Botox Paralyzes the Body-Mind Connection
I was once doing rounds in a nursing home, going from room to room. Every room had a TV, always on, usually playing Fox News at high volume. I caught a few seconds of a talking woman’s head. She had a Schlafly hairdo and was so angry she was nearly spraying saliva. But there was [...]
Vote Now!
Having had a night to sleep on it, I’ve decided that Rhode Island needs an authentic political voice. We have too much yapping from big national parties, (no offense, Dems and Repubs), Green is okay, but right now I’ve got the blues, the Moderate party doesn’t excite passion and the Tea Party– pushing a Chinese [...]
Get Well Soon
Kellen the Human Cannonball is out of the hospital. And I thought my job was tough.
Hurricane Season
Less than a month into the 2010 hurricane season we are already up to ‘Celia’ in the storm name alphabet. I’m posting my favorite hurricane link, to National Hurricane Center. This takes you to a cool map of the Atlantic and Pacific with storms in color codes by severity. You don’t have to get it [...]
Thank You, Dad
Happy Father’s Day to my Dad, who raised seven of us in a house with one bathroom, worked six days a week, and didn’t seem to think it was any big deal. That’s what men do. Happy Father’s Day to my husband, who walked the baby at 3am, who pays the bills, who critiques my [...]
Taken in Context
Is this a case of Puritanical bureaucrats putting their blue-stockinged heel on the throat (a lovely swan-like throat, let’s say) of sexual happiness? From NYT… Drug for Sexual Desire Disorder Opposed by Panel A federal advisory panel on Friday unanimously voted against recommending approving a drug to treat female sexual desire disorder, but it encouraged [...]
Peerless Lofts
So, what’s not to like about an organization called Green Drinks? Green Drinks meets on the third Thursday of every month in different local businesses and venues. It’s an opportunity to get inside some of the buildings you drive past every day, and see creative green architecture in good company. This month’s meeting was sponsored [...]
Teach Them to Use the Internet and They Won’t Bother You for Weeks
Scientists in Japan find evidence that monkeys like to watch TV. Well, duh. Don’t you think it gets boring sitting around in some lab all day? Open the cage door and see how long they stick around watching C-Span. I have an uncomfortable sense that myself clicking a mouse and a hamster pressing a bar [...]
Book Sale at Pawtuxet Farmer’s Market This Saturday
From Steve Stycos: FARM & RIVER DAY Saturday, the Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market will hold it spring book sale Saturday to benefit the education fund of Bob and Alan Fratantuono, the sons of the late Peter Fratantuono of Moosup River Farm. Peter, a graduate of Cranston High School West, was the first farmer to attend [...]
Scary
A woman was bitten by a rabid fox in Foster, RI.
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