Turn About is Fair Play

Cool at 7 am: 50 degrees... yes, it looks like Fall is almost upon us.  I'm still getting tomatoes from my containers on the deck.  My zucchini crop never materialized.. I got only one fair sized zuke.  I did get a couple of fair sized yellow squash and one is growing right now.  Still.. not enough to warrant trying to grow them again.. .. any way, got to be in the 70's later in the day.


I went to my MSCHF Board Meeting.. always fun there.  We have 36 or 38 folks to induct this year. Surely there are  more  volunteers out there who are over 65 who would qualify.  We just have to spread the word better.


"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs.  He most lives
Who thinks most - feels the noblest - acts the best."


Festus.. Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)


01.  Turn about


Fast Company:  Baratunde Thurston writes about Big Earl's Bait House and Galley Café in Pittsburg, Texas.   A gay couple dined at the restaurant and on their way out , a waitress told them they were not welcome back because "we don't serve fags."


Rather than getting irate, the couple, together with hundreds of people on the Internet did something different.  They tried to turn Big Earl's roadside diner into the #1 gay hangout in Texas. 


(Big Earl had this sign posted on his front door:  "Welcome to Big Earl's where men act like men, women act like ladies.  No saggy pants.  We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. ")


Suddenly, Internet postings like the following appeared:  "...I think gay men would love this place because there are so many hot guys there."


Well.. we'll never know what the outcome was.. other than knowing that Big Earl did erase all of the comments that he could find. 


Like the posters in this situation, I think it is better to invest a little humor in our reactions to bigots.  Maybe it will shame at least somebody in the bigot's family to think a bit.  Why get mad at ignorance?
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Speaking of ignorance, I'm cutting this short because I have to get the TV programmed to tape more of the Roosevelt series of shows while watching who won America's Got Talent.. regardless of your thoughts about this show, the six finalists are extremely good performers.


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