Saturday coffee.
We walked out the door to a beautiful Autumn morning and the passenger window of Anne’s Honda was vandalized. There were little pieces of broken glass all over the sidewalk. The only thing messed with was the glove compartment, which had nothing in it to begin with.
We called the insurance company and they sent a guy over to replace it right away.
Then it was on with the morning. Coffee at Peets, some time over the paper, food shopping and a stop to go through what was left of Halloween candy for tomorrow. Slim pickings. So we grabbed a couple of bags of Mike and Ike and Hot Tamales and that will have to do.
Private school boys are bullies and they lie.
Charles Blow has a funny and not-so-funny piece in the NY Times this morning. He refers to a study on youth ethics which interviewed kids at private school and found that they were less tolerant of differences, more racist, more likely to bully, tease or taunt someone in the last year and beat somebody up than kids in public school. And they probably lied on the survey.
This all assumes that these children told the truth. As it turns out, private school students were also the most likely to lie. According to the study, they were the least likely to say that they had answered all the questions “with complete honesty.”
Bill Clinton’s solution for Haiti: Sweatshops.
From a NACLA report on economic conditions in Haiti:
Bill Clinton, UN Special Envoy to Haiti, has been equally optimistic about Haiti’s cheap labor prospects, especially since the passing of the Haitian Economic Lift Program (HELP) in May. The bill would increase the amount of Haitian assembled goods that could be imported into the United States duty free. “This important step,” Clinton said, “responds to the needs of the Haitian people for more tools to lift themselves from poverty, while standing to benefit U.S. consumers.”
Religious leaders stand by Hyatt workers. Why won’t our union?
