51 Uses For WD-40
It was news to me that it could be used to relieve arthritis symptoms.
Day: June 4, 2013
When Did We Become British?
I have great admiration for our British cousins, so I was sincerely flattered when asked to speak at Oxford University. I of course accepted, and look forward with great anticipation to this fall, when I’ll visit England for the first time.
The seminar will concentrate on higher education and how it is evolving, but I’ll also be interested in doing a little snooping while I’m over there.
I’m going to see if I can find some clues as to why we here in America seem to be reverting to being a part of Britain once again.
Perhaps I’m overreacting, but notice, if you will, that at Wal-Mart stores (at least the ones around south Jersey) you are directed to enter and exit to your left, sort of like driving on the left side of the road as they do in England. But we keep to the right in this country and pass on the left. Don’t we?
I’m starting to notice this tendency in many other places, particularly at Wawa and my local post office, where people increasingly enter and exit using the left side of the double-door. It’s even happening in my church, where the right hand door is often left closed—that is, until I reach the exit. That’s when I go through the right side, which, in this country, is the right side.
I’ve even had (many) people hold the left hand door open for me as I enter a Wawa. Imagine how disappointed they are when I ignore their misguided courtesy and pull the right-hand door open for myself. (Well, somebody’s got to take a stand for American Independence!)
This disturbing, bogus/foreign trend has now reached the entertainment and news media—the two wannabe national style-setters. Movie and television scripts are now peppered with the British police phrases, “He went missing,” or “The child has gone missing.”
As a long-time devotee of British TV, I’m familiar with this syntax. As a long-time American police officer, I can tell you indisputably that that phraseology was never used in Philadelphia.
Pennsylvanians Want Private Liquor Stores
Pennsylvanians Want Private Liquor Stores — The Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association reports that the latest results from Susquehanna Polling and Research, show that 55 percent of Pennsylvanians want the state out of the liquor business while just 41 percent are against.
Those
who would be more likely to support liquor privatization, however, grew to 69 percent if penalties for selling to minors became stricter and to 68 percent if displaced workers could find jobs in the private sector.
Now, Republicans control the governor’s office, and both houses of the legislature. Who do you think is going to get the blame if this rather popular — and simple — thing goes undone?
Hmmm, Sen Erickson?
Hat tip Bob Guzzardi.
Pennsylvanians Want Private Liquor Stores