Just A Thought Or Two. . .

The AWAD (A Word A Day) word for today is spinster.

Spinster:
(noun)
1. A woman who has remained single beyond the usual age of marrying.
2. In law, a woman who has never married.
3. A woman whose occupation is spinning.

In this supposedly enlightened era there should never arise an occasion to use the word spinster, except in a fictional period story, of course, or possibly within an essay describing laughably archaic words used in an earlier age. The first two definitions above are of little or no use today because of the proliferation of women who remain single beyond the usual age of marrying (there is no longer a usual age of marrying) and it is no longer rare to fine women who never marry. And the third definition is moot, as spinning wool is no longer done by hand by an individual except as perhaps a hobby or as a historical throwback performed by ignorant cult-members or other examples of the mentally defective.

Note:
moot: of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)

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By the way: Sharks DO get cancer

So, don't get taken in by that old myth to the contrary.

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Labor Day 2010

Hot from Chef Mike's grill -- Cedar-planked Alaskan salmon, N.Y. Strip steaks, and fresh asparagus, served with roasted Cheesy Potatoes, and for dessert fresh strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, and bananas submerged in vanilla pudding, served over Angel Food cake, all topped with Tim's fresh homemade (and awesome) whipped cream.

Here's hoping that your Labor Day holiday was as enjoyable as was mine.

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A Robert Persig quotation in The Guardian asks: Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Such questions point to an assumption of self-importance, of excessive personal vanity. That there must be a motive for being is to presume that human existence is significant.

Or so it seems to me.

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An article in The American Spectator, titled:
America's Ruling Class -- And The Perils Of Revolution is a real eye-opener, if the reader struggles against personal prejudice and works to keep an open mind.

This article is quite long, but is well worth the time invested.

In my opinion.

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I'm not sure if I have previously posted the picture of a roadrunner running across the road, taken one evening last week as Mike and I were accompanying Eva on her nightly walk. In case I neglected to do so, here is that photo?

Roadrunner, Tucson AZ September 2010

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
--Unknown