Archive for September 27, 2009
How Old Do I Have to be Before I’m Not a “Girl”?
Channel surfing just now; caught a few seconds of HSN and an introduction to a collection of purses by “Iman.” The host said that “every girl” wants one.
The media elevates boys to men when they’re roughly 17. When do “girls” become women? Never.
No Mention of George W. Bush in CBS’s Interview with General Stanley McChrystal
CBS correspondent David Martin interviewed Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan tonight on 60 Minutes. The topic of discussion was the absolute mess that Afghanistan and our war there is in. (You may remember that George W. Bush started the war and “managed” it for almost eight years.)
Again, the topic was the mess the place is in — but Bush’s name was never mentioned.
Still buying that bullshit about the “liberal media?”
This Little Piggy Went to…
Three years ago, when Christien Meindertsma, a 29-year-old design school graduate from Rotterdam, The Netherlands with an interest in raw materials decided to “trace what happened to the body parts of a specific commercially raised pig, she discovered a lot more than packaged meat. That single animal, Meindertsma found, contributed to a mind-boggling number of products — 185 items in all, from chewing gum to bone china.” In the end, Meindertsma wrote a book documenting her findings titled, Pig 05049:
Not surprisingly, much of the pig was bound for the table in the familiar forms of meat. In addition, calcium from the bones was used to fortify yogurt. The pig’s nose, after being deep-fried, became a dog snack.
What is surprising is the staggering array of non-food products that incorporate parts of the pig. Who knew it took pig fat to make automobile paint? Or that hemoglobin from pig blood is used in cigarette filters? Bone ash, Meindertsma found, went into train brakes, bone meal into the coating for aluminum molds, and gelatin from the pig’s skin and bones was deployed by an American weapons manufacturer to help distribute powder to bullets.
Meindertsma’s goal in undertaking this project was to “encourage consumers, in a world in which so much is packaged, to think about where our goods come from, with the ultimate goal that ‘we care for and use our resources wisely’.”
I love that there are people out there who spend time on quirky stuff like this and that we have the Internet so we can know about them and what they do. Life is good!
Beware of That Well Done Steak
Ten dirty little restaurant secrets — one being that restaurants have been known to save old steaks, that really should be thrown out, for people who want them cooked well done. Cooking to well done masks the stench. Ugh.
Wildlife
Beautiful photographs: The winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards. (See upper right to click through.)
Mark Udall (D-CO) Finally Takes a Stand — For Guns
One of my senators is Democrat Mark Udall. Since having moved up to the Senate last November, he has been a real disappointment. For example, we don’t know where he stands on the public option or on the Employee Free Choice Act. As a matter of fact, I called his office a few months ago and asked about his position on the public option. The person who answered the phone said Udall was still learning the ropes in the Senate so he hadn’t made up his mind about it. How those two things are connected I don’t know but apparently the guy thought I was dumb enough to think they were.
But lo and behold, all of a sudden Mark Udall’s name is everywhere. The guy is taking a stand; asserting himself. Yep, he wants more “aid for public shooting ranges.“ This from a guy who the media was referring to last summer as “Boulder liberal Mark Udall.”
Pathetic stuff coming from a “liberal.”
