It wasn’t much, really. Just a few fireworks and champagne glasses with champagne for the grownups and cola for the girls and a clock set forward two hours so that it read midnight for the doubly-excited Livi and Maggie. I’m not sure if Maggie even understands the concept of the new year, but she understood…
I have written before on the inefficiency of the check-in process at my local hospital for a CT scan or even a simple x-ray. Hemosapien had scheduled one for me for yesterday to have a look at these swollen lymph nodes. Since my blood numbers all looked good, and they didn’t seem nearly as swollen…
The joyful spirit of Christmas is over today. I can get back to my normal, petulant, shallow self. Maybe not. I hope not. I best not. Everything we write can’t be profound. Everything can’t be thrilling. Everything can’t be brimming with inspiration. That’s too bad. It would be much easier if it were, much easier…
The President has worked hard to sell the ACA to folks that don’t want it, particularly those who aren’t really interested in paying higher than actuarial prices for insurance they don’t particularly need to underwrite those who do. This wealth transfer system is not very attractive. But the President has worked so hard to sell…
In an effort to undo all the damage of cancelled policies the administration “strongly encouraged” insurers to comply with requests that these substandard insurance policies be reinstated. Many of those “bad-apple” insurers having spent much time and money to comply with the ACA, which is, as we have been reminded so many times, “the law…
It’s been a while since we had a good thunderstorm here, though we seldom suffer for a lack of them. We’ve had some heavy, heavy rains, just no thunderstorm. Last weekend it rained nearly five inches with only the faintest, occasional rumble of thunder…nothing worth dragging the camera out for. As many of you are…
I have a banjo-playing attorney friend who said this: Apparently some conservatives are howling “what about the First Amendment?!?” because this bearded guy from “Duck Dynasty” spoke his mind in GQ about gays, race, etc and got suspended indefinitely as a result. The First Amendment is about GOVERNMENT curtailing speech, not private TV networks. Free…
Man, oh man am I on a tear. Today, or yesterday it is or was now, I suppose, everything seemed to be rubbing me the wrong way, and I was thwarted at every turn. While it seems like everything went wrong, there were some that went right. After ranting and raving for most of the…
All you can do with elecrtricity, really, is make it stop and go, but that is deceptively simple. From massive concrete and steel containment vessels surging with the energy of fissile materials splitting their atoms in a controlled manner, from turbines spun by gravity’s force upon water held back by dams that are marvels of…
Have you ever tried to write about nothing? I do it all the time. Some might think this is dangerous, but the level of danger is proportional with the number of people likely to read it. I am not in much danger, after all. I had a good story to write, but it will have…
Mississippi Chris Sharp CLL Blog 