Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) recently said he regrets the 2013 rules change in the Senate that does away with the 60 vote super-majority needed to approve Cabinet and court appointments, excluding the Supreme Court. I’ll bet he does. When then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was threatening the nuclear option in 2013, and…
Note: I started this on 12/27/16. The topic of fake news is still standing like a windmill under siege by Don Quixote. And-da-one-and-da-two . . . Fake News has become a hot topic, almost as if it had been cued up by the late Casey Kasem for an America’s Top 40 Countdown, all 40 songs…
That’s what I wanted: to write something profound. Profundity as a goal is elusive, though it can overtake us unawares from time to time, which is probably the best sort of profundity: the unplanned. We all have it from time to time, and we mostly lack it when we are setting out to be profound.…
I tried to take a nap, knowing that if I did it would be all the sleep I would get. I tried twice. No go! The first time I laid in the bed for about an hour. No luck. I got up. The second time, I slept for about 20 minutes and when I sprang…
Dr. Gooday, Nurse Alice, Nurse Sarah and crew at BATCC were all about like I expected them. BATCC seems to get along just fine, though I am not there every day to see its inefficiencies, nor the frustrations of its employees. I, on the other hand, am very familiar with my own frustrations, and today…
12/9/16 It’s a complicated world out there. Politics, economics, terrorism, globalism, hegemony, wars, pestilence, earthquakes, storms …so many things just waiting for a chance to manifest themselves to interfere with our lives. So many of those things are beyond our control, leaving used tossed on stormy seas, cast adrift in shallow draft lifeboats, bobbing around…
As a favorite holiday, Thanksgiving wins hands down! It even trumps Independence Day, which not only is the day we celebrate our independence as a nation, it is my birthday. Still, Thanksgiving wins. It’s hard to get too excited about anything in July in Mississippi, it being a sweltering oppression of humidity, and knowing that…
This past week had the Super Moon phenomenon. It was the closest the moon has been to the earth since 1948, nearly 20,000 miles closer than normal. I had super pains, too. I have definitely seen a correlation between the full moon and hyper-CLL symptoms, and the week leading up to the super moon and…
Tonight is the new moon. I was expecting maximum waned symptoms from the minimum visible moon. That has not happened. Now I am thinking that the symptoms still wax and wane on a lunar cycle, with maximum symptoms at the moon’s separate zeniths of full or new. I expect in a week, I’ll have a…
I have worked for eight straight days and am just about to be nothing more than a flash in the pan. Everything we start out to do that should be easy and quick turns into something akin to a quagmire of mud in which you bog down, making progress as if swimming in a pool…
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