A little whine served with breakfast cheese
It's Friday, so let me whine a bit:
1) Experts are telling us to throw out our bagged spinach. It may contain e. coli, that nasty, nasty organism that can makes us very sick. Spinach! It's about the only green thing I like and eat almost daily.
I've come to the conclusion that the act of eating is a dangerous thing. Eat cake and you get fat. Eat white rice and count those horrible carbs. Now you eat spinach and you get intestinal problems, maybe even death. Liquid diet anyone?
2) The death of Anna Nicole Smith's son in a Bahamian hospital, where he had come to visit her after the birth of a sister, is about as weird a tragedy as they come. In case your memory needs to be refreshed, Smith is a former centerfold who married a super-wealthy oil tycoon who was more than 60 years her senior. (You think it was love?) The poor little rich geezer kicked the bucket soon after and she's been battling his son in a very public court fight for the multi-millions. Could the death and the fight be related, hmm? Does this sound like an episode of that old primetime soap Dallas? And am I dating myself by referring to J.R. Ewing et al?
3) My 15-year-old had a high school football game last night. Started late and went into overtime. To get off to school he probably slept 5 1/2 hours. I think his first period was physics. Some friends gave me grief because I didn't let him sleep in. My feeling is that school comes first. If he wants to play on the gridiron he still has to perform at the top of his game in the classroom. What I want to know is this: Why do they keep scheduling games on a school night knowing full well that the players and the students who attend will be out late? I suggest we play Sunday afternoons if there aren't enough venues.
1) Experts are telling us to throw out our bagged spinach. It may contain e. coli, that nasty, nasty organism that can makes us very sick. Spinach! It's about the only green thing I like and eat almost daily.
I've come to the conclusion that the act of eating is a dangerous thing. Eat cake and you get fat. Eat white rice and count those horrible carbs. Now you eat spinach and you get intestinal problems, maybe even death. Liquid diet anyone?
2) The death of Anna Nicole Smith's son in a Bahamian hospital, where he had come to visit her after the birth of a sister, is about as weird a tragedy as they come. In case your memory needs to be refreshed, Smith is a former centerfold who married a super-wealthy oil tycoon who was more than 60 years her senior. (You think it was love?) The poor little rich geezer kicked the bucket soon after and she's been battling his son in a very public court fight for the multi-millions. Could the death and the fight be related, hmm? Does this sound like an episode of that old primetime soap Dallas? And am I dating myself by referring to J.R. Ewing et al?
3) My 15-year-old had a high school football game last night. Started late and went into overtime. To get off to school he probably slept 5 1/2 hours. I think his first period was physics. Some friends gave me grief because I didn't let him sleep in. My feeling is that school comes first. If he wants to play on the gridiron he still has to perform at the top of his game in the classroom. What I want to know is this: Why do they keep scheduling games on a school night knowing full well that the players and the students who attend will be out late? I suggest we play Sunday afternoons if there aren't enough venues.
posted by Ana Veciana-Suarez at 8:35 AM
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1 Comments:
Wow - so much to reply to - you have given us quite an assignment today....let me respond in sequence:
1. The USA has probably the safest food in the world. The mere fact that there is a recall on only ONE product and that it makes BIG news just proves that this is a rare event.
2. Ana Nicole is a very strange person - if you have ever seen her being interviewed you know this is a fact. The coroner's report will answer any questions about what happened to the young man. One thing for sure, no matter how distasteful or low class his mother is - this boy's death is a sad event. By the way, the "geezer'" son died recently. So, I am not sure where her case is right now.
3. The reason that the local high schools need to schedule their athletic events on weeknights is that there are VERY few fields available. In Broward County, many schools have their own football fields. Not Dade. They have to share the very few public fields. Talk to your school board if you aren't happy.
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