Geese overhead, first acorns on the ground, goldenrod everywhere, farmstands beautifully decorated with pumpkins, cornstalks and mums – we made it through summer, to the season we love the best.
“Her” Life, Her Card
Kate Winslet’s AMEX commercial is one of the cleverest celebrity endorsements ever, a recounting of melodramatic episodes from her various films. Her fans figured out which films she’s referring to:
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
It was inevitable, I guess: you and me, the taxpayers, are being sued by one of the Louisiana evacuees who we have housed, fed and clothed this past month at Camp Edwards.
Telling It LIke It Is
Good for Joe Scarborough of MSNBC for ripping off the sanctimonious shrouds of FEMA and the Red Cross.
Mr. Scarborough’s September 13 column recounts two incidents in which civilians like himself were turned away by so-called relief agencies when they tried to help some of the Katrina evacuees.
Time to Fire the Federal Reserve?
Characterizing the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the economy as “short-lived”, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (the Fed) voted yesterday to raise the federal funds rate once again, to 3.75 percent.
Top Ten
Weather person Mich Michaels sometimes talks about the “Top Ten”, the ten days of the year with the best weather conditions.
Yesterday had to have been one of them, and serendipity lead me to the perfect way to enjoy it.
Not a Good Thing
I tried to watch the first episode of Martha Stewart’s Apprentice last night, but in short order, switched to a superb show on PBS about the Tango, with top-notch performances by dancers and musicians from Buenos Aires but, unfortunately, some horrible camera work (there ought to be a law that when you film a dance performance, you must at all times SHOW THE DANCERS’ FEET, for heavens sake, and not their faces.)
Too Scared to Report It?
As we’ve seen in the past, the Boston Herald seems to be the only media outlet in town that isn’t afraid to take on people in positions of authority.
Yesterday, there was a 25-mile traffic jam on the Massachusetts Turnpike. It happened because of a union-inspired protest by firefighters that evidently had been implicitly supported by both the city and state police.
Having blocked traffic in Newton Corner, the firefighters created a bottleneck at one of the exits off the Eastbound (Boston-bound) side of the Pike. According to the Herald, “medical employees, ambulances and other emergency workers were being blocked from urgent duties,” and some drivers were unable to get to doctors appointments.
This Will Happen Again
Until people stop treating adoption like teddy bears and lace, more and more kids will end up like a 11 year old girl from Westfield: critically injured by the very people who are supposed to protect them, their so-called “parents”.
Values Clarification
My friends at HAC have invited me to an orientation meeting tonight for prospective volunteers to help out at “Otis Village”, the barracks which now house a little fewer than 200 evacuees from Hurricane Katrina.