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Two comments today, one more controversial than the other...
1) So after my last post about the guy who called the cops about his stolen pot (yes, still legal in Alaska, especially in Fairbanks) I snooped on who was visiting. I do that a lot. I'm a little vain that way, but it is fun to see from where people are checking out the site. Soooo, first hit on the last post...Kingston, Jamaica. Yah mon. Let's work on that stereotype a little more.
2) At the gym today, CNN was hashing and rehashing the current economic crisis, and going on about how a number of retailers won't be with us in 6 months. Very likely true, but is this a bad thing? Perhaps this is the opportunity for our society to become a little less commercial and spend our hard earned money on important things like education, travel, or Heelys (oh yeah, I gots me a pair. Can't stand up on them worth a damn.). I really don't see a huge problem if Sally (or Duke, not to be sexist) can't get that new sweater from the Gap or Bombay Company goes out of business and I can't get that faux Egyptian mummy bookend set (mind you, our house is coordinated in ancient Egyptian style).
Un-American, you say. You know, this is actually how capitalism is supposed to work. Some companies succeed and some fail. I have to admit that I am speaking from something of a position of priviledge in a job that is very unlikely to go away (keep getting colds, folks), and I feel bad for the workers at these companies. But I don't mind the idea of that vast spread of Generica that makes every open air mall look like the next one in the next suburb might be going away a little.
See you later at the Olive Garden. Mmmmm, breadsticks.
PS-Pass the video of Jackson around. It already has 150 hits. I want it to go viral.
1) So after my last post about the guy who called the cops about his stolen pot (yes, still legal in Alaska, especially in Fairbanks) I snooped on who was visiting. I do that a lot. I'm a little vain that way, but it is fun to see from where people are checking out the site. Soooo, first hit on the last post...Kingston, Jamaica. Yah mon. Let's work on that stereotype a little more.
2) At the gym today, CNN was hashing and rehashing the current economic crisis, and going on about how a number of retailers won't be with us in 6 months. Very likely true, but is this a bad thing? Perhaps this is the opportunity for our society to become a little less commercial and spend our hard earned money on important things like education, travel, or Heelys (oh yeah, I gots me a pair. Can't stand up on them worth a damn.). I really don't see a huge problem if Sally (or Duke, not to be sexist) can't get that new sweater from the Gap or Bombay Company goes out of business and I can't get that faux Egyptian mummy bookend set (mind you, our house is coordinated in ancient Egyptian style).
Un-American, you say. You know, this is actually how capitalism is supposed to work. Some companies succeed and some fail. I have to admit that I am speaking from something of a position of priviledge in a job that is very unlikely to go away (keep getting colds, folks), and I feel bad for the workers at these companies. But I don't mind the idea of that vast spread of Generica that makes every open air mall look like the next one in the next suburb might be going away a little.
See you later at the Olive Garden. Mmmmm, breadsticks.
PS-Pass the video of Jackson around. It already has 150 hits. I want it to go viral.
Labels: Alaska, Bombay company, Economy, egypt, Fairbanks, marijuana, Rockem Sockem Robots
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