A Mutant?
I’ve surrendered my front yard, which is about the size of a bandanna, to nature. I call it a butterfly garden, because milkweeds grow there. There’s bulbs, too, planted by tenants from years past. Every year I get some nice daffodils and this year I got whatever that is in the picture. These are the [...]
Senator Uses The ‘F’ Word
Or at least one of the ‘f’ words. Don’t you dare call Senator John McCain a ‘maverick’. He’s a ‘fighter’. Maybe because fighters take orders and mavericks are unpredictable and think for themselves. He’s mellowed since his maverick days. Point him in the direction he’s supposed to go and he’ll fight.
Civics and Spelling
A sad example of the state of education today. I saw a this graffiti sprayed on the side of a house– ‘Fucc Congress’. While at dinner tonight we recalled a few spray paint favorites. ‘Die niger’ and ‘Satin rules’. Not only cliched but misspelled. Have the great days of well-aimed insults died with John Wilkes? [...]
A Change of Heart?
Has the Pope started to really listen? Pope Benedict XVI wept as he met Maltese victims of the paedophile priest scandals rocking the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday and expressed his own “shame and sorrow”. “He listened to us individually, and prayed and cried with us,” said Lawrence Grech, one of eight abuse victims who [...]
Bishop’s Revenge on Nuns
This is the present state of health care– this is why we needed reform… Arizona has become the first state to cancel its State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which, like other SCHIP programs, is funded jointly by the state and the federal government. The budget passed by the legislature and signed into law by Republican [...]
Sixth National Clinical Cannabis Conference in Warwick RI
I am attending this conference as a way to educate myself as a mental health practitioner, looking to understand more of the science behind the uses of cannabis. The conference agenda is as follows: Agenda – Sixth National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics Thursday April 15, 2010 7 PM – Reception & Exhibits Friday, April [...]
Elderly– Get a Job!
I don’t see the older people who don’t need help, so I have a kind of skewed sense of life at age 70 and up. The people I visit have physical or cognitive limitations and I’m part of the support system. Still, after a day of talking to people in the high-rise buildings and people [...]
She’s Not Really Naked!
Feministing has photos of Brittney Spears before and after retouching. In the ‘afters’ she is not only slimmed down, but kind of blurred, so that the physicality is veiled. Even Brittney is shocking when she poses without a thin layer of paint to cover her sins. It was revealing, in more ways than one. I [...]
The Exorcist
Kmareka readers know that I’ve disclosed being part of a Catholic Charismatic group that performed exorcisms in the 1970′s. Clearly, in my case, it didn’t take. But while I came through that craziness with invaluable life experience in the power of groupthink, others might suffer great emotional harm, or even be driven into psychosis. There [...]
The Incredible Lightness of Giving
It is easy to fall prey to cynicism and despair. Greed and cruelty—and their offspring, deprivation and suffering—abound. A glance at any newspaper or newscast makes their dark ubiquity clear. In such an environment, the simple act of getting out of bed in the morning becomes an act of faith and defiance. Some acclimate to [...]
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