Articles!

[conuly]

(Wow, it's like all I ever do anymore!)

So Pretzel Crisps has changed their icky ads to... MORE icky ads. This is a pity, because their pretzels actually taste pretty good.

Here's some information on actual shelf life (compared to use-by dates)

One on the media and 11 year old girls using the pill (most likely for medical reasons)

Another editorial on the NOT-A-MOSQUE that would NOT be at the WTC site. (Also, an interesting version of the twenty zillion words for snow myth.)

On using superheroes to teach philosophy

Apparently, orangutans will mime to communicate. Cool!

And here's aNOTHER editorial on the non-mosque. One of the comments goes "Why here, when there isn't a big Muslim population here?" Well, I don't know if many Muslims live in Lower Manhattan, but a lot of them work there. I have another article coming for a later post about two mosques in the area that have to regularly turn away worshippers due to lack of room. That kinda indicates to me that they need a new place to pray.

Apparently, you're legally required to have tons of bright lights and signage in Times Square. (Even the cops and the train station have neon lights.) I had no idea!

"What stimulus could mean if it included the formerly incarcerated"

On an article about prisons and voter representation. Fascinating and disturbing.

And finally, on the proposal to close schools in NYC for Muslim holidays. (Of course, IF we were to do this, we wouldn't have to cut school days. We could start the year earlier, or end it later. Or we could increase school HOURS somewhat to make up the lost instructional time. It needn't be in small increments, it could be one half-hour a week or something. There are so many options.)

Comments

[redbird]

Bless the landmarks preservation board: Times Square is a historical district. That means new buildings have to be in the character of the existing stuff. It doesn't have to be tasteless, just bright.

I wonder occasionally whether the people who wrote the original legislation were thinking of this, or just about not wanting Brutalist concrete in a neighborhood of brownstones.

[conuly]

Hard to tell. It's fascinating, though, in a disturbing way. There's a REASON I don't go to Times Square, and it's only mostly because of the tourists.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Articles!
(Wow, it's like all I ever do anymore!)

Yes, Connie, that's true.

Not necessarily bad, though!

[conuly]

Nothing much interesting has happened this summer, I'm afraid, other than the whole orthopedics debacle.