Ebola, How Crazy Can We Get About a Virus?
While we were sleeping one of Thomas Eric Duncan's care givers tested positive for Ebola. The care worker saw Duncan on his second visit to the hospital and was fully geared up when administering to...
View ArticleDear Debbie Wasserman Schultz WIIFM?
The aftermath of the midterm elections is still raw. I'm siding with Jon Stewart's assessment that it was a chickenshit gambit. Howard Dean put it more politely, "You can't win if you're afraid".The...
View ArticleWhat You Aren't Hearing About the U.N. Committee Against Torture
The newsers are all over covering Michael Brown's family testifying at the U.N. Committee Against Torture about police brutality in the United States which is great. That story needs to get out that...
View ArticleWhat It Was Like To Report Sexual Harrassment & Rape in the 1980's
For those of us who were young adults in the 1980s, today's War on Women seems quaint. The Bill Cosby meme disaster is so last week, but I am struck by what the trolls are saying about what happened 30...
View ArticleNorman High School - What We Learned Since Steubenville
Like what happened in Steubenville young women in Norman, Oklahoma were sexually assaulted by a classmate. Like Steubanville gossip about the assaulted spread throughout the student body nearly...
View ArticleChallenging the Anti-Vaxxer
Remember last fall when people were crazy over Ebola? There were lots of stories about a possible Ebola vaccine in the near future and people seemed to think that was a great idea. Then, the election...
View ArticleI Said No to a Job (Sigh)
I was asked to apply for a job a couple days ago. I turned it down. I want a full time job, but .... This was a tough call, but I think it's the right one.Here's The Back DropIt's not in the papers...
View ArticleWhy I'm Not Upset About SOS Clinton's Email
It looks like this email story about HRC has got some legs. Most of it is because it's about Hillary Clinton and gosh! She could be president some day, or not. Feinstein faults HRC's silence. It's...
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No Police Brutality in Biker Gang Arrests
A picture or two...or more are worth more than a thousand words. Take a look at the picture of multiple biker gang members detained after the Waco, Texas shoot out at the Twin Peaks restaurant taken by...
View ArticleI Became a Better Person After I Stopped Going to Church
Yep, I made that statement in a room full of regularly attending church goers. There's a theological difference between a "good person" and a "Christian" that's lost on the average person. My point was...
View ArticleWhat You Don't Know About Mental Health Can Kill You or a Loved One
There's a diary out today. Yet another instance where the police come to the home of someone in a mental health crisis and the crisis ends in death. I wish this was a rare occurrence, but today's diary...
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Family Faces Jail & Fines for Cheering At Senatobia Mississippi Graduation
Prom and Graduation season is here along with all the antics that come with these rites of passage. The Superintendant for Senatobia Mississippi schools, Jay Foster, warned the audience to hold their...
View ArticleThe Maze of ACA Preventive Care For Patients With BRCA Mutation (Updated)
I support the ACA. It's a law that has done far more good than bad. It's saving lives and one of the best things about the ACA is that preventive care is performed with no cost sharing from the...
View ArticleSometimes the Pings Don't Bounce Off the Triggers
The bread and butter advice to avoid triggers includes erect boundaries, use compartmentalization, keep work separate from private life, limit harmful family relationships, learn to focus thoughts away...
View ArticleYou Should Read Bristol Palin's Bizarre Pregnancy Announcement
Bristol Palin announced on her blog today that she is pregnant. I know. I know, I could take the route of schadenfreude and hypocrisy; but that's not where I'm going to go with this diary. Feel free to...
View ArticleTsimhoni Kids in MI Sent To JV Ctr For Not Having a "Healthly Relationship"...
UPDATE: I fixed the Headline on this diary as best as possible. The judge involved revised her decision about an hour ago and sent the children to a Jewish camp rather than the juvenile detention...
View ArticleHey! Miami! Your Civil Forfeiture Dollars Squandered Here!
Follow the money.The Miami Herald has an expose out against the Bal Harbour Police Department paired up with the Glades Police Department detailing a "tri-county" task force that's missing one county....
View ArticleCan We Have a Conversation About Planned Parenthood Without the Drama?
The aftermath of the Planned Parenthood Videos continues. Today, the Senate is going to vote about defunding Planned Parenthood. It's a travesty. Planned Parenthood needs to remain funded. In some...
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NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers Launches "Red Women's Movement" - Offers Jameis...
Maybe I should describe it as an "Epic" Fail, but "Epic" is so overused. Ah, but I degress. Take a look for yourself: Yeah, nothing says we respect women as an offer to "win" an autographed Jameis...
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The Black Lives Matter Mash Up Against Unfounded Fears
It's just a few words, "In The Line Of Duty", but it conveys so much. Two police officers were killed on the job about two weeks ago, officers, Darren Goforth of Texas and Joe Gliniewicz of Illinois....
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