Wal-Mart / Low calorie food / Trouble in France / Now it is the time
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. Jean-Paul Sartre
NY Times is having kind on Wal-Mart bashing week going on. It publishes stories about the retailer almost every day. Of course, there are some bad practices as I have written earlier (and today it was reported that the senior managers of W-M were advising their cleaning personnel suppliers in how to employ illegal immigrant below minimum vage). But Wall Street Journal had a good point. Namely, if Americans would think that W-M is a bad thing/company, the solution would be easy: just stop shopping there. Instead, Americans seem to value the low prices more than the other side of the coin.
I bought a packet of non-sugar chewing gum. The package has a warning saying "Not low calorie food". Does it mean that chewing gum is not food, or that this specific chewing gum is not low calorie? It has 5 calories per piece - so chewing the whole package would add 60 calories to the daily diet.
Some bad trouble is festering in France. For 10 nights now, some desperate young people in poor suburbs have rioted, burned cars, shot the police etc. They are angry as they cannot feel part of the French society. Some of them are even third generation African or Middle-Eastern immigrants, but still they are outcasts, unemployed and without hope. The solution would be to give them hope, opportunities, employment. This would integrate them in the society. But instead, the interior minister has declared "a war on violence", which is an oxymoron. It is strange: if the farmers riot in France, the government takes notice and changes its policies (even if it cost huge amount of money in term of subsidies and international status in terms of opposing reduction of farm subsides, which are hurting both Europeans and everyone in poor countries). But when the young riot, the solution is a war.
As Goethe puts it: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it". I can dream of writing my thesis before the end of semester. So, I will just start writing after taking my bike to the shop and after having some vegetarian food in Buddha's delight. And after reading today's newspapers. The goal is to get 5 more pages by midnight. I am quite sure I have to write some blog at the same time just to keep myself on.
Alun perin julkaistu kuukausikoosteessa "Blogs November 2005".
Wal-Mart
NY Times is having kind on Wal-Mart bashing week going on. It publishes stories about the retailer almost every day. Of course, there are some bad practices as I have written earlier (and today it was reported that the senior managers of W-M were advising their cleaning personnel suppliers in how to employ illegal immigrant below minimum vage). But Wall Street Journal had a good point. Namely, if Americans would think that W-M is a bad thing/company, the solution would be easy: just stop shopping there. Instead, Americans seem to value the low prices more than the other side of the coin. Low calorie food
I bought a packet of non-sugar chewing gum. The package has a warning saying "Not low calorie food". Does it mean that chewing gum is not food, or that this specific chewing gum is not low calorie? It has 5 calories per piece - so chewing the whole package would add 60 calories to the daily diet. Trouble in France
Some bad trouble is festering in France. For 10 nights now, some desperate young people in poor suburbs have rioted, burned cars, shot the police etc. They are angry as they cannot feel part of the French society. Some of them are even third generation African or Middle-Eastern immigrants, but still they are outcasts, unemployed and without hope. The solution would be to give them hope, opportunities, employment. This would integrate them in the society. But instead, the interior minister has declared "a war on violence", which is an oxymoron. It is strange: if the farmers riot in France, the government takes notice and changes its policies (even if it cost huge amount of money in term of subsidies and international status in terms of opposing reduction of farm subsides, which are hurting both Europeans and everyone in poor countries). But when the young riot, the solution is a war. Now it is the time
As Goethe puts it: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it". I can dream of writing my thesis before the end of semester. So, I will just start writing after taking my bike to the shop and after having some vegetarian food in Buddha's delight. And after reading today's newspapers. The goal is to get 5 more pages by midnight. I am quite sure I have to write some blog at the same time just to keep myself on.Alun perin julkaistu kuukausikoosteessa "Blogs November 2005".
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