Willfully Misguided & Misinformed
This morning I woke up and puttered around as usual for a Saturday. I settled down for my morning read and came across this little gem right there in my morning feed, placed there by an old friend who...
View ArticleHarder to Vote, Easier to Buy Guns
You have more difficulty buying certain anti-histamines than you do buying guns. You are limited to purchasing 24 capsules of Claritin-D per month and have to show picture ID to do it; but you can buy...
View ArticleRick Perry's Offended?
I 've read somewhere Rick Perry is offended by the "tasteless" political cartoon that points out Texas is lax in enforcing common sense hazardous materials regulation. Perry missed the boat. West,...
View ArticleShockingly Misinformed? Really? How'd That Happen?
How much does the news media's chronic quest for drama adds to the public's misinformation? How many headlines talk about the myths concerning this or that? Reporters love to stir the crap pot. I get...
View ArticleWords Matter, Attitude Matters More
Mental health has been in the news lately. Most of it is focused on the relationship between mental health issues and guns. Some of the focus surrounds the final stages for updating the Diagnostic...
View ArticleJim Inhofe - It'll Be Different in Oklahoma
Jerk extraordinaire, Jim Inhofe believes it will be different in Oklahoma. I've been trying to find this video for hours. I rarely watch or listen to Chris Jansing, but it was on this morning when she...
View ArticleGOP Lays an Egg - IRS
Many people hate the IRS. Nothing gives people the sweats like an envelope with the IRS as the return address. Groans, fear and a fleeting temptation to not open the letter overcome by (hopefully) good...
View ArticlePardon Edward Snowden Petition At 98k Signatures
The White House petition to pardon Edward Snowden will probably reach the 100,000 signatures needed for the White House to respond by tomorrow. It's at 97,791 right now and has been growing at the rate...
View ArticleDeciding to Not Be a Racist
It's easy to do. Skepticism aside, you just decide that the crap you heard when you were a kid was wrong. You decide that the bitter lady across the street was wrong. You decide the local Archie Bunker...
View ArticleData Storage and the NSA
You've seen the pictures of the NSA's new data storage facility in Utah. Maybe you've seen pictures of huge data repositories. We've seen data repositories in movies and so, it would be easy to get the...
View ArticleSprained Wrist Haiku
Sprained wrist on the Fourth.Right hand can't type, write, move much.That slide was fun! Ouch!No bruising/swelling.Just pain when I use my hand.Today? Damn that slide!Succinct diary.Typos are a bitch...
View ArticleSteve Rattner Not Familiar With the Impact of Fracking
Josh Fox was promoting HBO's Gasland II this morning on Morning Joe. Josh Fox did a good job of giving an overview of the issue concerning fracking. It got a little contentious around the 4:45 minute...
View ArticleMHP Kisses Up to the U.S. Government
Melissa Harris-Perry today had 2 back to back segments on her show today that contradicted each other. Her nonsense attempt to explain the contradiction fell just short of absurd. The earlier segment...
View ArticleSad Day for Sanford & the Fulton-Martin Family
Sanford, Florida had a chance to make a case that they are not an 80% white community that is afraid, angry and insensitive to minorities. Sanford had a chance to show in both word and deed that that...
View ArticleFor the Record I've Always had Problems with FISA & the Patriot Act
This is a political opinion. I don't like abuse of power and FISA is ripe for abuse. The right exploits fear and we are getting worse than we bargained for. We think we're safe, but security vs....
View ArticleEric Holder: We Won't Torture/Kill Snowden Just Let U.S. Get Our Hands On Him
Eric Holder sent a letter dated July 23rd, 2013 to his counterpart in Russia assuring Russia that the U.S. would not seek the death penalty against Edward Snowden, nor would the U.S. torture him. Eric...
View ArticleBought & Paid For Congressional Members
If you thought there was something odd in that vote last Wednesday that could have brought the NSA to heel, you were right. The vote was split by those who received generous defense campaign...
View ArticleFast Food, Obesity, Politics & Ignorance
A couple weeks ago, I was teaching a medical record unit that focused on malnutrition. We had a case study that had the patient both obese and anemic. Another had obesity and another nutritional...
View ArticleBlatant Lies - Yawn, No, Wait a Minute...
Mom was wrong about lying. She said no one would trust a liar. No one likes a liar. It's better to tell the truth because for one thing, it's easier to remember. She said that liars never get anywhere...
View ArticleBradley Manning - History Shows Leaks Didn't Kill Anybody
From the beginning there was no blood on his hands. It took awhile but the history is there. Bradley Manning's unauthorized disclosure to Wikileaks was far more containable, more benign than the U.S....
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