Loose Leaf Notes

1. I like to give names to the unreachable scenery I spot while driving, like the group of cows grazing in front of an old abandoned school bus that I saw last week and named “A School of Cows.”

2. Longevity, it’s not all about broccoli and it turns out that cheerful, optimistic children are less likely to live long lives than ones who are prudent, worry a bit and like to make plans. More from the study that followed the lives of a group of children for 80 years HERE.

3. How is it that conservative talk show shock jock Rush Limbaugh gets to play liberal animal rights activist’s Chrissie Hynde’s song My City Was Gone (one of my and my son Josh’s favorite song) as his theme show music? There is an answer HERE.

4. Josh recently posed that question. He also reminded me that the dentist at the dental clinic I took him to when he was a child always had Rush Limbaugh ranting on the radio, which he described as painful in more ways than one. “Not only was I at the dentist but I had to listen to Rush Limbaugh too.”

5. Why we should not build anymore nuclear power plants: U.S. storage sites overfilled with spent nuclear fuel, 71,862 tons, with more created every year, and no permanent disposal solution. The industry’s collective pile of waste is growing by about 2,200 tons a year; experts say some of the pools in the United States contain four times the amount of spent fuel that they were designed to handle. ~ Associated Press

6. “We either learn to live the mythic pattern of fate and destiny woven within us or our lives become an unconscious and distorted version of it.” Michael Meade

7. Could Sheen be the past tense of Shine? (And that’s the extent of my comments on sad situation of Charlie Sheen.)

8. Apathy is a cold hearted tyrant. Apathy is pathetic. Apathy is a pathology. Apathy? Who cares? ~ Posted on Facebook by my Dharmacratic Floyd friend Will.

9. Only in Floyd can you get a haircut to live music. See HERE.

10. On April Fools Day in 1957 “Panorama,” a news show on BBC aired footage of Swiss “Spaghetti Farmers” picking spaghetti from trees. The fake footage was aired as a joke, but viewers called in to find out how they could grow their own spaghetti trees. Instead of coming clean, the BBC cheekily replied, “place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best. This and more big April Fool’s pranks HERE.

11. Well said line seen somewhere online this week: Teabaggers are carrying water for the extremely wealthy.

12. The Floyd nuclear connection: My dear friend Johanna who went to the prom with my son Josh rocked it on Chris Matthews’ Hardball talking about nuclear power. Watch HERE

13. What would you do?

More playing Thirteen Thursday HERE.