Sunday, April 27, 2008

Random Notes On The Crisis

I was talking to a Costco manager who told me that sales of most items are flat, but liquor sales are brisk.

The New York Times reports on a phenomenon that I have heard of locally -- that bees are finding homes in abandoned houses. Perhaps we have found a solution to the beat collapse. I should mention that one sentence suggests that many of the bees may be Africanized. If so, those bees may not be as welcome, because they would be illegal aliens from an undesirable continent. To make matters worse, people seem to be mixing these African bees with an American Queen and then releasing them on unsuspecting plants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20bees.html?_r=2&oref=login&oref=slogin

6 comments:

Shag from Brookline said...

Should we adopt a one smidgeon of pollen rule in categorizing the offspring of African-American bees and the honey they produce?

Sandwichman said...

Crisis? What crisis?

Daro said...

3 things went up in the Great Depression. Alcohol consumption, Gambling and Newspaper sales. The internet has taken care of two of those, leaving...

Michael Perelman said...

Also, movies. Escapism seems to be a common theme.

Daro said...

Yeah, Movies. Missed that one. Obvious when you mention it... "It's a Wonderful Life", "The Grapes of Wrath", etc.

Considering a comment I read recently: "Name a movie in the last 20 years you'd consider a classic", maybe this oncoming recession/ depression will prompt the creation of a few evergreen Greats!

degustibus said...

a classic: Lars & the Real Girl; Eagle vs Shark....