Stuff I'm wondering about today
Arnie's last round
So they're making a big deal out of Arnold Palmer's 50th time in the Masters golf tournament at the gender-segregated Augusta National Golf Club. He's retiring. So if golf is work for you, what do you do when you retire: play more golf? Or go sit in an office all day, just for fun?
Weeds in Paradise Square
With all the U.S. has put into its invasion of Iraq, would it have been too much to pay some kid $20 to mow the lawn? On Thursday, the BBC's Lyse Doucet reported live from Paradise Square in Baghdad, and the weeds that have grown up there since the Saddam statue was pulled down on TV a year ago -- those weeds were nearly as tall as she is. Why give the locals yet another reason to hate us? Any neighbor who moves in next door and lets the lawn go straight to heck is going to have problems. Doucet reported from near Paradise Square again Friday -- the square itself was closed off, with a U.S. military vehicle circling slowly, its loudspeaker threatening that anyone with a gun would be shot dead. That sound competed with calls from a nearby mosque for blood and humanitarian aid for people trapped by the fighting in Fallujah. Folks, a neighbor who drives around the block over and over blasting his stereo and making threats is also not going to make a lot of friends. Would it have been too much to broadcast a different message, even if it had to be alternated with the threats? Something like this, maybe:
"Greetings, friends. U.S. Military here. We hope you like your country better today than you did a year ago. We don't, ourselves, but that's beside the point. In fact, many of us would like to go home because we only signed up for a weekend a month and two weeks in the summer in the first place. Anyway, enjoy the anniversary, and remember, anyone who appears to have a weapon will be shot dead. You may never travel to our country, but at least you'll get an idea what it's like to be a black man who happens to be packing a wallet on an American street at night. Or, closer to home, what it's like to be one of us well-meaning citizens who signed up to serve our country and ended up patrolling yours. Have a nice day."
Your tax dollars at work
Not only is our government paying people to consume pornography, it's we're paying for the counseling they get for the effect that kind of work has on them.
The Passion of the Easter Bunny
If you want to whip the Easter Bunny, you've got to break some eggs, I guess.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:14 PM
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