Forget the stock market. I'm standing in the Stop&Shop and looking at the milk prices: $4.29 a gallon.
This is the kind of hard number that matters. Consider: milk $4.29 a gallon; eggs $2.29 a dozen; orange juice (on sale) $3 for a half gallon. It adds up too quickly.
Of course, you can save some cash on prepackaged stuff, but that makes eating healthy (or is it healthily?) that much more difficult.
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OK. So I'm in the mall and I hear on the speaker a “Ratpack”-style version of “Moondance,” complete with jazz orcheatra. It seemed a good idea, but a listen to the sweet-voiced singer, who I think was Michael Buble, left me wondering what the rush was about. He was pushing the tempo without reason and sang as if he didn't care what he was singing about. as long as you could turn the song into another cliched finger-snapper. Basically, it lacked soul. If you want “Moondance,” queue up Van Morrison.
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Standing in line at Target, I noticed the cover of the National Enquirer touting an expose on Sarah Palin's personal ife (the hidden truth, affairs, etc.). The likelihood that there's any truth in anything the published is just about zilch. But it does raise the question as to whether she is prepared for this kind of scrutiny. As with the legitimate issues — Trooper-Gate, the bridge), the spotlight will be bright and it will be interesting to see how she holds up under a level of glare to which she can in no way be accustomed.
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Apparently, Pyne Road in Kendall Park is flooded out. I'll find out soon enough –I'm heading into it.
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This is a good column from Mary Mitchell in the Chicago Sun-Times that calls Sarah Palin out for the coded language she used in her Wednesday night speech. Consider:
During her debut, Palin electrified the Republicans, but she also shook up every registered voter in the ‘hood.
Besides mocking the historic breakthrough of Barack Obama emerging as the Democrats’ nominee, Palin was relentless in her use of language that reinforces divisions among black and white voters — particularly pitting small-town people against the rest of us.
She explains:
It is scary that a woman who hails from a small town in Alaska felt so at home on the national stage being downright mean.
And for some of us, Palin reinforces every stereotype, rightly or wrongly, of what we think white people think in those small towns.
“We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity and dignity,” she said.
Does that mean people who grew up in urban Americas are less honest, less sincere and have less dignity?
“They love their country, in good times and bad, and they’re always proud of America,” Palin said.
Does that mean the rest of us are unpatriotic?
Although a spokesman for McCain told me that Palin’s comments about McCain being the “kind of fellow whose name you will find on war memorials in small towns,” was not a put-down of Obama’s name, given Palin’s rapid-fire attack, I can see why some people took it that way.
Hank Kalet 