sustenance

1.  The Rotund makes this point about how people want to suck you in to their diet talk, in part, because dieting is all about performing “goodness.”  Brilliant.  I’m going to be mulling this over, especially in the context of women and our dieting.

Saturday night was Geezer Night. We get together several times each year for dinner out or at one of our homes with everybody bringing a dish. Good food and drinks are not the focal point of these get togethers, rather they are celebrations of each other, of lives started together, gone off in diverse directions, and now merged anew as we found each other again.

I wrote this last night, shortly before the Starbucks employee told me I had about 15 minutes to get home before the storm hit. That storm leveled 30 houses and killed 12 people about ten minutes up the road from me, but the Ferrier family is okay. I'll write more about it over at Parents later today. Assuming that Bruiser gives me five damn minutes to myself.

Vasko Kohlmayer, writing for American Thinker, discusses what America's declining casualties reveal.

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