{"id":2672,"date":"2008-02-13T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2008-02-13T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T15:57:00","slug":"observations-on-the-news-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Observations on the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This seems to be a week for observations on the news. As that seems to be what the universe wants, I\u2019ll continue with my quest to find you the most interesting tidbits. I noted the following while waiting for my tea to cool:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>From the <b>\u201cLet\u2019s Go Out To Dinner\u201d<\/b> Department:<\/i> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/13\/dining\/13incompatible.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times has an article today<\/a> about yet another factor that creates tensions in a couple: dietary differences. Their lead example was a couple that broke up because he loved bread, and she was gluten-free. Of course, I\u2019ve been in that particular situation for years, as my wife and daughter are both gluten-free, and I\u2019m the sole wheat eater in the house. But the article also discusses vegetarians living with meat-eaters, etc., and emphasizes couples that break up over it. Now, I know many couples where there are vast dietary differences, and some how they work it out. I wonder if it is just the single generation they interviewed in New York is just less flexible?\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>It\u2019s a hard job, but someone\u2019s got to do it<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> The New York Times also has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/13\/arts\/television\/13deal.html\" target=\"_blank\">an article on a job you might not though of as hard<\/a>: Being one of those ladies that hold the cases on \u201cDeal or No Deal\u201d. It\u2019s actually an interesting article: some are lawyers and interpreters. Of course, more interesting is the fact that this simple program has not given away the $1M prize in over 2.5 years of trying. I wonder what that says about human psychology, and choosing what you know you have over what you might have.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>No, I didn\u2019t snub you<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> I\u2019m surprised this hasn\u2019t gotten more press, given how much Hillary\u2019s camp made of Obama\u2019s supposed snub at the State of the Union, where he supposedly turned away from shaking her hand to talk to Claire McCaskell. <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/12\/clinton-still-no-congratulations-for-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN is reporting<\/a> that Hillary is failing to acknowledge or congratulate Obama on his recent primary wins, even has Obama has congratulated or at least acknowledged her on her increasingly few wins. The courtesy of conceding a primary or caucus loss \u2014 and then congratulating your opponent \u2014 is by no means required. But it has become standard practice during campaign season.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Life in the Sculpture Garden<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i>  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-statue13feb13,0,4381660.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times is reporting that<\/a> thieves have stolen a bronze statue  of a miner from its perch near Carthay Circle (Crescent Hts and San Vicente). Presumably, it was stolen as part of the larger theft of copper &#8212; statues are increasingly being stolen, chopped up, and melted down for their metal value (even though they are worth more as art). And that, my friends, is the state of the art.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>It\u2019s Not Alive!<\/b>\u201d Department<\/i>: And just for <a href=\"http:\/\/underpope.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">underpope<\/a>: The SF Chronicle has an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-statue13feb13,0,4381660.story\" target=\"_blank\">how to survive a zombie attack<\/a>.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems to be a week for observations on the news. As that seems to be what the universe wants, I\u2019ll continue with my quest to find you the most interesting tidbits. I noted the following while waiting for my tea to cool: From the \u201cLet\u2019s Go Out To Dinner\u201d Department: The New York Times <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2672\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}