Debbie and I made our trip to BATCC for my annual checkup last weekend. We stopped in Baton Rouge and spent the night with our life-long friends, George and Myra, enjoyed a wonderful evening of conversation, good food, music, met some new musician friends, and had a special treat when George and Myra’s son, Casey,…

It looks like Obamacare is on the way to a dismantling by HHS directive, Congressional limitation, State refusal to participate in exchanges and Medicaid expansions, and will likely suffer a lingering death, or most likely, dis-corporate itself after an apparent suicide. What will replace it will likely be worse, not better. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius…

Not to be alarmist, or to worry myself unnecessarily, but for the first time since my first round of chemotherapy at BATCC in August 2009, my white blood cell count is slightly out of bounds on the high side. There’s many things that could cause this, none of them related to CLL. They are running…

Disgraced former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer gets a talk show. Disgraced former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford wins the GOP nomination to run for the Senate. Disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner has almost five million dollars in his political campaign chest to make a run for the New York Mayor’s office. Hmmmm!…

In the recent election, we seemed to have been overtaken in an outbreak of nastiness in Presidential politics, and towards the Presidential candidates in general. Depending on our party affiliation and the candidate we support, or if the President has our favor or disfavor, we either go too far, or we criticize others for doing…

Ordinary doesn’t make for good ratings, and all news outlets want good ratings. Ratings are how they charge advertisers for their services. Even our public broadcasters are not above caring about their ratings, and everyone knows that their news reaches the choirs in their own lofts . . . it’s the others they would like…

What is going on over in Korea? And why? The still wet-behind-the-ears North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and the United States seem to be purposefully escalating themselves on the way to an incident of some sort. What motivates this behavior? Is it similar to two turkey gobblers (it is turkey season here in Mississippi)…

For all you folks who rely on the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and things such as Angie’s List, or reviews from purchasers of products from internet businesses, you are being prudent using due diligence before you make a decision on how to spend your money. But, due diligence doesn’t stop with checking with the BBB…

Our modern problems seem so complex to us. There’s lots of problems. Everyone has them. They’ve had then for as long as gravity, physics, biology, nature, governments, anarchy, and people have been able to complicate the lives of men . . . that’s been as long as men have been around. Take the problems with…

This is lesson number 20,001 of English as a Second Language. Congratulations on your great achievement at having made it this far. Now that you have mastered the first 20,000 lessons, you are ready to begin to start dealing with some of the subtleties that make English so expressive. This lesson will deal with subtle,…