It is a most gorgeous day, and I am sitting inside! Blasphemy!
Back from work at the bookshop. I got a dogsitting job as well! Time to make some food now.
Relaxing after a film and a lot of cleaning. My garlic stir fry turned out really well too!
“To see things in the seed, that is genius.” — Lao Tzu
Light cigarettes provoking purchase do to percieved health improvements is not worthy enough for class-action status apparently:
‘Last Thursday, the Second Circuit issued McLaughlin v. American Tobacco Company, No. 06-4666 (2d Cir. Apr. 3, 2008), reversing Judge Jack Weinstein’s certification of a class including virtually all Americans who had purchased cigarettes labeled as “light” or “lights.”’
“Government, what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instance losing its integrity; it has not the vitality and force of a single living man. Law never made man a
whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice.”
—
Henry David Thoreau
from Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays
A Softer World. I’d like that.
Necessary and under-emphasized, indeed.
“These fine folks don’t get (or get but have strategically decided to suspend knowledge) that surfer Obama has been appointed by the ruling class to ride and contain the wave of popular anger and euphoria over Cheney-Bush and their imminent passing. He is a perfectly qualified agent of repressive de-sublimation: a “JFK in sepia” (Michael Hureaux) to bamboozle the masses and reinvigorate and the empire at home and abroad.” — Paul Street commenting on this article
Initial Reaction: Price Changes Leads to Weight Change
Possible Conclusions:
