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If anyone wants to read further on the issue of value-creation and the attributes a country must have to foster it, I highly recommend a book by the noted sociologist/historian Francis Fukuyama, called “Trust”. The title relates to the key ingredient necessary in society: “Social capital”
1. Airports — I’m partial to Madrid. Great blend of modern design and functionality.
2. Snow — tomorrow am will be rough if there’s no snow day.
3. “Organic” maple syrup — there may be a problem of misinterpretation, jackal. After your initial rant about this, I looked for 100% maple syrup that was not also labelled organic. I looked in C-town, bodegas, Key Food, Union Market and Fairway. No such thing on the shelves. Every container of real maple syrup is labelled “organic” in big letters. So “organic” is just a marker for the real stuff as opposed to Log Cabin, Mrs. Butterworth and the like, and when someone says they want to buy organic syrup. they may just be looking for the real deal, nothing more puritanical than that. Yes, they should just say “real” instead of organic, but organic is just the way the real stuff is labelled around here.
4. Big band headed east — must be Ellington (“Far East Suite” was one of his later works).
TextperV, just stick a boob into his mouth
Biffy – It’s really whizard! (And I also like Hula Hoops.)
Legion – I used to do a lot of writing for NASA & very nearly got on a list to go up on a zero-g flight but my cancer came & everything got screwed up.
Legion- I have hula hooped and I love it. But if you are trying to tell us what makes America exceptional, the invention of the Hula Hoop is not it.
benson, no true genius would develop their genius stuff in China where the patent/trademark protection is so so shitty. I hold my judgement till when China decides to enforce the trademarks and see what happens.
And just as “raunch hour” is in full swing, the kid wakes up from his nap. He always does that. Just as we’re about to……it’s his cue to interrupt.
Someone please say something i would.
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If they didn’t invent it, they perfected it.
Americans invented obesity.