I’m not certain for whom or which I have the greatest distaste. Is it doctors, those pompous, arrogant, cocksure practitioners of what they call medicine? Or perhaps it’s the hospitals where, if you are in the emergency room with anything short of a heart attack or a body covered in blood, you are treated as [...]
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Doctors, hospitals, and me
Posted in Appointments, Hospitals, Laziness, People, Personal, Philosophy, Racism, Senior citizen, Stupidity, Surgery, Technology, Trust, Values, Volunteerism on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On becoming part of a whole
Posted in Accountability, Altruisim, America, Beauty, Crime, Diversity, Family, Giving thanks, Goal setting, God, History, Holidays, Honor, Human behavior, Integrity, Law & Justice, Life, Love, My Beloved Country, Opinions, People, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Racism, Religion, Senior citizen, Stupidity, Team building, Terrorism, Trust, Values, Vegetables on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, good, I have my own civil rights group. I never realized that. I think I’ll ask them to picket my doctor’s office. Ya see, at six-one, two-fifty, he calls me really obese. Now when I look at myself in a full-length mirror (ego does that to ya, ya know), I don’t think I compare [...]
Too old to change?
Posted in Addiction, Athletics, Growing old, Health care, Integrity, Life, Opinions, People, Personal, Philosophy, Symbolism, Trust on September 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Old people don’t like change. In my youth, and even up until my early seventies, I thought that was just another urban myth; a fallacy that one could disregard as being propagated by the very young. When computers first came into our workplace, nearly everyone was excited about this new technology and how it would [...]
The Gardener
Posted in Altruisim, America, Beauty, Flowers, Gardening, Giving thanks, Human behavior, Love, Opinions, People, Personal, Trust, Values, Vegetables on September 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
She came from out of the west…the gardener. She came East to take care of an old man; no reason; just came East…the gardener “Your backyard is a mess,” she told him, but he didn’t seem to mind, even when she told him that she was…the gardener. She was right, of course. The backyard hadn’t [...]
“That Ain’t Right!”
Posted in Accountability, Greed, Hate, Honor, Human behavior, Law & Justice, Life, My Beloved Country, Opinions, People, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Stupidity, Trust, Values on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“That ain’t right,” screams Mays Gilliam, a.k.a. Chris Rock, in the movie, Head of State. It’s a scream that every citizen should be screaming at the Congress of the United States Right now. On August 17th, “President Obama will soon announce a new jobs plan that is expected to include an extension of payroll tax [...]
Living to help
Posted in Human behavior, Integrity, Opinions, People, Personal, Philosophy, Trust, Values on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are so many bad things to write about that it’s easy to develop a “downer personality.” Wars and terrorism, tornadoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, drought, the behavior of our supposed governing bodies, and even crime at every level of government and law enforcement lead the evening news. And yet, there are also many wonderful things that [...]
Who really runs this country?
Posted in Greed, Honor, Human behavior, Integrity, Law & Justice, My Beloved Country, News, Opinions, Philanthropy, Politics, Trust, Values on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Colonel Gadhafi’s 42-year dictatorship appears about to crumble. John McCain (R – Arizona) and Phil Gramm (R – Texas) publicly congratulated France, Great Britain, and NATO, and omitted any reference to the part played by their own Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama. This just shows you have far we have come as a country. Congressmen from the [...]
The trouble with smoke and mirrors
Posted in Accountability, America, Education, Greed, Health care, Honor, Human behavior, Integrity, Law & Justice, My Beloved Country, Opinions, People, Politics, Trust on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a question for you, Americans: Do you really care if we have a balanced federal budget? Do you, personally, actually give a damn if our debt ceiling is over fourteen trillion dollars? Do you even know what all of this crap means to you personally? How many of you are actually involved in the [...]
A Republican’s tripe
Posted in Accountability, Honor, Integrity, My Beloved Country, Opinions, Politics, Stupidity, Trust on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It really irritates the daylights out of me when an opinion editor doesn’t declare the entire truth about his background while tearing one party or another from limb to limb. I, for example, make no bones about the fact that I am a supporter of Barack Obama. That does not mean that I am a [...]
What does “local” really mean?
Posted in News, Opinions, Technology, Television, Trust on August 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“If it happens west of the Mississippi,” you don’t hear about it. The speaker was Juli, my partner, and she is absolutely correct. Boston newscasters and even those who purport to be reporting on news of a wider sort rarely discuss news making events in other parts of our own country. Oh, sure, we see [...]
