Good morning, Whitewater.
Saturday will bring clouds to Whitewater, with a high of twenty-eight. (We’ve a good chance of snow Saturday night and into Sunday.) Sunrise is 7:09 AM and sunset 7:07 PM, for 9h 57m 37s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 89.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
What would a pitbull-dachshund mix look like? It would look like Rami, a dog rescued and awaiting adoption at the Moultrie Colquitt County Humane Society:
On this day in 1990, a new establishment opens in the then-Soviet Union:
The Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s fast food restaurant opens in Moscow. Throngs of people line up to pay the equivalent of several days’ wages for Big Macs, shakes, and french fries.
The appearance of this notorious symbol of capitalism and the enthusiastic reception it received from the Russian people were signs that times were changing in the Soviet Union. An American journalist on the scene reported the customers seemed most amazed at the “simple sight of polite shop workers…in this nation of commercial boorishness.” A Soviet journalist had a more practical opinion, stating that the restaurant was “the expression of America’s rationalism and pragmatism toward food.” He also noted that the “contrast with our own unrealized pretensions is both sad and challenging.”
For the average Russian customer, however, visiting the restaurant was less a political statement than an opportunity to enjoy a small pleasure in a country still reeling from disastrous economic problems and internal political turmoil.