Music Make Magic Memories

Music makes magic memories. A song on the radio, a first kiss, a high school marching band, a wedding song... Hearts shrink and swell at 99BPM with horns and strings. Remember.

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It's been a long time!

What has happened in the two years since my last post? So many things.... Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo360, my own domain, TV, a new president, a new era. And yet, still there are things upon which we muse, ponder, considering, and stew.

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Locavore, Get Your Gun - New York Times

Locavore, Get Your Gun - New York Times: "EVERY year, 15 million licensed hunters head into America’s forests and fields in search of wild game. In New York State alone, roughly half a million hunters harvest around 190,000 deer in the fall deer hunting season — that’s close to eight million pounds of venison. In the traditional vernacular, we’d call that “game meat.” But, in keeping with the times, it might be better to relabel it as free-range, grass-fed, organic, locally produced, locally harvested, sustainable, native, low-stress, low-impact, humanely slaughtered meat."

Well said! Now if I only knew how to hunt.

A fundamental failure of leadership

TheStar.com | News | This guy was the green prime minister? : "What we are witnessing is a fundamental failure of leadership. We now have had a government that has dismantled what little the previous government put in place to reduce emissions, and has all but abandoned any attempt to make serious inroads on our rising emissions."

Thank you David Suzuki. I couldn't have said it any better myself.

Islam’s Silent Moderates - New York Times

Islam’s Silent Moderates - New York Times: "If moderate Muslims believe there should be no compassion shown to the girl from Qatif, then what exactly makes them so moderate?"

Now and Forever - New York Times

Now and Forever - New York Times: "Priorities don’t get much more twisted. A country that can’t find the money to provide health coverage for its children, or to rebuild the city of New Orleans, or to create a first-class public school system, is flushing whole generations worth of cash into the bottomless pit of a failed and endless war."

You go Bob! This man speaks truth to power, and I like it!

Failing Infrastructure by the Numbers

Failing Infrastructure by the Numbers: "Maintenance on highways, bridges, dams, and water treatment systems is a convenient place to cut corners when politicians need to appear tough on spending, since the results of routine upkeep are not flashy. But perpetual underfunding and deferred maintenance accelerates structural decay and contributes to disasters, as in the cases of the New Orleans levees or Minneapolis bridge. It’s time to make planes, trains, and automobiles safe again and restore the jewels of American ingenuity and engineering."

Take a look at this. The numbers are pretty upsetting. Please call your Member of Congress and tell them you want our infrastructure to be taken care of properly and stopp playing stupid plitical games when our country's roads and bridges are crumbling under our feet.

One week before the bridge collapsed in Minnesota, a bridge collapsed here in California. It was surreal hearing about the collapse in Minnesota just a few days after one collapsed here for the same reason: Neglect.

If you're not mad, you're not paying attention!