Le Wrath di Khan

From bentleywg: Le Wrath di Khan: the metafilter page has links for both inside and outside the US.

Brilliant Husband notes with glee (puns intended): "The hero is a baritone, and the villain is a tenor!"

Le Wrath di Khan

From bentleywg: Le Wrath di Khan: the metafilter page has links for both inside and outside the US.

Brilliant Husband notes with glee (puns intended): "The hero is a baritone, and the villain is a tenor!"

Warning!

A little girl ate some Skittles that she seems to have found in the bathroom in OUR AIRPORT, Tampa International. Only they weren't just Skittles; there were Oxycodone pills mixed in with them. The grandparents think the bag was sealed, but they weren't really checking closely; they didn't realize that she hadn't brought them from home.
Articles in The St. Pete Times and The Tampa Tribune.

I feel just sick about this. I can totally imagine Small Child finding candy and hiding it from us, because we limit her intake. She can open most candy by herself and might know to make sure it's still sealed, but the grandparents here didn't realize it may not have been properly sealed, so how would a Small Child know? Unlike this four-year-old, our child might then eat it alone in her room, perhaps at bedtime, so that it might be hours before we realized anything was wrong. It might, in fact, be too late by the time we realized.

Please be alert, especially if you have kids. We would never let SC eat candy she just found somewhere--but she knows that now and so might keep it secret. It's important to talk to kids and let them know how serious this is.

ETA: I should note that the girl was released from the hospital Monday; she's fine now.

Warning!

A little girl ate some Skittles that she seems to have found in the bathroom in OUR AIRPORT, Tampa International. Only they weren't just Skittles; there were Oxycodone pills mixed in with them. The grandparents think the bag was sealed, but they weren't really checking closely; they didn't realize that she hadn't brought them from home.
Articles in The St. Pete Times and The Tampa Tribune.

I feel just sick about this. I can totally imagine Small Child finding candy and hiding it from us, because we limit her intake. She can open most candy by herself and might know to make sure it's still sealed, but the grandparents here didn't realize it may not have been properly sealed, so how would a Small Child know? Unlike this four-year-old, our child might then eat it alone in her room, perhaps at bedtime, so that it might be hours before we realized anything was wrong. It might, in fact, be too late by the time we realized.

Please be alert, especially if you have kids. We would never let SC eat candy she just found somewhere--but she knows that now and so might keep it secret. It's important to talk to kids and let them know how serious this is.

ETA: I should note that the girl was released from the hospital Monday; she's fine now.

IBARW and Obama's "slip"

It's International Blog Against Racism Week--how quickly that rolled around again! And how timely it is, too.

I have probably said enough about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., here. Everyone knows that President Obama said that that the police acted "stupidly," and he has retracted that adverb at least twice. This morning on Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep and Juan Williams discussed the issue (you can hear it here), and tomorrow's plan for Obama, Crowley, and Gates to get together over some beer. Williams refers to Obama having "slipped in such a way as to betray some kind of loyalty on racial terms" and says "slipped" more than once. (Inskeep is white, Williams black.) Meanwhile, a lot of people seem to be going much farther and calling Obama a racist.

( My thoughts )

IBARW and Obama's "slip"

It's International Blog Against Racism Week--how quickly that rolled around again! And how timely it is, too.

I have probably said enough about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., here. Everyone knows that President Obama said that that the police acted "stupidly," and he has retracted that adverb at least twice. This morning on Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep and Juan Williams discussed the issue (you can hear it here), and tomorrow's plan for Obama, Crowley, and Gates to get together over some beer. Williams refers to Obama having "slipped in such a way as to betray some kind of loyalty on racial terms" and says "slipped" more than once. (Inskeep is white, Williams black.) Meanwhile, a lot of people seem to be going much farther and calling Obama a racist.

( My thoughts )