Straight Talk

I am putting together a straight-dope account of recent months. In trying to be utterly honest, I was repeatedly disturbed by watching Meet the Press. As ever.

Both parties do it. They take words from the Congressional Budget Office that clearly refer to a worst-case scenario, and say, "See? Lies!" They pretend that there is no money, when there is money now wasted in the military budget, money now spent on employer-assisted insurance payments, money now lost to corporate loopholes...shut the hell up.

An article in this morning's Boston Globe discussed the Gloucester Crossing project. Loads of moaning about the wrong types of job, and not a word about starting a business or encouraging a business to relocate that would provide the right type of job. People bitch and carry on without ever proposing another way...shut the hell up.

Photos

I'm shrinking a huge number of pictures for posting to this site. I've been working on it in dribs and drabs for weeks. So, sorry that there's been no eye candy in a little while. That is, end of season garden shots, and the sea glass collection... not certain that I can supply eye candy of any other variety!

Remembrance

Courtesy of the Daily Dish:
http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/views-of-a-day/

Speechify

I am stupified that segments of the American public object to the notion that the President is going to give a speech to schoolchildren.

"Liberal lies"? "Socialism"? This has gone too bloody far. The far right is cornered, terrified, and lashing out crazily. Obama is not the liberal that I am, so worry more about the children that I encounter than about those whom he will address.

The President's speech is an honor. The President deserves our respect, and so do the majority of our citizens, who voted him in. I'm a pacifist, yet I'm leaning toward uprising in this climate of labeling, threatening, and hate.

Produce

Detroit citizens are obtaining fresh produce via ice cream-style trucks driving up and down the streets. The city has one of the highest rates of obesity in the nation. Countless residents are on public assistance and rely on public transportation. These trucks are so welcome.

In the normal day to day, crappy foods are cheap and available. Especially in a city with countless convenience stores and few groceries (26 liquor stores to each market with fresh produce, according to NBC). Thank God for the people who had this inspired idea.

Supreme Runway

OK, I'm just disgusted. Again. Watching Brian Williams tonight, I perked up for a story he (B) said was inspired by a new statistic, that women outnumber men in the work force. The subject of the story was Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Really and truly, it was about how she and Sandra Day O'Connor elected to accessorize their robes. Oh. My. God.

27 Drosses

I was watching 27 Dresses, because it was on. And a guy in the film said to another guy, "Every girl in the world goes right to that page," referring to the weddings page in the newspaper.

Seriously? Not since I was nine. IF I even did it THEN—-nine is when I was well and truly over my princess thang.

At first I thought, maybe the script was written in the 1940s. But I don't think women have radically changed even in that time frame. I mean, does every man in the world go right to the Sports section?