Large bookstores and retailers tend to stock what appeals to the masses (mass marketing) and therefore get the most returns on the investment. This is a not so great thing for any interests that aren’t of mass appeal. If you draw what the sales look like as a wave, the swell is where bookstores look. They ignore the bits after the swell, the bits that look like a long tail.

In a recent political debate (in the US) (it's about a third of the way through the utube video), one of the candidates running for president was asked what he’d do about black on black crime. He said (I’m paraphrasing it) he’d promote marriage, because having both parents around will give children a more stable beginning.

My first thought was, "Are you kidding me?"

Our local (stupid) television news station did a piece about our (and I mean in our actual neighborhood) local coyote residents. Apparently, teachers at a school were having the kids come in from the playground anytime one was spotted. Now, the city has caught one, removing it from its pack, and probably releasing it somewhere far away but suitable (we have a nice city for the most part).

I’ve been eating green onions lately. I use the stalk like chives, cutting up the green stalks for food and I’m left about an inch of yellow-green stalk above the white bulb and roots. Compost right? But wait! I thought, why not soak the roots and plant the sucker? Maybe it’ll grow, maybe not.