Ave Maria is a town in Florida being built by Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino’s Pizza and devout Catholic. Features include lower-than-median home prices, walkable streets, and (if Tom has his way) no contraceptives for sale anywhere.
I immediately thought of Karen and Deana when I read the article. Sounds like a fascinating place to study.
As it says on the website: Because when you put strangers, caffeine and ideas in the same room, brilliant things can happen. For that very reason, the British Parliament banned coffeehouses in the 1700s as hotbeds of sedition. Might we brew up a similar social liveliness now? With democracy, critical thinking and “the ties that bind” all under siege, this may be the most radical cup of coffee you ever drink.
How can one top a side-splitting satire of the pharmaceutical industry titled “Friday Pie-Blogging: Tuesday Is For Your Own Good Edition“?
With a dose of 24-hour time-released ice cream, of course.
From an email today:
“ IN AND THROUGH COMMUNITY LIES THE SALVATION OF THE WORLF”
(attributed to M. Scottt Peck in the email)
It’s not Chariots of Fire, but still.
The Spit is Exhausted.
It has performed its tast admirably, and I will return to it again and again. But not for this project! For I have finished! I have… SOCKS!
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