Yostivanich

Eas­ily dis­tracted bosses.

“We know the hol­i­day sea­son seems to come ear­lier every year (sorry, Hal­loween), but before you make your final travel plans, we’re excited to let you know that we’re part­ner­ing with Vir­gin Amer­ica to pro­vide free WiFi on every Vir­gin Amer­ica flight between Novem­ber 10, 2009 and Jan­u­ary 15, 2010.” Wish I was fly­ing Vir­gin Amer­ica this hol­i­day season.

“Across the nation, an anti­garbage strat­egy known as “zero waste” is mov­ing from the fringes to the main­stream, tak­ing hold in school cafe­te­rias, national parks, restau­rants, sta­di­ums and cor­po­ra­tions. The move­ment is sim­ple in con­cept if not always in exe­cu­tion: Pro­duce less waste. Shun poly­styrene foam con­tain­ers or any other pack­ag­ing that is not biodegrad­able. Recy­cle or com­post what­ever you can. Though born of ide­al­ism, the zero-waste phi­los­o­phy is now pro­pelled by sober­ing real­i­ties, like the grow­ing dif­fi­culty of secur­ing per­mits for new land­fills and an aware­ness that organic decay in land­fills releases methane that helps warm the earth’s atmos­phere.” Very cool.

“Stur­gis also is gay and feels more com­fort­able in boys’ clothes, her mother says. So Rodriguez sup­ported her daughter’s deci­sion to wear a tuxedo, rather than the drape cus­tom­ary for girls, when she had her senior por­trait made in July. Now she is bat­tling offi­cials at Wes­son Atten­dance Cen­ter in the Copiah County (Miss.) School Dis­trict. Rodriguez said she received a let­ter from the school in August stat­ing that only boys could wear tuxe­dos and have since refused to include the photo in the school year­book.” It seems that a story like this comes up every year.