Debbie and I made a trip to Houston on Sunday. I had an appointment at BATCC for my two month checkup for the Ruxolitinib clinical trial I am on. For a while we were making the trip every two weeks, but now, we have settled into two month, which is a lot better. Over the…
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. Andrew Jackson I have studied Andrew Jackson and his rise to political greatness, his strengths, his weaknesses, his thin-skinned…
I get lots of spam messages on this site, sometimes as many as 100 in one day. You never see them because they are swept away into a separate folder for me to delete. All of them are offering to help my posts go viral, and it will only cost me a few dollars. I…
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. Mark Twain Mark Twain had no peer. I have said that before, but it bears repeating. If I repeat that 231 times a day spread over seven different radio stations during drive time for a period of six weeks in a…
Watching so many old westerns on YouTube, Amazon, and my daughter’s NetFlix, I have begun to think and dream in Western Technicolor, or black and white, as the case may be. I watch the old westerns and nod off in sleep, soothed by bad writing, tired plots, worse acting, and the same back-lot scenery from…
That’s a purely rhetorical question. I really don’t want to know. Unfortunately, it is far more than rhetorical for others. For others, how I cast my vote is a defining factor on my worth as a human being. Me not caring how you voted, nor using your voting preference as a means to define, pigeonhole,…
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…
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