Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

I wonder if this ever helped anyone to quit?





Aldous Huxley, "Island", 1962 utopian manifesto and novel.


The Control Panel Archive: The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials...


There is no way that sign would of stopped my brother.

Control Panel archive of over 2700 photos.


"Over the next decade, more than $60 billion in taxpayer dollars are expected to pay for soda alone. Soft drinks are the most popular item purchased with food stamps according to the Department of Agriculture."


Food stamps shouldn't pay for soda and candy

I can't count the number of times I been in line at grocery stores and someone with a cart load of junk food & cases of soda with 3, 4, 5 kids, paying with food stamps. The 2008 farm bill renamed the Food Stamp Program to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (beginning October 2008) and replaced all references to "stamp" or "coupon" in federal law with "card" or "EBT".

Pilot Food Stamp Program - May 29, 1961-1964
The Food Stamp Act of 1964 prohibited the purchase of soft drinks, luxury foods, and luxury frozen foods. (I'm not sure what defines "luxury")


A Short History of SNAP



FOODS TYPICALLY PURCHASED BY SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (SNAP) HOUSEHOLDS (PDF; Nutrition Assistance Program Report, Nov 2016)


In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal government program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income persons to help them maintain adequate nutrition and health. It is a federal aid program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), though benefits are distributed by specific departments of U.S. states (e.g., the Division of Social Services, the Department of Health and Human Services, etc.).

Still waiting on nature to weed out the stupid folks.



Space candy...



Here's his link.


Weekend words...

March is known as the windy month and according to the weather boys it is the windiest month of the year with frequent, but random blastbob's that seemingly come out of nowhere and give you an arctic chill.


Qudinunc does however have an interesting etymology, literally meaning "what now" in Latin, though with time a quidnunc has come to now describe someone who is always aware of and interested in gossip. Also, busybody billionaires.

I doubt if the same Latin pedigree in translation influenced the tantalizingly close and fairly ubiquitous greeting in the Southern United States of "do what now". Entirely confusing to anyone who stumbles upon the phrase while moving to or simply visiting states like Alabama, Arkansas or Texas, "do what now" is neither a grammatical aberration nor the badly formed question that it sounds like. Instead it is a homegrown expression that combines the sentiment of "excuse me" or “pardon me” with the geniality of an aw-shucks demeanor, not unlike the unpretentious warm hospitality and charm of the "deep south".


Computers. Me, back in the day. LOL