Christmas Eve Eve
Michael Winship of Common Dreams thinks there used to be more snow. What do you think?
Medical Consumer
Some of the statements coming from politicians and pundits about health reform are so stone ignorant you wonder if they ever in their lives got sick or saw a doctor. The word ‘choice’ gets flung around a lot. Sometimes it’s claimed that we should all have medical savings accounts. We can save faster by skipping [...]
Working During the Holidays
CayceP at Daily Kos has a nice post about working on Christmas. It’s not only hospitals that stay open 24/7. There are good and bad things about being drafted to work when everyone else is cheery and jolly. I remember a Christmas Eve at First Unitarian Church when Tom Ahlburn was minister and we observed [...]
Backwards Thinking
Wonkette has this post about a teabagger who scrawled a message to Congress with a sharpie, then faxed it upside down. Don’t you hate it when that happens? It would have been a pretty minimalist expression if he had not pressed so hard that it bled through. All Congress needs to do is hold the [...]
Long Term Survivor
Of mortality. Ann Nixon Cooper died this week at the age of 107. Take care of yourself, you never know how long you might have to live with you.
Thou Shalt Steal
I thought this was just another ‘news of the weird’ or the British press being true to its Enquiring mind. Poor people who are desperate for cash have been advised to go forth and shoplift from major stores – by an Anglican priest. The Rev Tim Jones said in his Sunday sermon that stealing from [...]
Better Late than Never
This gives me hope… Under a skylight in her tin-ceilinged loft near Union Square in Manhattan, the abstract painter Carmen Herrera, 94, nursed a flute of Champagne last week, sitting regally in the wheelchair she resents. After six decades of very private painting, Ms. Herrera sold her first artwork five years ago, at 89. Now, [...]
Senator Whitehouse
Our own Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is praised on Washington Monthly blog. But yesterday, Whitehouse didn’t hold back, blasting Senate Republicans for their “desperate, no-holds-barred mission of propaganda, falsehood, obstruction and fear.” He warned the GOP of a “day of judgment” by the electorate, which the senator said leaves Republicans “terrified.” Whitehouse added, “When it turns [...]
Solstice 2009
Solstice is both an astronomical and spiritual annual event. From the Christian Science Monitor… At 5:47 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (that’s 12:47 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) Monday, the Northern Hemisphere marked the mid-point of another year, as measured by the sun’s highest position each day above the horizon. It marked the day with the fewest [...]
Probably an Overreaction
A customer smashed every perfume bottle at Joy Joy Beauty when the clerk told her she couldn’t return items without a receipt. Another reason to avoid Christmas shopping. It’s dangerous. UPDATE: A woman tried to defend the parking spot she thought she was entitled to with an icepick. I’m definitely staying away from the Mall.
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