Category: General

You don’t have to love them.  You just have to respect their rights.Ed Koch (1924-2013) Former NYC Mayor

There was an article in Time magazine this week, 18-Feb-2013, on the controversy of Etsy artisans accused of mass producing items for sale.  In the article, they showed examples of stuff you could purchase on Etsy, and I was struck by the interesting design of this “Steampunk” style lamp.  The link after the picture shows…

I’ve always wanted to be recognized because I’m one of the twenty million who are the top 10% of most viewed profiles of the two-hundred million users…  I wonder by what bounding time frame that is calculated upon.via email from LinkedIn, Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:32:09 -0800

Mike Casey writes, “Government positions paid for by the taxpayer are not jobs, they are a utilization of government funds that drain the treasury and add nothing to the economy” (Villager Inbox, December 5).  By government positions, does he mean police officers, firefighters, teachers, scientists, public works construction and maintenance works, engineers, judges, food inspectors…

Friday night, 21-Dec-2012, I got mail in my work email box from some Area Wildlife Supervisor in northern Minnesota letting everyone know that the USPS had setup a PO Box for condolences for the families and friends of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre; and included a poem written by his sister.  As tragic as this…