MEDIA DESPERATELY SEARCHING FOR NEW WAYS TO PHOTOGRAPH SPINACH
I am a frequent visitor to CNN.com and have been amazed the past couple of weeks at the variety of bagged-spinach-related photos available. Honestly, there seems to be no "news" about the e. coli outbreak, but I just tune in to see the new images.
96% OF SPACE SHUTTLE MISSIONS NOW SPENT DETECTING, REPAIRING DAMAGE FROM SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH
Look, I loved the space shuttle when I was growing up. I saw it piggybacking on a plane once in Florida. I still remember that I was watching "Scrabble" on TV when I heard that the Challenger blew up. Space exploration is one of the few government activities that I don't mind paying taxes for.
But isn't it time to put this thing to bed and move on? Even given tons of time and money, NASA can't get the foam thing right. And there's so much hypersensitivity to any risk -- heads up, there is plenty to go around in space travel -- that the missions just seem kind of pointless. The news that comes out of the missions is that foam fell off but (hopefully) nothing blew up.
And all of this to put some solar cells on an "international" space station that's already obsolete.
BEER BREWED WITHIN CITY LIMITS OF KANSAS CITY NOT "DOMESTIC" ACCORDING TO KANSAS CITY BAR
When we were waiting in the Holiday Inn prior to closing on our house, there was a happy hour featuring "free domestic beers." Kansas City's own Boulevard Wheat is one of my all-time favorite beers, so that is what I ordered. The bartendress informed me that the happy hour only applied to domestic beers and charged me full price. I guess maybe it's imported...from Kansas to Missouri?
SELLERS OF HOUSE FEEL NO NEED TO SHOW UP AT FINAL WALKTHROUGH TO EXPLAIN WHERE FUCKING SINK WENT
When buying a house, the final walkthrough is a nice time to make sure that the repairs you requested have been done and to learn how stuff in the house actually works. Therefore, it was nice of our sellers to blow the walkthrough off and still have time to leave a gaping hole where a bathroom sink used to be. They and their realtor were not available by phone afterwards or anytime prior to, during or since closing. Oh, except that they were in our house after closing to take a precious paper-towel dispenser.
The sink is now back, kind of. But it's not installed properly and their realtor blew off a meeting to discuss the problems we are having with the house. Nice.
