The screen porch has really not been the most pleasant place to be for the last two days. Early Thursday morning the Professional Bad Neighbor sprayed poison into the air--some unholy mix of dicamba and the one that gives me fake cardiac symptoms. All day Thursday and all day Friday we've had false promises of rain, not enough actual rain to wash the poison out of the air. Even Pastel's eyes are watery, and her kittens have been whining and complaining.
I'll be back to normal, I'm sure, as soon as we have some real rain.
Books
A last-minute call for advance readers came in the e-mail Wednesday night. If any of you readers watch MSNBC, you may know a TV personality called Ali Velshi. I don't know him, but his family story sounds interesting. His grandfather went to stay with Gandhi in South Africa and his family accepted activism as their new hereditary vocation. Whether TV news readers should be activists is another question! Anyway, the book is called Small Acts of Courage, by Ali Velshi, and it's scheduled to be in the stores by Monday. I'd appreciate opinions from any of you who can get a copy and read it.
Energy
Fellow Virginians, what do youall think of this form? I think it's well meant, but not great. It's generic. It's a version for us to use to say the same thing people in North Carolina are saying to their US representatives. We have more to say to ours. I recommend youall use this form, but rewrite it to make it great. We don't want to leave room for porky ideas like replacing coal-burning plants with nukes. We want Apco to be directed, specifically, to invest in the people they serve.
Glyphosate
UCLA study:
This year, Bayer's wanting to sell us corn that's been genetically modified to absorb, and thrive on, and dump into the atmosphere when it's burned, five toxic "herbicides"--glyphosate, glufosinate, dicamba, 2,4-D, and quizalofop. Tell the USDA where Bayer needs to stick that idea, please. Do it now. This web site will wait for you. The form letter is written in such a way that you can insert your own favorite fun facts, and links, as paragraph two.
Labor
Another interesting bit I wish this article had highlighted: In Jesus' parables, the individual workers negotiated their own wages and hours. Living wages, yes. Free markets, also. No fixed regulations to prevent people employing other people at all.
Pictures
Indian art. Different rules. All but one of the paintings portray people in symbolic rather than realistic ways.
Typing
When you want to type a foreign word correctly and you're not using Microsoft Word...
Zazzle
Now they offer duffel bags. My small one:
Not mine, but they'd look good as a set:
My large one:
Yes, of course you can transfer colors or pictures from one to the other. You can change the colors, the message, the pictures, any way you like.
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