Archive | April, 2004

Yay for Benton Co. Oregon

From ‘s journal. For the moment, I’m very proud to live in Benton county: PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) — In a new twist in the battle over same-sex marriage roiling the United States, a county in Oregon has banned all marriages — gay and heterosexual — until the state decides who can and who cannot wed.  Read more »

Which OS are You?</

Which OS are You?

McDonalds Gets a new CEO

On a private mailing list today a young friend had asked why were were discussing the new CEO of McDonalds and why it mattered. I think it was meant to be rhetorical but it made me think a bit and I ended up writing this answer. 1) Why? Because McDonalds, as an entity, is one  Read more »

Learned something interesting

At least I found it interesting. Yesterday on my drive home from the author of: Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America by Laura Shapiro (Hardcover – April 2004) was being interviewed on NPR. The book is a food history study of the many foods that came out of military use in WW2  Read more »

Which Nigerian spammer are You?

Which Nigerian spammer are You?