Food Wasted
Kmareka had a post about British corporations that were trashing food in Kenya because they didn’t want to hurt the image of the brand. Happens in the USA too.
Providence in NYT
Cool to see a local business, Home Instead, featured in the NYT today. Also cool that it’s my profession, home care nursing. Today’s article, ‘A Graying Population, a Graying Work Force’ profiles some of the workers and their clients. It’s demanding work, essential work and fulfilling. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — One recent morning Antonia Antonaccio, a [...]
What My Doctor Prescribed
Regular readers will be shocked to hear that Ninjanurse, on her last physical exam, was not found to be in perfect health. Sitting in a car for half the work day, fighting the traffic up and down Rt.95 in a car the size of a golf cart, followed by a relaxing few hours of pointing [...]
Just Wondering…
• Why senior staff members at the Securities and Exchange Commission, who were found to be “surfing Internet pornography when they should have been policing the financial system,” weren’t satisfied with viewing the naked greed of bankers screwing the American people? • Whether Senator John McCain, who is facing “a tough primary challenge from former [...]
Fixer Priest
Michel Martin on NPR’s show ‘Tell Me More’ has a chilling interview with an ex-priest who once helped shuffle child abusers to poor parishes all over the world. It was assumed that the less powerful would not complain or be believed if they did. Patrick Wall grew to understand that system from the inside. He’s [...]
Have Mercy!
As if gay people haven’t suffered enough, now there’s a gay character in Archie comics. I remember being traumatized by Christian Archie Comics. A brave historian has dared to revisit those days, a link is here. If you survived the decade of dirty hippies, scary black radicals and The Cross and the Switchblade, approach that [...]
Old-Time Doctors
A lot of snarky jokes are being spun from Republican hopeful Sue Lowden’s suggestion that we all just go back to a simpler time when you could barter a chicken for your medical bill. The best of these is a chicken-conversion site that helps patients and doctors calculate what is a fair price in chickens [...]
Computer Won’t Make You Smart
The net has been a source of great fun and many wasted hours but I’m not surprised to see that pointing and clicking does not exercise your brain. A study shows that people who used the brain boosting programs might as well have been reading lurid news stories about euthanized mice. This doesn’t surprise me [...]
Several Mice Were Euthanized
Honestly, I don’t know why I bother to read the news and stay informed. All it does is make my head throb and my stomach roil. Of the four major food groups, two of mine are aspirin and antacids. I munch ‘em like a ballplayer eating sunflower seeds. That can’t be healthy. Some recent news [...]
Hunger and Callous Waste
My family is Irish-American, brought here by the consequences of a famine called The Great Hunger. There’s a book of the same name, but I can’t read more than a few pages without putting it down. One glaring injustice the book records is the fact that Ireland exported vegetables to England all during the famine [...]
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