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Clotheslines are banned or restricted for about sixty million Americans?! What kind of repressive country is this? Unfortunately, I don’t think I live in a neighbourhood that bans clotheslines, because I would really like to put up a forbidden clothesline … Continue reading →

I guess that takes the pressure off Sydney to get out there and plant his garden! The bathroom looks very pretty with blue-and-white tiles neatly laid all over the floor.  But we can’t walk on it for a few days, … Continue reading →

Sydney and I will be in and out a bit more than usual in the next few days.  Our bathroom is being tiled and, since the bathroom is the room that connects bedroom and living room (the only two other … Continue reading →

Well. Never mind tobacco, alcohol, and so on. The real killer is salt, at 150,000 American deaths annually, according to the CSPI. Does anyone know what happened/is happening to the CSPI’s lawsuit? Sydney P.S. I promise the next post will … Continue reading →

Once again Sydney and I arrived home from church and spent the next half hour “finishing up” our conversation about the sermon . . . while still sitting in the car. We finally got out when our housemate stepped out … Continue reading →

The previous discussions about alcohol on this blog have prompted me to wonder how we are supposed to keep reasonable about the issue. It seems everyone’s invested in it for various reasons, which makes it a lot more difficult to … Continue reading →

Sydney was busy talking away to family on the phone in Low German, which I easily tuned out, until he turns to me mid-conversation with that question.  Hehe, he’ll not be living this down for awhile 🙂  You’d think that … Continue reading →

Note that the following countries were neither picked as being representative nor randomly. Rather, they are the ones that have often been cited in conversations that I’ve had. All the data comes from two WHO reports: ‘Global Status Report on … Continue reading →

There have been a few reports recently about the increase in binge drinking among college students (here’s a sample piece). Apparently half of American college students now meet the criteria for alcohol/drug dependencies. Here at Cornell about a third of … Continue reading →

Liberal hypocrisy is hardly news, of course, but this comparison of the Bush and Gore residences is interesting anyway. In brief, the Al & Tipper Gore residence apparently consumes about twenty times as much energy as the average American home, … Continue reading →