Vicious and Vain
Surreal, this report that mass murderer Anders Brievik had plastic surgery to make himself look more ‘Aryan’. Far right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway earlier in July, had reportedly undergone plastic surgery to appear more Aryan, a Norwegian intelligence official claimed [...]
Crazy Logic
Of all the crazy propositions being thrown around in the current debt crisis talks, the tough, ‘zero tolerance’, ‘no tax increases ever’ seem craziest to me. For one thing, every cut is a cost of living increase on the people who lose a service. Another fact of life is that you have to expect the [...]
A Lot to be Grateful For
Thank you to all the kind readers who sent your thoughts and support. It is good to have so many friends. My Dad came home from the hospital yesterday, and we’ll stay close to keep him safe. He’s getting home care– not from me, but from a nurse who will be able to keep his [...]
Waiting
No surprise that we’re here waiting. This is life when you get to the age when you count your blessings and count the days. The worst thing we could do to our parents would to pre-decease them, so the best requires us to say goodbye. There’s a Buddhist story. A peasant man saves up until [...]
Obituary for My Mother, Ann Marie (Nancy) Stoppleworth
Ann Marie (Nancy) Stoppleworth passed away on July 22, 2011 in Providence, RI. She was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on August 3, 1925, the oldest daughter of Mary and William Dwyer. Nancy was a graduate of Saint Francis Nursing School for her RN, Georgetown University for her Bachelors degree in Nursing, and The University of [...]
Lose Weight and Save Money with Canadian-Style Healthcare
Thanks to protect_democracy at Buzzflash for this link to a post by Robert Reich that puts the health care mess in terms you don’t have to be an economist to understand… America spends $30 billion a year fixing medical errors – the worst rate among advanced countries. Why? Among other reasons because we keep patient [...]
Norway’s Oklahoma City
Violence against innocent people, who knows why? Criminals always have their reasons, but it never makes sense. With so much hate it’s easy for murder to hide in plain sight. One man, it seems, took ninety-one lives. Not only by the impersonal crime of bombing, but with a gun. It will never make sense. Our [...]
Debt Crisis Local and National
Tom Sgouros explains it… Let’s be real, after the Clinton surplus, we have a deficit because George W. Bush chose to prosecute two wars without paying for them, allowing our soldiers and their families to be the only ones to sacrifice for war. He also proposed and saw passed a Medicare drug benefit that predominantly [...]
Australia Halts Murdoch Monopoly
If we’re lucky, future historians will look back on this time as a turning point… Scandal stricken News Corp suffered a fresh setback today when Australian Competition Commission said that its $2.7 billion takeover bid of Austar raised “significant” monopoly issues and delayed decision on it till September. The takeover bid by Foxtel, part owned [...]
Smell Test
I upset my family sometimes by my casual attitude in the kitchen. Expiration dates are only a suggestion, I believe. Being old, I remember when there were no expiration dates and you just guessed, and my grandparents got by with an icebox. If the ice melted you just had to wing it. I took microbiology, [...]
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