Personally, this horrifies me on so many levels: Arkansas Family Expecting 16th Child How can someone justify this large a family as a moral imperative? Our country consumes the bulk of the world’s resources in fossil fuels and yet are behind other nations in the percentage of our gross national product that we donate to poor countries. We don’t donate 0.7% like some of our peers. “Extreme poverty can be reduced, and indeed eliminated, in our generation,” Sachs told journalists last week in a national conference call. “What it will take is increased investment.” How much? To the American who…
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* beep’s Remote Patrol notes that former Amazing Race winner Reichen Leimkuhl and other reality “stars” will be in a new show where they all live together while filming a horror film. Oh, the horror indeed. That’ll get a big thumbs-down on the TiVo.
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We’re making an attempt here at Chez Guique to be more active and eat better. We went for the bike ride the other night – 11 miles, not too shabby – and today I felt like a salad rather than a gutbomb at the office cafeteria. I stood behind a rather heavy woman who very slowly picked individual leaves of lettuce out of the bin in the salad bar. Then she very slowwwly and deliberately put 4 ladles of French dressing on her salad. I waited until she moved away, then added a couple of items and crunchy things to…
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My husband David, with the help of Mac gurus Steve and Fred, got me a reconditioned iPod. This will make my friend Kevin do the happy bum-wiggle footy dance discreetly at his desk. It’s a 4-gig silver iPod. We have to get a high-speed USB2 card for my computer, but David says that’s no big deal. So very soon I’ll be learning how to navigate iTunes and figuring out all kinds of other junk. And also, as a wacko NPR / AAR loyalist, I have to download the latest OK Go EP, because Adam Felbers says so. And as Adam…