Berlin
- Safety from RAF bombing raids, snipers, trebuchets, Greek fire, Greek sovereign debt, etc.
- Being able to make reference to "the bunker" in a grotesque German accent, i.e. "git to ze bunka", and mean it. Way nicer ring to it than "let's go home".
- Really, really shitty cell phone reception.
- The high door thresholds will present problems for drunk Rustam.
Bank robber planned crime and punishment
James Richard Verone woke up June 9 with a sense of anticipation.
He took a shower.
Ironed his shirt.
Hailed a cab.
Then robbed a bank.
He wasn’t especially nervous. If anything, Verone said he was excited to finally execute his plan to gain access to free medical care.
Crazy story that touches on much of what is wrong with American society and civil services. A related quote from Jimmy Carter's recent op-ed on the war on drugs: "Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pointed out that, in 1980, 10 percent of his state’s budget went to higher education and 3 percent to prisons; in 2010, almost 11 percent went to prisons and only 7.5 percent to higher education."
Eating In and Around Seattle
To eat in and around Seattle, which I did recently and recommend heartily, isn’t merely to eat well. It is to experience something that even many larger, more gastronomically celebrated cities and regions can’t offer, not to this degree: a profound and exhilarating sense of place.
To quote Bart Scott, "can't wait".
The Myth That Vegetables Are Good For You
Vegetable proponents are willing to go to great lengths to "prove" that their disgusting foodstuffs are indispensible. Now that the vitamins and minerals traditionally found only in vegetables can be eaten in convenient vegetable-free pill form, they've had to look long and hard for even the slightest hint that something else may be lurking in vegetables that makes them healthy.The biggest "win" for these desperate, hard-pressed sleuths is vegetable fiber.
The dude really does not like to eat his vegetables. Entertaining.
