An occasional roundup of things that don't matter very much. got your goat? More and more companies are using goats to manage the grass. rent-a-goat.com, for example, will bring in seven goats to mow your average size lawn for a couple of hundred dollars, completely free of carbon emissions. The Wall Street journal reports that… Continue reading news you can’t use
mosque update
Haaretz reports that sources in New York said on Monday that Muslim religious and business leaders will announce plans to abandon the project in the next few days.
a mosque in Manhattan
We don’t get to rest in the freedom of religion provided us by the First Amendment if we don’t extend that grace to others.
hero or zero?
Over at Fox news, an article about the flight attendant who cussed out a rude passenger, grabbed a couple of beers, and slid down the escape hatch, asks if he is as cool as all his fans think he is. Hero or zero, the story asked. Well, that's easy. Zero. Yes, passengers (and customers of… Continue reading hero or zero?
of porches and picnics
We should all be about the work of sheltering each other, providing momentary sanctuary.
