RHODA: The one we probably are.
MARY: The one we want to be.
PHYLLIS: The one we’re afraid we’re going to become.
EARLY VOTING BEGINS TODAY IN DISTRICT
A Special Election will be held on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 to fill a vacancy for an At-Large Member of the Council of the District of Columbia, and to vote on Charter Amendment VIII (local budget autonomy). Poll hours: 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The One Judiciary Square site is the only location open for early voting: today through Saturday, April 20 from 8:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. (Closed on Sunday, April 14 and Tuesday, April 16.) The deadline for requesting an absentee ballot is Wednesday, April 17.
JUST 4 ME?
- Club Card
I’ve had a Safeway Club Card for practically as long I’ve been shopping at Safeway–which I do primarily because it is the only grocery store in the neighborhood. It is not, however, my card: the card belongs to Safeway Inc.The Club Card provides me with savings on certain items. The price I pay is that every purchase I make goes into a database, and I reckon Safeway Inc. will sell that information to anyone if the price is right (and provide it to the National Security Agency for free).
Several months ago, Safeway rolled out a digital coupon program called “just for u.” For some time, I resisted signing on, despite the claim of extra savings. I theorized that there was something other than benign in having to visit the Safeway Inc. Web-site to download the digital coupons onto the Club Card. Maybe it was a way to get me to buy more food or spend more money (or both). Maybe it was a way to put products in front of my eyeballs–something the food companies would pay for.
In any case, I just relented and joined the “just for u” program. I need laundry detergent, and the digital coupon knocks an extra dollar off the Club Card price.
I suppose one could say that the Tide has turned.
