Thank goodness for cold, dreary, rainy days. I have been awake since midnight last night, and a rather bellicose case of Restless Legs Syndrome make it likely that I will not sleep again tonight. Someone recently said that if I had a clear conscience I would sleep better. I laughed out loud at that…
Fifty years ago today saw the passing of not only JFK, but the remarkable C.S. Lewis. And Aldous Huxley. A bad day in the affairs of men. C.S. Lewis was one of the most powerful Christian thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. He resisted the zeitgeist in order to lay his claim to his…
11/22/13 JFK and Fifty Years I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. “Someone killed the President,” someone said. I don’t remember who. I was standing on the sidewalk in front of Mrs. Gamble’s first grade class at Gautier Elementary School in Gautier, Mississippi. We were just coming back from afternoon recess.…
In an effort to limit costs, as any insurer is wont to do, Magnolia Health Plan in Mississippi has signed up all the Medicaid healthcare providers, and not one single provider more. Among the president’s many claims that are not panning out, his claim, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” is…
First things first. My “Music” computer is down. It must make a trip to the computer guru for some attention. I need to get a new one, or transfer everything over to the computer I use for video editing. My Music computer still runs Windows XP. Protools 8 requires XP and will not run on…
Because of the Methotrexate and swollen, painful lymph nodes, I sent a communication to Hemosapien. He called me, and asked me if I could come in that same day, 11/14/13, rather than wait until next week. I agreed and trotted down to his office, having the CBC and CMP done, which was ready when I…
There’s lots in the news about Obamacare. Not much of it is very good, though there have been some successes. There have been some enrollment figures released by HHS. It seems that 100,000 plus people have enrolled nationwide, which includes figures from the state exchanges, and about 27,000 have enrolled on the federal…
That there are plagiarists in Washington is not new, nor is it news unless the plagiarists are from political camps one opposes. Bill Clinton is an alleged plagiarizer. George W. Bush (43) is an alleged plagiarizer. Hillary Clinton was accused of plagiarizing Bill Clinton (of all things!). Joe Biden was accused of it (OK…he admitted…
Having discovered Google Books and Open Library where out of copyright books are free for download, I seldom buy a new book these days. But Charles Krauthammer’s Things That Matter caught my attention. I downloaded the ebook version from Books-a-Milllion since I gave up on Amazon because I’ve never had an order there be fulfilled…
They used to chew tobacco on the baseball field. Now tobacco is taboo. Too bad. For the first time since childhood, I did not see a single Major League playoff or World Series game. Today the sadness of that strikes me. I seem to have lost interest in the national pastime. I am even sadder…
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