Saturday, August 1st, 2009
I really want to go see Food Inc at The Flicks but I am so broke right now.
Here’s a great review of Food Inc …
Food Inc. makes two points very well that are worth repeating and then I’ll shut up. One: wherever and whenever, try to know or find out the source of your food. And two: every time you buy food, it’s a vote for more of that food; if it’s excellent, you’re asking for more; if it’s shitty food, you’re asking for more.
I can’t embed, but please take 2 minutes to watch the YouTube movie trailer.
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Shame on me, I didn’t get my phone calls in this week to my representatives and others in congress on the debacle that is the whinging about how we just can’t afford to do anything about the teetering colossus that is Health Care System In America Today.
But I just opened my monthly mailing from Senator Mike Crapo and about spewed my tea reading his “survey” this month. This is what I wrote (via his email form) in response:
Sir:
I just wanted to ask what sort of numbskull in your office devised this month’s “survey”? I’m sure the results are terribly (un)informative since the answer options are skewed to a limited field — bad job!
Just for the record, I am *not* unsure. What I want and what I *know* that this country needs is single payer. Of course that won’t happen because it’s too efficient and logical and there’s not enough money in it for all the greedy hands.
As a second choice I want a public option.
Please look for a letter from me in the near future. Thank you in advance for your response.
The letters to the Idaho delegation (for what good they’ll do) and Pelosi and Reid and as yet undetermined others are going out next week.
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Like a long hot bath are Roger Ebert’s posts. In this one he delves into the contemporary modes of communication including Twitter. As with all his writings, nothing is superficial and all provokes more thought.
And in another allied arena, here’s UC Irvine developing a treatment for tinnitus (from which I suffer chronically). I don’t look for aid in the near future, but I’m glad work’s being done.
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
I’ve been dying my hair for a while. For a time I would go to a salon to have it done but that costs a lotta lotta money so I do it myself. I used to use the usual suspects off the shelf of your local grocery or department store. No big deal. Got the job done.
But I’d get headaches for a bit after I’d done it. Made me wonder. So about four months ago I was at the Co-op (sort of a local one-up Whole Foods, I guess; been around since the ’70s when it really was a co-operative and you had to put your time in weekly with the bins of bulk grain, etc.). And I asked what they’d recommend (beside the henna track).
I ended up with a couple of shades of Naturcolor. Two boxes (5N, 5R), two bottles, I used one set to mix up for one session and another for the next session. It’s nice. No stink. No scalp burning. No headache. And the color isn’t flat; it seems to pick out individual strands to color different shades. My hair seems fuller and not so traumatized.
I don’t even need to use the whole amount, so I think I’ll get a dye brush and pot and use just half a portion each time. That’ll mean the price is less than or comparable to the grocery store prices.
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