Tag Archives: ignorance is bliss
Ethics
When I was working at Pangea, occasionally people would call or email with their ethical quandaries, as if by purveying vegan goods we were somehow paragons of vegan living. But, they looked to us for answers, so we had answers ready. Questions like “what should I do about underwear, because the rubber in the elastic [...]
Two for the Road
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I keep seeing a bumper sticker that says, “If you think you’re perfect, try walking on water.” It annoys me, not because of the sentiment so much, but because it doesn’t make any sense. What does walking on water have to do with perfection? I have to think that when we’re running down the list [...]
Status Woe
Facebook status is an occasionally interesting, mostly banal, sometimes humorous window into the lives of people I know but do not see often enough to know much about their day to day lives. Mostly, it’s fun. I know that one friend is rapidly losing weight, I get little updates about my fellow teacher training graduates [...]
No News is Good News
Last year I joked that I was going to have a complete news blackout in 2008 because election news makes me so mad. I was pissed off for most of 2004, and didn’t really want to experience that again. After a very brief stint working in politics, and having enough chums who have worked on [...]
Going Home to God
It’s official. We’re really home. Last week we had our first visit from Jehovah’s witnesses.
It was a nice, spicy morning. The winds were just right so that the whole neighborhood was beset with the scent of nutmeg from the McCormick plant. As I drove home from the gym I was thinking about what a treat [...]
Miscellaneous Tuesday