First Go 'Round w/ a CSA

We're excited about our first summer doing Community Supported Agriculture. We linked up with Lindentree Farm out of Lincoln, MA. Their vegetables and fruit are all organic and the owners have been at it for 22 years.

With a CSA, you pay for a share at the beginning of the season. It works out to be about the same amount we'd be spending on fruits and vegetables for the summer, but with the added benefit of  knowing where our food is coming from. And they deliver our share to the rad folks at Clover in Inman Square--so we only have to walk a couple blocks to pick it up.

Fun orienation at the farm on Sunday:

Blondie with heavy machinery

Blondie with the chicks

God's Pulling for Obama

If this extraordinarily mild winter tells us anything, it's that God wants President Obama to win the 2012 election. Hyper-religious right-wingers continually point to natural disasters as being an indictment of America's moral decline. So this cheerful winter must have them really nervous: obviously it's a ringing endorsement for Obama from the Big Guy in the sky.

God's well aware of the number one issue for voters: the economy. Always has been and always will be. A mild winter inflates GDP, inspiring consumer and business confidence. Here's what Raymond James economist Scott J. Brown, Ph.D. had to say:

"...an unusually mild winter appears to have had a significant impact [on econonomic growth]...boosting motor vehicle sales, construction activity and employment."


Oddly, Brown doesn't mention God in his commentary. But he doesn't have to. We know who's really behind this blessed winter.

Before you dems pop the champagne, realize the election's still eight months away. There's still time for religious conservatives to pray extra hard and put pressure on God to drum up  some last-minute atmospheric mayhem. (Pat Robertson not included, of course, since God already told him that Obama would lose the election).

Hey, Executives: This Occupy Thing Ain't Over...

Winter's blustery chill may have sent those Wookie Occupiers into hibernation, but just as the dingy turnip lies dormant only to re-emerge bright and ripe in the spring, so to will this Crusade Against Greed.

Executives: will you reign in your compensation packages before it's too late?

No, of course not. If we believe that the powerful will admit to and change the errors of their ways, then we deceive ourselves. And experience has taught us that government can't solve this problem because politicians have become pawns of the elite.

Most people know what needs to be changed, even if they're unsure about how to get it done. Ultimately this means revolting, by all means necessary, against the perceived problem. Good luck this spring, kids!

Baaaahh....

The market's volatility reminds me of a recent post I made about the need to have a contrarian perspective. Please, I beg you, stop following the herd. It's a loser's mentality and will cost you a lot of money and stress. Now is the time to buy under-valued equities. If Warren Buffett and other insiders are doing it, I'd say it's solid move.

The more the market tanks, the more you should load up. It takes guts, but it's how you make money. Leave the sheep behind.

Chopping Trees and Winning Cups

Don't these Stanley Cup Finals feel like the script for Rocky IV?

The Ivan Drago Canucks are freakishly engineered (see H. Sedin's forehead) and capable of playing at a superhuman level.  Meanwhile, the Rocky Balboa Bruins use a spartan approach and sweat for any advantage.  Can’t you see Shawn Thorton leading his team’s training between games—chopping down trees and throwing logs.

The most obvious metaphor came in game 3, when Aaron Rome blindsided Nathan Horton with a vicious hit. Horton layed on the ice in La La Land, like Apollo on the mat. Aaron "Drago" Rome made it more infuriating by showing little remorse...saying he’d hit him the same way again. 

"If he dies, he dies."

Inspired to avenge Nathan "Apollo" Horton, the Bruins have been playing fearless hockey--finally landing a booming upper-cut in the second period of game 3. The Canucks were human and the B's started to believe they could win.

Game 7 will be in Vancouver tomorrow night. If the Bruins can deliver one more visceral performance, I can see the home crowd turning on their team and starting a “USA! USA! USA!” chant. As the final seconds wind down, the Canadian crowd will rush the ice and lift Tim Thomas, draped in an American flag, onto their shoulders. (Just don’t expect Timmy to deliver Rocky’s post-fight “mutual admiration” speech).   

The fantastical dream then cuts to our heroes taking a Duck Boat trip around Boston and ends with Brigitte Nielsen marrying Brad Marchand in The Common. 

Just Do It

"Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future."  Fulton Oursler


Dreams discredited and opportunities lost...procrastination kills. Look at any successful person and you'll find they never wait; they act. Right or wrong, it doesn't matter.

Just ask John Kerry; his knack for debating a decision to death cost him the 2004 presidential election to Bush. 

Bold deciders win elections, get things done, and get re-elected. Obama authorizing an unprecedented mission--covertly flying Navy SEALs into Pakistan and terminating America's Most Hated--will go a long way in his re-election campaign.

Tackling the largest problems reaps the biggest rewards. Be bold and unwavering. Many things in our world appear hopeless and unfixable. This is when deciders prosper. Successful or not, those who push for positive change gain respect.

Jump off your crucifix and do it now. Obey The Swoosh.

Obey...Eat Ice Cream (and Recycle)

I snapped this photo after a recent lunch in Cambridge, MA