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April 25, 2005
I know me very well (at least as far as I can tell)/ and I know what I need
though we did not get the 14 inches of snow ohio did, i was still horrified to experience some flurry action as i sat, literally, freezing my feet off at the cubs game saturday. the cubs were up then tied then up and i was quite excited by the propect of getting to go home a half of inning early and then the pirates tied it...ben promised we wouldn't stay for extra innings (as he was beginning to not be able to feel his nose). But the decision didn't need to be put in action as the pirates posted another run and the cub lost.
of course the next day, when it wasn't snowy and the sun was out and it wasn't physically dangerous to be outside for it, and we didn't go (or watch) because of a midterm today, they won. : P i say to that.
hee hee.
hunk o' man and I went to a Sadar (sp?) at our friends Ben and Julie. They have the cutest dog. She's awesome. Made ben and i set a date for our dog getting. anyways, ben's friend tom also was at the dinner. I really enjoyed it. I really enjoy religious traditions in general, and i liked all of the symbolism in the Sadar. There was also a lot of wine drinking as part of the event...and leaning to the left. It was really cool to be with friends and, hmmm, i don't know, recognizing God's existence and grace. I am pretty distasteful of most organized religions and their holier than thou syndrome, so it is nice to experience religion without it.
i want my tio2 to start crystallizing again. i hate when things stop working.
I am partially consumed by the issue of wal-mart. I heard on npr this morning about this new alliance against wal-mart - including the Sierra club, who takes issue with storm water drainage problems precipitated by wal-mart parking lots.
I shop at wal-mart, well, not actually, but i would if there was one convenient. i shop there when i am in hot springs. i shop there because things are cheap and i am a poor graduate student. Wal-mart is the perfect application of capitalism. By living in a capitalist society, we have to accept that anyone's gain is at the expense of other. I know there are people that don't believe that, but wal-mart is the perfect example. cheap goods come because (1) wal-mart doesn't allow unions, therefore they pay their employees near, if not at, minimum wage. (2) they cajole product makers by volume discount and (3) they buy from china.
Here's the thing i don't understand about all these group protesting wal-mart, they aren't the cause of any of this. They are in existence because much of the united states lives on very little money (less than me per person, and i have no idea how they do it). Why don't these people work on changes that will truly change people's lives like a minimum wage increase, real environmental regulations, nationalize health care? Say they take down wal-mart, something else will replace it. But if we increase people's wages, fix the health care system, protect our environment, these are lasting changes.
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Posted by christina at April 25, 2005 1:38 PM