Look — Up in the Sky
It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s pigeon poop! Headline of the day, from nypost.com: “Illinois lawmaker pooped on by pigeon during TV interview — about bird droppings.” Who said there’s no justice?
I’m not that surprised at the news that vaping has been linked to respiratory problems and in some cases even death. I have to repress a chuckle whenever I see someone on the street taking an unbelievably deep drag on one of the devices and emitting a huge cloud. Of course, the warnings may merely be the continuing efforts of killjoys to put an end to smoking. I’ve always hated the practice but accept that some folks love it, and I grudgingly tolerate the stink of tobacco products, which e-cigs don’t have. On my morning walk my mind covered a lot of ground and I got to wondering if the deep breathing exercises I do periodically throughout the day will eventually lead to respiratory problems. I do them to avoid taking medication for high blood pressure. That fear was relieved when I came across an article on the issue in question at nypost.com. Here are two excerpts: “The cases were linked not to nicotine e-cigarettes but to vaping THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.” “Globally, tens of millions of people have used billions of e-cigarettes without any acute ill effects.” It’s getting to the point where one has to be skeptical of anything reported in the mainstream media.
NFL: Giants fans are hoping that Pat Shurmur is not one of those coaches who were great as an assistant and for some mysterious reason cannot win as the head man… Meanwhile, will Jets fans, whose hopes have again been crushed and are stuck with a third stringer starting at QB, be okay with the signing of Colin Kaepernick? Although I believe he’s a schmuck, he has every bit the right to work as the political schmucks from coast to coast.
From Yahoo Sports, in my own words: There’s a great story occurring in MLB. 29-year-old San Francisco Giants rookie rightfielder Mike Yastrzemski, grandson of Red Sox great Yaz, is having a fine season. In 328 at-bats he has 19 homers and 51 RBI. Oddly, he toiled for six years in the minor league system of the dreadful Baltimore Orioles, and never even received a September call up. It will be a memorable night for the family, as the Giants are visiting Fenway Park. Wouldn’t it be great if he hit one out?
My thanks to the gregarious woman who bought five cookbooks, and to the one who had learned a lot about me from a fellow tenant, who purchased five kids’ books; and to Wolf, who chose two DVDs in Russian, a novel in that language, and The New York Restaurant Cookbook: Recipes from the City’s Best Chefs by Florence Fabricant and NYC & Company; and to the gentleman with the little boy’s voice who selected a book on Zen; and to the guy who went home with a book in Russian; and to the one who kicked off day’s proceedings by buying a book on Italian cooking and two books in Russian; and to the young man who donated two books, and to whoever left two on the little kiosk near where I set up shop.
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