AChildOfTheUniverse

Lazy blogging

I’m not much in the post writing mood currently, dealing with some layoffs at work as many people are right now, but my online newspaper reading continues undaunted and I found two articles that I really enjoyed and thought I’d share.

The first is about kids in a juvenile detention center in Rhode Island who are learning trades and restoring vintage diners in the process.

“The whole poetry behind it is that these are kids who have been pretty much cast away emotionally and criminally, getting a chance to restore beloved eateries that have been cast off from society, too,”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/us/14diner.html

The second is by Ben Stein, a brilliant, funny guy, entitled Lessons of Love, by Way of Economics. It’s just a light hearted article about love.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/business/13every.html?scp=1&sq=economics%20of%20love&st=cse