Someone has apparently been leaving pipe bombs in random parks around Livermore. I can’t help but be amazed when the local news interviews people in Livermore and they say things like “I can’t believe this would happen here, it’s such a quiet peaceful community!”
Uh, Livermore? As in the home of Lawrence Livermore National Labs? The cornerstone of the US nuclear weapons program since 1952? Does anyone else see this as slightly ironic?
A couple of weeks ago, I was in New Jersey and learned that the words of my brother-in-law, Rob Waldron, had been featured on a Starbucks coffee cup as #105 in their series of “words of wisdom” on coffee cups:
According to the Federal Reserve Bank, $1 spent on excellent preschool education saves $7 in special education, social service and future incarceraton costs more than a dozen years later. Are we, as citizens, willing to elect government leaders who spent our taxes on something that offers a return so far in the future? I hope so.
–Rob Waldron
President and CEO of Jumpstart, a national nonprofit early education organization.
Neat!