Gluten. It lurks like criminals out to do you harm. It invades like the flu virus, wasting your body and leaving it an empty hull. It’s like the 11-inch long ascaris roundworm parasites found in the digestive system of the recent North Korean soldier who defected under fire, or the hundreds of bullets his comrades…
It’s cold. It’s been colder, but it sure is cold now and bound to get even more so. As a rule, I like cold weather. While temperature is observable and recordable as a matter of fact, cold is relative. My Mississippi raising has conditioned me to use the word cold whenever the temperature drops below…
We have heard the word transparency a lot for the last near decade. We mostly hear it from government upper-echelon apparatchiks. They spend a lot of air time trying to assure us of their transparency and desire for more. Their transparency, they tell us, is a sign of their dedication to the good of the…
I touched on that the other day. I said, “Living is fraught with peril.” And so it is. Everything has risks. Every action has a reaction. Newton and his third law of motion says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Sometimes we get the planned reaction. Occasionally we get a…
After having had a good time at The Alabama Folk School, I returned home, more tired than I perhaps should have been. While I did not keep raucous hours at Camp McDowell, since I don’t keep raucous hours, I did not get much sleep. Sleep for me, is sometimes as elusive as Bigfoot. Have you…
I was elated to be asked by the great Herb Trotman to be a part of the volunteer staff of the Alabama Folk School held week before last a beautiful Camp McDowell in Nauvoo, Alabama. The Folk School has been going on for ten years now. The have instruction in music and arts and crafts.…
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…
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…
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…
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