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A good time
Cheryl’s cousin is friends with Richard Thomas, of Walton’s fame. She went with her mother to see Twelve Angry Men at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center this afternoon, and got to meet him afterwards.
During the show, Cheryl let it be known that pessimism is contagious (me being the source), continuously telling her mother that there was no way they’d get to meet him afterwards.
Just goes to show you, sometimes the worst thing that can happen is someone would say no – and every now and again you can score a yes.
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Beware of the man with an iPhone
Here’s a story that comes to you courtesy of a blogging friend of mine:
ATA Tries To Have You Arrested For Using Your iPhone In “Airplane Mode”
Here’s a primer: two people who can’t get along bring down an airplane short of its destination.
I wonder what I would have done, if I’d been the guy with the phone. Part of me thinks I’d just take the path of least resistance and put the thing away. Another part of me thinks I’d have ended up in the clink.
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Cause to question our supposed superiority
In the months since nooses dangling from a schoolyard tree raised racial tensions in Jena, La., the frightening symbol of segregation-era lynchings has been turning up around the country.
Nooses were left in a black Coast Guard cadet’s bag, at a Long Island police station locker room, on a Maryland college campus, and, just this week, on the office door of a black professor at Columbia University in New York.
Maybe we shouldn’t be judged by a few bad apples, but we should be judged by how we tolerate them; and when they start popping up all over, it certainly appears that we tolerate them just fine.