What We Kept From the Last Three Months With No Posts

Good grief!  Will someone please grasp this year, as it is behaving like a two-year-old on a caffeine and sugar fueled tantrum, hold the blasted thing down, and staple it to the floor?  We much prefer our years to be gentler and quieter and we won't stand for this any more.  How can anyone hear us complain over all this ruckus?

So, some short posts so that we may clear our mental palates and physical notebooks:

Why didn't Wile E. Coyote just go buy a hot dog?

Many newspapers reported in July that the wealth gap was widening due to the recession.  Excuse me, Fourth Estate?  If ever there was an example of knews, this is it.

Justice without her blindfold is greed.

The IBM Selectric typewriter turned 50 in late July.  Who cares, you ask?  Why, we do, of course.  We miss the one we used to use.  There was something reassuringly mechanical about striking the keys, not like the anemic tap of a computer keyboard.  Although you can buy a keyboard with that sound to it, it's not the same, and we miss it.  Its example reminds us that it was a machine, designed to do a thing, and that was all it meant.  It was not a status symbol or a means of ignoring our fellow human beings or a success marker.  It was a tool that meant less than the work done with it and rightly so.

(And, while we're at it, we understand completely that the iPod changed the world of entertainment.  We also understand that it allows us to be served exclusively by our own desired music and video.  Did we really need a device that allows us to communicate less, and thereby know each other less?  Did we really need help with that?)

Being blind does not keep justice from also being vain.  (Evidently justice was on our minds a bit the past three months.) 

When prayer is the final realistic hope, society has failed.

Overheard at our day job:  when we run away from danger, we protect our internal organs.  Yes.  Quite.

Finally, read this article about Ford workers essentially becoming migrant workers.  Now, go get your copy of "The Grapes of Wrath" and re-read it. 

We'll be back on schedule soon.  Thanks for reading!