STEVEN, DASHMANN, SCOT, TRASE, and who knows how many others - are caught up in Fantasy Football and picks and stuff. IRISH MIKE - is telling a fascinating story of helping a friend run off some low-hanging pants punks who were throwing stones at cars in a parking lot. This is an even better story when you know that IRISH MIKE was suffering from a sprained knee, a sports injury.
SPARTY - also has a sprained knee. Also a sports injury. These are things that don't happen to people who only go walking.
What Some People are Talking About
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DIG S - Returns to the subject of this article from Reuters:
In Rich America, Third World inequality(Read here;CLICK
EXCERPT:
"There has been a massive shift of income from the bottom and middle to the top," says Holly Sklar, director of Business for Shared Prosperity, a network of business owners supporting higher minimum wages. "The richest 1 percent of Americans have increased their share of the nation's income to a higher level than any year since 1928, the eve of the Great Depression."
Says DIG - In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.-Confucius
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GIGI - recommends this bit of poetry, especially for all the members of coffee klatches:
EXCERPT:
In Praise of Joe
by Marge Piercy
I love you hot
I love you iced and in a pinch
I will even consume you tepid.
Dark brown as wet bark of an apple tree,
dark as the waters flowing out of a spooky swamp
rich with tannin and smelling of thick life—
Read the whole poem here: CLICK
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SPARTY - recommends "The Wrecking Crew" by Thomas Franks in Harper's Magazine, August 2008.
Frank writes, “Fantastic misgovernment of the kind we have seen is not an accident, nor is it the work of a few bad individuals. It is the consequence of triumph by a particular philosophy of government, by a movement that understands the liberal state as a perversion and considers the market the ideal nexus of human society. This movement is friendly to industry not just by force of campaign contributions but by conviction.”
2 comments:
The origin of my knee injury is not related to sports, unless swimming in Lake Michigan is a sport. The other day on the golf course I tweaked whatever damage had been done to my knee when I was in Lake Michigan trying to ride the waves with Walter Verberg. That injury could even happen to people who limit their exercise activity to walking.
Like I said, "a sports injury..."
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