The topic of breed specific legislation (BSL) seems to come up a few times per year. Pit bulls are generally the target, and they're already banned in a few places. Up for debate, I guess. In my experience they're not the dogs with the shortest fuses. They just have strong jaws. There might be a few different ways of dealing with that.
Anyway, this is a clip of deer standing around, then running. I found it soothing.
This may seem like a weird thing for me to blog about―or not, it's kind of hard to tell from the inside. But I have to express a certain admiration for the Benjamin Moore. They sell paint. A lot of different colors of paint. The site allows you the chance to see what each color looks like on its own, and then in the context of a room. It's quite illustrative.
Granted, the décor of each room is more spare than anyone who isn't a serial-killing stockbroker is likely to keep in their home. But we're talking about Platonic ideals here.
The area behind the skating rink was a developer's crown jewel. It's at the entrance to Waterplace Park, which can still be downright pretty. This little nook has the locations for 3-4 restaurants, which have been through various names/owners, but used to be pretty busy. The number being used now? A nice round zero.
But going through it today I found a nip bottle with a burn hole in it from being used as a freebasing pipe, so at least someone is making use of the area.
What do you do or say when the masks come off, when the monster reveals itself? Don't they usually do this because they figure you can't escape? Isn't the premise that you're about to get eaten either way?
That seems to be the thinking of Adam Posen. Posen represents the Peterson Institute which, judging from its website, is one of those think tanks where thinking goes to die. Speaking at a recent CATO Institute gathering, Posen said that the concern a few souls have with keeping manufacturing on American soil is just a “fetish for keeping white males with low education in the powerful positions they are in.”
Now obviously white males aren't the only people engaged in American manufacturing, and at this point may not even make up the majority, but never mind that. Never mind also that the great power that comes with these "powerful positions" boils down to feeding your family and maybe being able to put away something for the future.
No, Posen knew that his words would spread around the globe, accompanied by however much disbelief. And to those listening he wanted to make clear―on behalf of capitalism's brain trust―that he could make his case using all the fashionable woke lingo. It seems rather a missed opportunity that he didn't say anything about incels, but I suppose he has to leave something for the encore.
To say the least, I was not fond of the COVID lockdowns, and am hoping that the past tense is appropriate here. But there was sort of an upside in that they cleared out the buses, meaning buses were also more likely to be on time. Now buses are back to being crowded, and also in some cases being twenty minutes behind schedule.
The good news, thanks to the federal courts, is that you don't have to wear masks on them anymore. Put that together with all the other stuff and it would be a capital ordeal.
I have to admit not being a big fan of iced coffee. Iced caffeinated beverages in general, really. One of two things tend to happen. Either I drink the stuff with flavor and then have half a cup full of ice to get rid of. Or maybe I draw the drinking out long enough for the ice to melt, but then the beverage is watery. Drinking water is very good and important, but you don't have to spring for an ice latte to do it.
Only reason I bring this up is that the weather is getting cooler, and I still see a lot of people toting around iced coffee. And I'm sure I'll still see a lot in January. Are they trying to fool their bodies into thinking it's still summer? Fine if they want to do that, but I'll pass.
The world's second-largest fork resides in Springfield, Missouri. No idea what you'd eat with it. But I have to like it. There's no profound message to it. They just liked the idea of having a huge fork in the middle of town. They didn't give up on it when the restaurant it was part of went under. And they weren't discouraged when a city in Oregon built an even taller fork. Which I'm sure is quite a story in its own right.
