May 17, 2013
11:26 a.m.
Another appalling example of children being exploited for the delight of the masses. This genre is amongst the sickest public spectacles afloat today: In a full stadium, a child is surprised by the appearance of his or her father (haven't seen a mother ye...
May 14, 2013
5:35 p.m.
Andrew Sullivan does not identify the readers who write in to his blog, but I will claim the first letter in this post as mine.
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May 13, 2013
11:25 a.m.
This book and the accompanying television program are sure to be controversial. However, the author is spot on in his assertion that the eventual solution to Alzheimer's disease is likely not going to be a pill, but a drastic change in lifestyle and ...
May 9, 2013
12:01 a.m.
Please read this article about the experience of a woman with dark skin at the White House Press Correspondent's dinner. I hear people so often say there is no bigotry any more, that it is all in people's imagination. The assertion is so insanely false--j...
May 8, 2013
12:01 a.m.
In apparent response to brother Joe's recent article advocating the decriminalization of marijuana, our fellow greenhouse north of town moved in for the kill!
They do have a nice place, well worth the stop.
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May 3, 2013
12:01 a.m.
Went in to see how Aunt Olive was doing today and she was in fine form. In fact, her pain didn't even come up until I offered to get her heat pack re-heated. After wanting nothing more than to die two days ago, Olive's focus was once again on the ...
May 3, 2013
5:26 a.m.
Here is the first song by George Jones that I liked back in high school. Boy, then you had to hide the fact that you liked country music! Now you don't. This is a minor hit, but to me it is George at his best.
And then George's prediction about his...
May 1, 2013
12:01 a.m.
And here is a sample of his excellence with the blues. People don't realize what a great guitar player he is. Here he is, doing another song he wrote (on the same car trip back in the early 1960s) with the equally great BB King.
I would be remiss i...
May 1, 2013
12:01 a.m.
Aunt Olive was suffering again today. Mightily. I went in and discovered she was only getting one Tylenol every four hours. Silly. She was in excruciating pain, and she is not a complainer. The staff was doing all they could, but the doctors had not gotte...
April 30, 2013
12:01 a.m.
So much has happened to the climate in the past few days. Yesterday, I went for a run on the railbed. Only last week, it was under drifts. I think it was last Friday that the ditches broke loose. The swamp in front of the house gathered a lot of water, bu...
