4/14/15 Seduced By Righteous Eating

I had been seduced by righteous eating. Steven Bratman, MD It was purely by accident that I stumbled across Steven Bratman, a physician who practices alternative medicine. He has written books and done studies on what he describes as a mental condition known as ORTHOREXIA, or the perhaps unhealthy compulsion to eat healthy foods. Goodness…

3/25/15 Immuno-compromised

Yep. That’s me. I am immuno-compromised. But what does that mean? That means, so far, I have been extremely fortunate, though I have the misfortune of not ever being able to eat my favorite oysters on the half-shell. It is my part of the compromise of immuno-compromisation. I don’t eat the oysters, and they don’t…

3/18/15 To Infinity and Beyond

I borrowed the title from Buzz Lightyear. Thanks, Buzz. I’ve had my eye on infinity for a while, now. I think I might be gaining on it. We’re all actually gaining on it whether we know it or not, really. It’s a morbid thought, or it’s an expansive one, depending on what my frame of…

2/22/15 February Frigidity

I will complain a bit about the cold weather, if you don’t mind. I will complain a bit if you do. I want to complain about it and will not be deterred. If you are satisfied with the weather, then turn the page, or rather, in modern parlance, hit the back button. If you are…

2/14/15 Do You Believe in Science?

What a question! Yet, that seems to be a question that is being asked of many. It is the moment’s meme. Why would science need my belief? It begs the question. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who, by the way, did not finish college, much to the apparent concern of former DNC Chairman Howard Dean and…

2/11/15 Stuck in Writing Exile

I cannot seem to get anything written, not because of the lack of desire to write, or an absence or words, but because there’s simply nothing that needs to be said. After forcing myself to fore-go politics, though I am passionate about politics, I have lost my desire to write about it. I would prefer…

12/23/14 Superlatives from the Start

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. C.S. Lewis Superlatives have been on my mind a lot lately. No, not Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, as they actually fit the bill…

12/21/14 Micro-Agression

Plain old aggression is no longer enough. Now we have micro-aggression, or so I have learned. We are going to carry sensitivity to such heights we will soon be offending others by not being offended when they think we should. That would not be micro-aggression, but macro-aggression. I first heard of micro-aggression over the Harvard…