Free-for-All FRI: THU Edition

Countdown to Sister Bash

There are 57 days left until the Summer 2018 Sister Bash. 

Food for Thought

Omaha World Herald (5/8):  "After years of delays chain restaurants must post info. FDA calls menu labeling a 'meaningful, incremental step' in fighting obesity. Consumers can no longer plead ignorance when ordering that deep-dish pizza or triple-patty burger. That's because, beginning MON, federal rules require restaurant, grocery store & convenience store chains to post calorie counts for all standard items on their menus."  COMMENT:   The great experiment begins. Will consumers adjust their dining-out habits because of calorie counts that will now appear on menus? "I'll have an order of biscuits & gravy." "Sir, did you notice that a serving of biscuits & gravy contains 9,486 calories?" Oh, my, let me rethink my order. I'll have a serving of breakfast kale instead."

Criminal Minds

OWH (5/10):  "Zoo busted for taking bear on ice cream run A Canadian zoo has been fined for not letting wildlife authorities know it was taking a 1-year-old bear to a local Dairy Queen so it could get an ice cream cone." COMMENT:  I don't blame wildlife officials for being upset. Imagine an enraged polar bear going berserk when he finds out that walrus blizzards contain too many calories.

Mental Health MON:  Friday Edition

Norfolk Daily News (5/8):  "Hope in a cup. A Logan Square-area coffee bar (in Chicago) is rolling out a new form of coffee talk, one where the baristas double as mental health aides . . . The hope for the new shop is that it will draw in passers-by who simply want a cup of coffee or a pastry but also those who want to have a conversation about a troubling time or even a planned suicide attempt, Hope for the Day founder Jonny Boucher said."  COMMENT:  Because I want mental health counseling from a barista.

L.O.L. Educator *

* Loony Old Lutheran

NDN (5/8):  "End of tradition. The final group of Wake County (NC) high school valedictorians are taking their bows this spring, two years after the school district ignited a national uproar by agreeing to phase out that longstanding academic tradition. The last group of 25 valedictorians competing under those old rules were recognized at a recent Wake school board mtg." COMMENT:  A Wake County School Board representative told a member of the LCBL ** Research Team, "You can't hardly have 25 valedictory speeches at graduation, can you?"
** Leckband Cornhusker Blog Lite

Thought for Today

WHEN WE GROW WEARY

“And let us not grow weary of doing good.” Gal. 6:9

“When love alone is not enough to sustain, seeing what we do as something we are doing for Jesus gives us the strength to keep going.”  At the Crossroads: Devotions for Lent, by David Kehret, Creative Communications for the Parish, 2016.