A Man of Many Talents
So ‘Joe’ has a new gig as a journalist, covering the conflict in the Mideast. He starts out by saying in an interview that he doesn’t think the press should cover wars, because regular people would find out what’s going on.
Moveon.org Training in Cranston
We had aMoveon.org advocacy training today, held at Church of the Ascension. We used training materials from Wellstone Action to strategize best ways to do congressional advocacy. President-Elect Obama will need support as he tries to make real reforms in Washington, so it’s up to us to be the driving force behind change. It was [...]
The Lowdown on the Governor’s Budget
Being in the middle of starting my own private practice office here in Cranston, I have not had much time lately to devote to blogging. Therefore, I am honored to have a guest blog post on Governor Carcieri’s budget from Carville, a frequent commenter here on Kmareka and a thoughtful analyst of Rhode Island social [...]
Kmareka on TV
Ninjanurse (aka Nancy Green) is a guest on the public access program, ‘Rhode Island Soapbox’. The panel debates “Aging in Community’ The moderator is Judy Newcomb-Gross, other guests are Dick Bidwell of the Grey Panthers and William Flynn, executive director of Senior Agenda Coalition of RI. Our gracious producer is Libby Schiller. We talk about [...]
Politics and the Surgeon General
For the last eight years, a span that includes the attacks of 9/11, the Anthrax scares, the continuing threat of pandemic flu and a slow-motion health insurance Katrina, the office of the Surgeon General has been neglected.
Triage
There’s an old saying, ‘Nurses eat their young.’ Traditionally, the first year on the job is a trial by fire, and the necessary process of sorting out the new grads who should be doing something else is compromised by the hazing that was tolerated for too long. Medical workers are supposed to be sensitive and [...]
A Valuable Family
So yes, I’m hard on Sarah Palin, the candidate of family values, self-sufficiency, religion and tax cuts. Especially when it looks like her family gets special privileges while others in the same situation struggle to survive and are disparaged for being poor.
Apology, Fox Style
You probably heard about the Fox ticker (the words scrolling under the video) that called the President-elect ‘the magic negro’. This was a little embarrassing for the network, so they offered a very special apology. Fox News VP of programming Suzanne Scott explains, “We received tens of thousands of text message submissions during our New [...]
Dog’s Life
By way of Pam’s House Blend…While Michael Vick sits in jail, one of his former dogs makes the cover of Sports Illustrated. Sweet Jasmine looks adorable in the cover photo, and has way more fans right now. I hope Sweet Jasmine dodges the curse of Sports Illustrated, and her team (of rehabilitated dogs and their [...]
Wildest Prediction 2009
Nomi told me this–and it wins the award for most wildly improbable yet funny prediction so far. I was tempted to put it in my post, but better yet, check out the original here.
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