Lots of stuff on my mind lately, much of which has made it into my personal journal, but not the online version. My personal journal is cool. It’s in Filemaker, as is so much of the rest of my life. Filemaker makes me happy. OS X-native Filemaker makes me even happier…
Poor Rainbow Grocery. They’re losing customers left and right over the decision by several departments (everything there is, after all, a collective) to boycott Israeli products. While recognizing that there is, ummm, room for improvement on all sides in the Middle East, they wanted to show their support for the “most oppressed” group. And it apparently hurts them deeply that so many people are so upset about their decision…
Not me. I don’t shop there in the first place…
This letter to the editor says it all:
What a great idea for certain departments of Rainbow Grocery to make up shoppers’ minds for us and exile Israeli-made products to the wilderness. Surely their logical next step will be to banish matrioshkas and black caviar, to demonstrate our pique at Russia’s war in Chechnya. Of course, if they do that they would also need to expel their Jasmine tea and bamboo shoots to protest China’s repression in Tibet. But why stop there?
Lest they send the mistaken impression that they support India’s actions in Kashmir, the store’s nan and curry should be cast out. And they should have no problem evicting Egyptian hummus and babaganoush to show their solidarity with Cairo’s imprisoned gays and lesbians. Don’t forget a boycott of U.S. goods while they’re at it, because that would break the back of American-Zionist imperialism and bring about the second coming of Che Guevara.
After Rainbow Grocery is through, it will be the most morally pure shop in the world, offering items exclusively from Norway, Sweden and Iceland. Bon appetit!
Speaking of people who don’t quite understand that free speech is not without price or consequence, how about this group of Petaluma high school students who were told in advance that they’d be suspended for participating in a walk-out? Imagine their surprise when, after participating, they were suspended? Who saw that coming? It was, like, so totally unfair. Really. Uh huh…
OK, so living in San Francisco is making me more and more bitter and reactionary by the day. You should have seen me this afternoon when I got home from work and found myself spending 45 minutes looking for a parking space…