Day 230: The Power of Salad

 

August 18th, 2011It’s storytime kids, and today I will share you a valuable life lesson if you pay close enough attention. After going to work at EHS in the morning *(and sending a vast multitude of many emails at price center for that work purposes), it’s always good to get a snack at BK before you go home. It’s also good that when you finally go home to actually eat a decent meal – frozen pizza (which in this case wasn’t very decent). Watching Arthur and playing the Sims allows your stomach to fathom those acids in your body for long periods of time. But unless your stomach feels like it’s content with all the things bubbling deep inside, you should probably eat vegetables every once in a while just in case. With Alexis, Brittney, Leah, and Megan picking me up, we all proceeded to Souplantation, where we used two cheap, yet powerful coupons. We ate our meals subsequently while catching up *(salad as pictured), deliciously attacking the salads with our mouth. Do I feel healthier as a subsequent result? I guess. It gave me the ability to sit through two terrible episodes of Code Geass (seen with Rosario and Lauren). That show has more plotholes than a sinking ship. Anyway, the moral of the day: eat your vegetables, and if that doesn’t satisfy you, go to Phil’s (which I will do so tomorrow).

On this day in 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest during a coup by high-ranking members of his own government, military and police forces. Since becoming secretary of the Communist Party in 1985 and president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1988, Gorbachev had pursued comprehensive reforms of the Soviet system. Combining perestroika (“restructuring”) of the economy–including a greater emphasis on free-market policies–and glasnost (“openness”) in diplomacy, he greatly improved Soviet relations with Western democracies, particularly the United States. Meanwhile, though, within the USSR, Gorbachev faced powerful critics, including conservative, hard-line politicians and military officials who thought he was driving the Soviet Union toward its downfall and making it a second-rate power. On the other side were even more radical reformers–particularly Boris Yeltsin, president of the most powerful socialist republic, Russia–who complained that Gorbachev was just not working fast enough. MUAHAHAHAHA.

While other candidates are dominating headlines in the Republican presidential campaign, Ron Paul is quietly commanding a campaign that’s showing a level of maturity in fundraising and performance that was lacking four years ago. The 12-term congressman from Texas has raised nearly double the amount of campaign cash he had at this point in 2007, and in his second-place showing in the Ames, Iowa, straw poll, he garnered nearly four times the support he had last time, falling just shy of knocking off Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota in her own backyard. FOR OUR COUNTRY TO SURVIVE, HE MUST WIN.

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