Christopher Allbritton has been in hotel lockdown and also working for Time Magazine. He takes issue with those who think that Time didn’t want the reporters out covering the stories, reminding us that Time wants to keep its journalists alive.
I remember seeing this type of range advertised was I was a young boy.
It’s a Whirlpool Connoisseur.
I can still see the images of a cheerful housewife dressed in her apron pulling something delicious out of the oven.
This one was in my house when I bought it. I have to get rid of it because I’m updating the kitchen.
I kind of hate to part with it because it still works so well. I love the upper oven and use it almost exclusively. It’s smaller and preheats quickly and I like not having to bend over to get stuff in and out of the big oven which I’ve probably only used once in two years.
They don’t even make stoves like this anymore.
I posted signs on a few bulletin boards in the hope I can sell it for a few bucks and get somebody to take it away. I think it’s sort of a classic and I hope somebody else realizes that four working burners and two working ovens is a lot of stove for $100.
If I can’t sell it, there’s an appliance store in Bremerton that will take it if I deliver it to them. They used to pick up used stoves for free but with gas costing so much they stopped doing it for the time being.
Could you have gotten through your day without knowing all that?
The New York Times [reg. required] ran an interview with Ron P. Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan.
Ron Jr. had some interesting things to say:
On the possibility of his running for elected office:
NYT: Now that the country is awash in Reagan nostalgia, some observers are predicting that you will enter politics. Would you like to be president of the United States?
Reagan: I would be unelectable. I’m an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won’t accept.
NYT: What would you do if Senator Kerry asked you to be his vice president?
Reagan: I would question his sanity.
About having children:
NYT: Do you and your wife, Doria, have children?
Reagan: No. We have three cats. It’s like having children, but there is no tuition involved.
I would also like to add that there’s no possibility of obedience.
I also enjoyed this insight:
NYT: How do you account for all the glowing obituaries of [President Reagan]?
Reagan: I think it was a relief for Americans to look at pictures of something besides men on leashes. If you are going to call yourself a Christian — and I don’t — then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog’s leash? How can Christians tolerate it?
It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight — it has put them in greater danger.
Very well said, Ron.
Jay McCarthy notes Kerry’s proposal to raise the minimum wage.
When I first heard that commercial on TV I was dumbfounded.
Washington State has the highest minimum wage in the country, more than $7.00/hour. It also has one of the highest unemployment rates.
What good is a minimum wage if you can’t get a job because it’s too expensive for an employer to hire you?
Those who have low-end minimum wage jobs will get a raise while those who lose their jobs or can’t get them, will make less. Their wages will drop to zero.
Zero.
Now that’s a minimum wage! Can’t get more minimum than that.
I guess that’s what John Kerry means when he talks about more people making a minimum wage.
He should be thinking about how to end government manipulation of the marketplace which inevitably forces large numbers of people to funnel portions of their money into the hands of a select few. The resulting disparity in income is what puts lower wage earners at a disadvantage. The lack of competition forces all people to pay more for goods and services, and the poor feel it the most.