I had occasion to be at the Zoo today and after watching about a dozen school groups wander by in the late-Spring sunlight I was forced to wonder: why is it that girls’ private school uniforms always suck?<\/p>\n
Inevitably the boys are wearing some version of white shirt (dress or golf) with navy blue or black pants over black shoes. The girls, on the other hand, are usually wearing the same god-awful polyester jumper<\/a> in some fake plaid that’s never seen the inside of a Scottish clan meeting and a blouse with the Peter Pan collar<\/a>. What’s wrong with white shirt and blue pants for everyone?<\/p>\n And a couple of other random questions from yesterday…<\/p>\n The city’s leadership, in their infinite wisdom, decided about two years ago that street light banners, the kind that are stretched between two short polls that have been attached high on a light pole, were just the thing to perk up neighborhoods that never get street sweeping, don’t have enough police patrols, and really, really need some attention from DPW<\/acronym>‘s paving crews. <\/p>\n I’m not sure how but someone managed to get a banner up there that reads “God loves you.” Yesterday it was hanging upside down, the top sort of ragged and flapping, detached from the upper pole. Now, white knowledge1<\/sup> tells us that a flag hanging upside down from its intended position is a sign of distress. So, does this mean that God doesn’t love us?<\/p>\n