Picky Eating
Apparently, in Britain, if a three year old turns up his nose at ‘foreign’ food they are a potential racist.
Wow. Just. Wow. My kids would be arrested the first day. If it’s not chicken nuggets, pizza, or PB&J they won’t touch it.
Th-Th-Tha-Th-Th-Th-That’s All Folks
In the ongoing saga of attempting not to stress out over things that are appearing in my son’s development we’ve found a new issue.
Beauty in Innocense
Becca’s last day of school was yesterday. She’s been quite excited about that day to come and go. She was quite crestfallen this morning when I went to work, she had assumed I would get the summer off as well.
Angi had told her that she and Becca would need to help Calvin get ready for school over the summer. She had explained about the occupational therapy, and how we might want to help him with his letters and what so he would be ready.
Only Political Junkies Need Apply.
One of my favorite election season trackers is back. Electoral-vote.com. Using polling data he keeps an active map going up and until the election to give you an idea where states stand based on national/state level polls and how this would affect the electoral map.
I watched this with interest the last presidential election and it was fairly accurate in it’s predictions. He updates it quite regularly with polling data.
It’s Just a Scratch
Here in the Raleigh/Durham region of North Carolina a particularly nasty trial has been on going. A woman who was fostering/adopting a large number of children from the social services system kinda went insane, or is just evil, your choice and basically beat & tortured her kids until one of them finally died which eventually got the attention of social services enough to arrest her.
The child that died she had begun a systemic increase in ‘binding’ him at night with his blankets to, as she claims, ‘keep him from wandering off at night’. The night he died, she had used three blankets to wrap him up like a sausage so he couldn’t move.
My mental segue on this was currently there is a doctor on the stand telling them that she actually tortured the child before he died. Sounds horrific when you consider he was a four year old boy.
Talking Bout My G-G-G-Generation
Apparently, it’s time to write off Generation X and start focusing on Generation Y, because we’re finished.
This story is one of many I’ve seen circulate the last few days about how Generation Y is taking over and Generation X is either screwed by the boomers or never cared enough to do anything anyway.
Apparently Generation X won’t want anything to do with Green technology, we already want people to ‘get off our lawn’ and all sorts of things if you believe that article.
Did Twitter Jump the Shark?
Twitter. It’s all the rage right now. I even (reluctantly) use it though extremely rarely. I used to have it send updates to my phone via text messaging but that gets expensive, and don’t really have time during the day now to watch it, along with the fact that I’m in a deep dark hole and my phone can’t get a signal.
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I’m Doing My Part
So ever since I’ve been aware of the ‘economic stimulus’ check that we’d be getting I’d been debating what to do with it. In principle, I disagree with the idea. Kinda like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound to the thigh. However in reality, it’s a chunk of money in my bank account, so what to do with it?
Welp.
This is disheartening.
Voter turnout in Wake County, which is where Raleigh, and several large suburbs are. Was a whopping 38.67%.
And that set records. (With bonus ‘dress shoes/dress socks up to knees in shorts’ pic)
Irony, Thy Name is Senator Brownback
When I made the list of reasons I didn’t like Kansas, Senator Brownback was one of the top of my list. Senator Roberts was right behind him. I mean we went from Nancy Kassabaum to that fool Roberts. Ugh.
Anyway. For the best fake outrage of the month (and it’s only the 2nd) I give the award to the most ironic thing I’ve seen in a while:
Sen. Sam Brownback is accusing China of ordering U.S.-owned hotels to install Internet filters to spy on international visitors during the summer Olympics.
Brownback made that charge at a news conference today where he and other lawmakers criticized China’s human rights record. The Kansas Republican also urged President Bush not to attend the Olympics’ opening ceremony.
It’s the same technology he voted for & supports the continuing use of in our own Libraries.
