So, you were forced by unfortunate circumstances to stay at home and care for an aging parent with Alzheimer’s, or a spouse who had suffered a stroke, or a child born with Cerebral Palsy or disabled in a tragic accident. You have made great sacrifices to spend your time caring for a loved one in…
President Obama can’t catch a break, and everyone can use a break from time to time. He is being criticized for some sinister plan he is harboring because he has announced the sending 3,000 American military personnel to assist CDC efforts in Liberia to help stem the growing danger of the Ebola (EHV) virus. The…
Remember this? “If you like your health care plan you can keep it, period. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, period.” This was said over and over again during the 2012 election cycle. The President was perfectly clear. He made it a point to be perfectly clear. He continually reminded us…
This month is the 6th anniversary of the unknown infection that put me in the hospital for a week. Mainmost (one of my long-time physicians) failed to find any specific thing wrong, but after a week of non-stop testing and IV antibiotics, I improved enough for them to let me go home, having had, they…
Friends come and go, but enemies tend to accumulate. Unknown The above saying could have easily been uttered by any number of kingly advisers, perhaps even the great Talleyrand himself, but certainly it came from the realm of political science, where one collects enemies like a philatelist collects postage stamps. Enemies are far less benign…
Now that CD sales are as lost as a certain Dutchman’s mines, streaming audio is in the process of killing music downloads, and travel expenses are relentless, the NFL has the gall to ask the top-shelf acts they are considering for the half-time show at this year’s Super Bowl to pay them for the honor…
Nine days ago I didn’t even know there was a Ferguson, Missouri. Not knowing that, I certainly didn’t know that it is a suburb of St. Louis. Come to think of it, there are a lot of things I don’t know, and I have plenty of company. I am pretty certain that a police officer…
The troubles in the Middle East seem to be having an exponential multiplication. This is not a new development, since this birthplace of nations and empires built upon the ruins of empires has caused itself troubles for millennia. A review of the the history of the Middle East is to study a stream of empires…Akkadian,…
Ones reputation is like a shadow. It is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows…Charles Maurice de Talleyrand I quote Talleyrand often. He was a cold-hearted, fish-blooded, disloyal, yet indispensable French Foreign Minister who single-handedly invented modern diplomacy in the service of French monarchs, emperors, and republics. None of…
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