Purely Random

Over the weekend, I went to my home town in Ohio for my mom’s Birthday. As a gift, I put together an exciting vegetarian barbecue and brought home all the fixin’s from the Whole Foods in Pittsburgh (my mom is a vegetarian—that’s why I sometimes lean that way). As always, the barbecue was tasty and exciting. But that’s not what this post is about. This post, is about the leftovers. My mom almost always sends all her leftovers home with me because I have housemates that might potentially eat it, and it would just sit in the fridge at her place. The result: I have a lot of leftovers in my fridge. It also seems as if it’s up to me to eat it; my housemates all seem to ask, “isn’t there any meat in it?” and go on to heat up a frozen dinner. (more…)

Here’s a New York Times article that puts President Bush’s May 15 immigration speech in an interesting light. The article points out that Bush, being from Texas, actually has a long history of firmly supporting immigrants from Mexico. Sure, he’s also being advised that there’s a potential benefit of Hispanic support of the Republican Party, but the article tries to show that he really does support the immigrants—and I believe it. I’m not a big supporter of Bush, and I think that’s why I found the article to be so interesting. I don’t know; it’s definitely worth a read. Of course, I would also be interested in finding out how and why people are ripping him apart for the same speech. Any pointers?

I was thrilled to see a current event aligning with the topic of socially conscious big business: Wal-Mart has decided to jump into the organic food market. There are some other reports and discussions taking place around the Internet, but I’m a big fan of NPR (if you’re willing/able to deal with the non-text story content). The topic of socially-aware big business is something that I have discussed with Sally in the past, and we we agree that it is a necessary step for a world in which the superpowers are all corporations rather than nation-states.

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Exciting news: our days of 1¢ and 2¢ stamps are soon to be over! This is something I have suggested for a long time, and it seems like someone out there in our government is actually trying to eliminate hassles. The deal is, starting next year, you will be able to buy a stamp that is good for one first class letter: not 37¢ or 39¢. If the price of stamps goes up, you can still just use a single “forever stamp. Brilliant!

This Sunday, Sally and I went to the Smallman Street Deli for our “weekly” breakfast outing. It’s actually been several weeks since we’ve gotten out (at least on Sunday morning), but you get the point. We ended up going to the Smallman Street Deli. There was some initial concern that it was closed on Sunday (as reported elsewhere on the internet), but it turns out they’re open from 8:00am to 9:00pm on Sundays. They serve breakfast until 2:00pm (which is good news: sometimes Sally takes—I mean, we take—a little while to get started).
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