I'd not heard the term until reading Mr. Pollan's "Unhappy Meals":

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?pagewanted=all

La définition:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Transwiki:Flexitarianism

These days, about the only meat I eat is when I eat with office-folk or grab something fast-food-window-terrible on the way home from somewhere (MUST HAVE BURGER). Even for our anniversary dinner @ Restaurant Eve I had 100% veggie fare.

Who'd a thunk it?

Heard on Writer's Alamanac:

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.
-- A.J. Liebling (1964) Mollie and Other War Pieces

The one person on my team that I care about and who is smart, competent, resourceful and insightful is leaving. He's off to work for a financial services company that apparently actually values their employees.

The rest of my team is basically summed up by the following Banksy quote:

"A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to."

Hell begins ... now!

"People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did."

Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men

An interesting comparison of the 1963 edition and the 1991 edition of Richard Scarry's "The Best Word Book Ever". The summary is:

1. they took out the indians


2. dad helps out in the kitchen now


3. girls are taking over

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kokogiak/sets/1425737/

I wonder what other books they've messed with? :-(

This morning's 5AM drive to work was brought to you by Ishmael (and peculiarly good 7-11 coffee, and the letter Q). I was thinking about what mother culture communicates to us about child raising, how that could conflict with our own selfish desires for self-realization, and how the "acceptable" number of children a couple can have varies geographically...

Anyhow, when I get to my desk, what do I find in my inbox:


Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:07:59 -0700
Reply-to: Reply@ishmael.org
Subject: [ISHMAEL] Daniel Quinn's New Book
To: geoff@****.com
...
TALES OF ADAM, which many of you have been asking about, will be in bookstores November 1, 2005. It's a lovely book (and my favorite
), delightfully illustrated with woodcuts by Michael McCurdy. You can find out more about it and see excerpts on the Ishmael website
at: http://www.Ishmael.com/books/TalesOfAdam/


Weird coincidink.

If you believe the "lets-flee-to-Canada-to-escape-4-more-years-of-the-shrub" AP article that I've seen at various news sources there already "may" be one million Americans living in Canada.

Per the CIA Factbook, there are 32,507,874 people in Canada, so Americans "may" make up 3% of the population.

Where the heck are they? I sure didn't notice them while I was there. They must be a lot better at blending into the landscape than some Canadians are.

This nursery brought to you by:

• Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon (TRACK 2 ONLY)


• Crash Vegas - Stone (TRACK 6 ONLY)


• Roger Waters - Amused To Death


• 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time In Eden


• Linkin Park - Reanimation


• Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight


• Jesus Jones - Doubt


• Jesus Jones - Perverse


• Yes - 90125


• Tragically Hip - Live Between Us


• James Taylor - Baby James By The Bay

Yes, I'm one of those people who keep CD's around for the single song that I still like.