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Lawmakers often do things today they know have future consequences with the attitude that will be another legislature’s challenge.
On the way home I drove by my spot and my heart sank. It was a realtor’s “For Sale” sign. All I could think of was Joni Mitchell’s song “Big Yellow Taxi” and the verse, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
The harvesting of kangaroo skins to become part of sports shoes to be sold in this country has animal rights activists outraged. New Hampshire Animal Rights League recently protested this practice at Dick’s Sporting Goods at the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester.
“Proto-Indo-European” is first of all the name of a language, one that left no writing but is certain to have existed because it can be reconstructed in some detail by working back from its many daughter languages.
Today I muse joyfully on footwear, on dressing up the southern hemisphere of our bodies, and enjoying that wonderful fashion of shoes.
I’ve now received at least thirty messages in response to my last Local News Blues post, “Big Philanthropy Is Infuriating Local News Publishers.”
A couple of days of fifty and sixty degree weather has me shedding my winter coat and heading for the river to fight the crowd. The spring-like weather had produced a “Hatch” of fly fishers on the river.
Friday with most lawmakers already at their destinations for the week-long vacation, it wasn’t exactly a news dump, but an ethics opinion dump with a couple of sticky issues.