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Interesting discussion of multi-culturalism in a welfare state.

I was at a party recently. You know, one of those ’tis the season kind of affairs. I was given a glass of wine. Can’t say as I remember the wine too much, but I do remember the wine charm. Wine glass charms come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. They are used to identify which wine glass is yours. Now there are two major assumptions in that:

1. You remember which wine charm is yours, and after lots of wine, that gets hard.
2. You can clearly distinguish your wine charm from the others, broken glass, and food bits on the table, after drinking lots of wine.

Wine charms are great gifts for people who either have everything or often get confused which drink is theirs or both. So… I got a wine charm, which was not too fancy. There was one word on it: Simplify Now if you have a collection of wine charms, it is fairly safe to say that you are pretty damned far from living a simple life. I think the charm misses the point. However, let’s say you take the wine charm’s advice and simplify. Start with throwing out your massive wine charm collection. But, wait, how do I tell which drink is mine? Try these helpful hints:

Go Little Joe, go!

This guy is still my hero.

I’ve seen a lot of shows in my time, and I’ve seen some BAD opening acts…Jason and the Scorchers opening for Bob Dylan in 1989 come to mind…but how many people can say they had somebody referred to as “His holiness” open for you? No, this isn’t about Pope John Paul II opening for the smoothe 15th century stylin’s of W and the Republican party. Tuesday night favorite Tom Waits did a show a couple days ago and had “HH”, The Dalai Lama open for him. Link below goes to the review in the NY Times, but the best graf by far, referring to HH’s day beginning at 3:30 am… “Tom Waits, who closed the show in his usual guise as a lowlife sage, wisecracked: “So his holiness goes to bed at 7:30? That’s not the holiness I used to know.”” Enjoy Star Starts a Show; Tom Waits Ends It

Ian, your identity crisis is scaring me. Don’t go changing to try to please us…

Apparently, I have to become Scott too.

The conversion process is a bit easier than I expected. However, I haven’t hooked Josh up with an account yet so I am going to move his stuff over from yahoogroups for him. This is not an attempt to steal his thunder… just borrow it and repackage it.