Naturalization Service. He does,
as Linked In likes to put it, know about planes; he might have an
untapped talent for deporting drug goons.
Meanwhile,
at noisyroom.net/blog, there's a KeyWiki Leak about what Donna
Brazile's been up to lately. If you weren't in Washington in the
1980s-1990s and haven't been out of the city for the past ten years,
this may not pique your curiosity; it piques mine.
Writing
I did
click
on this one, because I thought it was the sort of web site the Sickly
Snail could
handle. It's cool to see how many readers Jerry Jenkins has at all
different stages of literary development.
I really enjoy how you are adding your opinion and a little thought to each link you have viewed and shared. Sometime reading what someone else thinks helps pull a reader in when the title doesn't cut it enough.
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