Idependence Day In Space

by turfgrrl on July 4, 2008 9:38 am · 1 comment

Ahem, Happy 4th everybody. Enjoy that space chicken.

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Greenwich Wants To Shut Down Wiffle Ball Field

by turfgrrl on July 4, 2008 9:31 am · 37 comments

The fiel dof dreams 10 years later. The Hollywood script about to be penned, an abandoned lot owned by town of Greenwich, teens clear it of weeds and added fencing. Then the Greenwich political flunkies get into the mix and say no permission, no mas. From the Advocate:

Taco Bell Field?

Representatives of the fast-food chain famous for its chalupas and gorditas tried to reach out yesterday to offer their support to a group of local teens who are facing eviction from the Wiffle ball field they built on a vacant town-owned lot in Riverside.

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Vision Testing In Schools

July 4, 2008

With all the tests that we inflict on the student population these days, you’d think that there’d be some sort of national movement to do some basic physical testing that might be actually useful knowledge to students, teachers and parents. Simple vision and hearing tests would perhaps go a long way to determining if there are physical problems making it difficult for students to adapt to the modern learning environment.

I guess the larger issue is how we as a society don’t quite get that basic preventative health care is a commodity that should be affordable and accessible to all. But back to vision and education, from The Center for Health and Healthcare in Schools:

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The Big No Way

July 4, 2008

James Ellroy writes some killer crime fiction. LA Confidential. The Black Dhalia. Modern Classics of noir crime genre. He never wrote about the Cleveland Torso Murders, even though you had Eliot Ness and the the flats of Cleveland to work with, mostly because Ellroy writes about LA, and crime, and messy acts of violence and investigation that chase the drama around real life stories And it’s Ellroy at his noirest that I think of when reading about the crime scene investigation of the shooting on Flax Hill. Let’s start with this Hour report:

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