August 2009
5 posts
“Whole Foods appears to be such a reasonable, benign organization. But I can’t...”
– Newton, MA woman regarding Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s recent WSJ op-ed opposing government-run health care.
I feel exactly the same way. This has truly cast doubts for me over whether any of the spinach pastas at Whole Foods really contain any spinach at all. Life can be so cruel.
"Massachusetts judges take a run at social mores." →
Judges are not “activist” just because their constitutional decisions do not align with your personal views. Try telling an interracial couple that Loving v. Virginia (1969) should be overruled because it changed social mores. Or tell a black child in a wealthy primarily-white school that Brown v. Board (1954) was just too radical and flimsy to stand.
What Happens When You Shower In Germany Without...
I don’t have any story quite as funny as this from my travels. But this brings back to my memory the time I was standing in a German grocery store trying to decide between two bars of Milka chocolate. The first one was “haselnuss” and the second was “trauben-nuss.” Both had a picture of a hazelnut on them, so I was clearly perplexed as to what the difference was (it...
Absolutely Disgusting. →
When older people ask “what has society come to?,” I often shrug it off. But this article has me asking the same question. An upstanding man who worked hard to put his children through college was killed in a Massachusetts city for a few dollars worth of Chinese food. Somebody (or some group of people) placed a bogus food order from an untraceable number and then attacked him when he...