When I was a child we were told to eat all the food on our plate because it had something to do with thinking about the people starving in China. These instructions have varied over the years as to whom we are supposed to be thinking about. (I’ve read in the past fifty years over 375 million Chinese have moved from the lower to the middle class. That’s more people than we have in the U.S. (Now I can’t stop thinking about the well fed Chinese while I am eating.)
- This week I read a Pokemon shaped Cheeto sold for almost $90,000 at an art auction…I do not know if the buyer has eaten it yet.
- And I read in San Francisco you could buy a Strawberry, imported from Japan, that would cost you $19, before tip…I hear it is very tasty. If someone paid $19 for a strawberry I’ll bet he or she ate the whole thing without having to be reminded about the starving people – wherever they may be.
- I see there is a company valued at more than $10 Billion whose mission it is to bring back the Woolly Mammoth and the Tasmanian Tiger. This seems to be a worthwhile study and I hope DOGE knows nothing about it.
- The company (referred to in the above para.) has been working on developing ‘Transgenic Mice’ (which somehow relates to a hair fiber of the extinct Woolly Mammoth)…this is the same mouse that your President Trump mistook for a scientifically manufactured “Transgendered” Mouse in his State of the disUnion speech the other night.
- I read 40% of American kids “can’t read good” I mean maybe they are too hungry to read good, maybe we should be thinking about the hungry kids in the U.S. while we eat our $19 strawberries. But once the kids get to ‘reading good’, maybe they will be sickened by what they read about…It gets complicated. No?
- “Before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field, before child labor laws that precluded that. I was a paperboy and when I was in high school; I worked my entire way through,” -Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) telling a reporter why kids would be better off if they got jobs – like he did, back in the day. If Rick had been given free lunches and studied harder in school he might not have grown up so mean. See what happens when you didn’t think about the starving people in Georgia.
To quote:
“The master was a fat, healthy man; but he turned very pale. He gazed in stupified astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The assistants were paralysed with wonder; the boys with fear. ‘What!’ said the master at length, in a faint voice.
‘Please, sir,’ replied Oliver, ‘I want some more.’
The master aimed a blow at Oliver’s head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arm; and shrieked aloud for the beadle.
The board were sitting in solemn conclave, when Mr Bumble rushed into the room in great excitement, and addressing the gentleman in the high chair, said,
‘Mr Limbkins, I beg your pardon, sir! Oliver Twist has asked for more!’
There was a general start. Horror was depicted on every countenance. “-Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist”, 1838…The more things change, the more they remain the same.
That’s it for this week…and “Goodnight” to Richard wherever you are.
