Quick Takes on Today's Headlines
Bush Seeks More Food Aid for Poor Countries
This is another example of the "bandaiding" that has marked his policies throughout. I mean the practice of resorting to short term means that to the equally short-sighted seem to be just the ticket to solve the problem, while leaving intact the long-term evils that are the cause of the troubles. So, in this case he's still pushing the latest Farm Bill, that will continue to give farmers and absentee landowners even larger amounts for not planting anything or to grow crops to go into gas tanks instead of into people's tummies.
Bill Prohibits Bias Based on Genes
Until recently it was virtually against the law to have African genes, at least those of the recent sort. Today's news, then, means there has been real progress, as shown by the preponderance of votes against this gene discrimination in other respects. I wonder who voted against this bill, and why?
Measles in U.S. at Highest Level Since 2001
What about 1941? When I was in grade school, before the days of heavy inoculations, it was routine to catch all the diseases that were going around: chickenpox, mumps, measles, whooping cough -- the whole kit and kaboodle, with a few extras thrown in, such as pneumonia, pink eye, and numerous colds in my case and scarlet fever and numerous colds in my sister's. Such afflictions were a normal, everyday part of the process of getting bigger. Even today it is an occupational hazard of the teachers, one of whom is a neighbor who has to spend too much time at home recovering from the kids slobbering germs on her all the time.
Olympic Torch Relay Ends in Hong Kong
Finally! Though doesn't it still have to end up in Beijing? Maybe anywhere in China is good enough. Mia Farrow brandished a torch in Hong Kong while suggesting to China that it should try pushing Sudan to stop the bloodshed in Darfur. The article said she didn't try to disrupt the Olympic proceedings. I never thought she would.
China should leave Tibet strictly alone. Countries overloaded with people have nothing but misery to offer to other countries that have been more circumspect.
Mariah Carey Remarries a Decade after Divorce
Mariah Carey is one of the sexiest-looking women in show business, though in her two movies I have seen she is sadly tough and foul-mouthed. I wonder what it's like to be married to her? Well, somebody's going to find that out anew. In spite of her appearance I am tempted to refrain from calling him lucky.
Miley Cyrus Grounded by Disney?
Obviously Google News has a spot reserved expressly for preadults so as not to leave them out from the earthshaking news that they will see as most meaningful to them. But it bodes tragically ill for the future if the doings of this latest celestial object, Ms Cyrus, supplanting Ms Lohan, and before her, and for years, Ms Spears, are all that's available to them.
Stevens backs Big Brown post choice
Translated, this means that the trainer of one of the horses in the upcoming Kentucky Derby (to which, like all sports events, I ordinarily pay little attention), Big Brown, who I assume is one of the favorites, has chosen the last post on the outside, No. 20, instead of 1, 2, 18, or 19. The article sounds like the trainer had a choice, though I'm wondering what the great significance of 18 and 19 is.
The thinking, for one thing, is that the horse will be less likely then to have dirt "kicked into his face." It also must mean that Big Brown is expected to come thundering maybe from as far as last, gradually across the field and eventually to end up right alongside the rail or somewhere near as he gallops to first place in the stretch.
I would consider that calculation to be extremely cool, even if it doesn't work.
This is another example of the "bandaiding" that has marked his policies throughout. I mean the practice of resorting to short term means that to the equally short-sighted seem to be just the ticket to solve the problem, while leaving intact the long-term evils that are the cause of the troubles. So, in this case he's still pushing the latest Farm Bill, that will continue to give farmers and absentee landowners even larger amounts for not planting anything or to grow crops to go into gas tanks instead of into people's tummies.
Bill Prohibits Bias Based on Genes
Until recently it was virtually against the law to have African genes, at least those of the recent sort. Today's news, then, means there has been real progress, as shown by the preponderance of votes against this gene discrimination in other respects. I wonder who voted against this bill, and why?
Measles in U.S. at Highest Level Since 2001
What about 1941? When I was in grade school, before the days of heavy inoculations, it was routine to catch all the diseases that were going around: chickenpox, mumps, measles, whooping cough -- the whole kit and kaboodle, with a few extras thrown in, such as pneumonia, pink eye, and numerous colds in my case and scarlet fever and numerous colds in my sister's. Such afflictions were a normal, everyday part of the process of getting bigger. Even today it is an occupational hazard of the teachers, one of whom is a neighbor who has to spend too much time at home recovering from the kids slobbering germs on her all the time.
Olympic Torch Relay Ends in Hong Kong
Finally! Though doesn't it still have to end up in Beijing? Maybe anywhere in China is good enough. Mia Farrow brandished a torch in Hong Kong while suggesting to China that it should try pushing Sudan to stop the bloodshed in Darfur. The article said she didn't try to disrupt the Olympic proceedings. I never thought she would.
China should leave Tibet strictly alone. Countries overloaded with people have nothing but misery to offer to other countries that have been more circumspect.
Mariah Carey Remarries a Decade after Divorce
Mariah Carey is one of the sexiest-looking women in show business, though in her two movies I have seen she is sadly tough and foul-mouthed. I wonder what it's like to be married to her? Well, somebody's going to find that out anew. In spite of her appearance I am tempted to refrain from calling him lucky.
Miley Cyrus Grounded by Disney?
Obviously Google News has a spot reserved expressly for preadults so as not to leave them out from the earthshaking news that they will see as most meaningful to them. But it bodes tragically ill for the future if the doings of this latest celestial object, Ms Cyrus, supplanting Ms Lohan, and before her, and for years, Ms Spears, are all that's available to them.
Stevens backs Big Brown post choice
Translated, this means that the trainer of one of the horses in the upcoming Kentucky Derby (to which, like all sports events, I ordinarily pay little attention), Big Brown, who I assume is one of the favorites, has chosen the last post on the outside, No. 20, instead of 1, 2, 18, or 19. The article sounds like the trainer had a choice, though I'm wondering what the great significance of 18 and 19 is.
The thinking, for one thing, is that the horse will be less likely then to have dirt "kicked into his face." It also must mean that Big Brown is expected to come thundering maybe from as far as last, gradually across the field and eventually to end up right alongside the rail or somewhere near as he gallops to first place in the stretch.
I would consider that calculation to be extremely cool, even if it doesn't work.
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