Sandra Bland. How scared she must have been. How brave she was. The printout of her arrest show so clearly the ludicrousness, the complete and utter wrongness of her arrest, her death.

Meanwhile, in Sweden… one discussion is never ending. The decision of the Swedish Academy to officially remove the old, tasteless, needless word negerboll from the official Swedish dictionary is causing a minor uproar. The word was used to mean a Swedish pastry like chocolate desert/candy. It is a round, chocolatey tasty desert that is especially popular with kids. Of course its name must be changed. Naturally. Needless to say. One would presume any modern being would agree. But not so. Puny and insipid and self-centered, obnoxious, even in the face of reason, even in response to patient explanations.

Back in the USA. 204 days in 2015 have passed so far. 204 shootings have taken place. When will Americans see the light? President Obama is frustrated by his inability to attain (any sane level) gun control: “It is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.”

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This is what I think you should read from last week, so that you know what’s up, and what is definitely not.

Fear mongering is on the rise, again. GMOs why do people fear them so? Where is the scientific basis? And Organic farming, who says it is all good? It may be, it may not be, but please do not accept it blindly. Because, you know, kale is not all that. Neither are fish oil pills, but we already knew that, right?

On the subject of “health”, Cross Fit, ever heard of it? I hadn’t, but everyone else has apparently. I call it crazy, but maybe that’s just me? I take my exercise in the form of leisurely strolls and really do not get the yearning for bodily perfection.

I miss the west coast and San Francisco, but sometimes not. I  felt a small earthquake in 2008 whilst living in the Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. It was a surreal experience. I do not want to feel the real deal.

The diverse Internet, the Internet we must save?

In order to cut down on our kids screen time, we must cut down our own. Like that is going to happen. We are all to vested, and it is taking a toll on our kids, it really is.

If you have recently been rejected, don’t worry to much. Things can turn around.

I just bought Hanna Gadbans book, Min Jhad (My Jihad). It will be an interesting read. The book has already led to a pie throwing contest. What can we, and can we not say about Islam?

This has made the rounds over the years. Somehow I think many people didn’t really get it then, and they probably won’t now either. But for the rest of us, let’s shut down the computers and go play Yatzie with our kids! Yatzie is seriously underrated, btw, as is Backgammon, Uno, Memory….

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