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March 2009



Health Care: A Right or a Privilege?

Tuesday, 31 March 2009 11:17 P GMT-05
While listening to Neil Boortz the other day, he stated quite catgorically that "Health care isn't a right, it's a privilege".I don't know about you, but I was brought up to believe that an essential tenet of morality is that an

Airplane Bird Strike Solution

Monday, 30 March 2009 8:01 P GMT-05
Bird strikes on airplanes, like the one that downed the US Airways jet on January 15th into the Hudson River, are an increasingly common problem for pilots.Fortunately, a simple and effective solution has been proposed that causes the birds no harm:&

Parrot Saves a Child's Life

Sunday, 29 March 2009 2:11 P GMT-05
It seems as if the term "bird brain" to refer to a stupid person might not be so accurate after all.In Denver, Colorado, a Quaker parrot named Willie has been credited with saving the life of a toddler, who was choking on food.When the bird

Tough Times

Friday, 27 March 2009 1:27 P GMT-05
A few weeks ago, my son was laid off from his job.  Neither of us were particularly surprised by it, as his company had already had two previous waves of layoffs, and my son knew his luck wouldn’t hold out forever if business did not pick

An Observation

Wednesday, 25 March 2009 12:48 P GMT-05
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.    Martin Luther King     "Normal" people don't change the world.  People who are normal are complacent; they are unmotivated to de

Dissecting 10 Stupid Reasons Against Gay Marriage

Monday, 23 March 2009 4:11 P GMT-05
I got this one in an emailBeing gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make

Milking a Story

Friday, 20 March 2009 1:57 P GMT-05
The other night, one of the local news stations reported that a little two year old boy had wandered off from his home and that a search was underway.  I didn't think much about it, other than hoping that he was found quickly and returned to

Negative Attitudes Toward Food and Sex Come From the Same Source

Thursday, 19 March 2009 2:35 P GMT-05
Yet again, Alternet has giving me blogging fodder.  In the article in questions, Which Is Worse These Days: Being Called Fat or Whore by Charlotte Hilton Andersen, the author explores the idea:In an interesting switch, food and sex have complet

Self Esteem Comes From Within

Wednesday, 18 March 2009 12:00 A GMT-05
On a recent Alternet article concerning women's roles in marriage, I could not help but respond to a commenter who is apparently clueless as why he has no success with women.  His comment, then my reply follow below:His comment (all gra

The True Irish Test

Tuesday, 17 March 2009 12:00 A GMT-05
Your result for The Ultimate TRUE IRISH Test... A Brave FenianYou scored 95 Common Sense, 69 Irish Facts, and 74 Irish Soul! You know your stuff. You are Irish in your heart. You probably talk like an Irish person after a few

The Progressive Quiz

Monday, 16 March 2009 11:25 A GMT-05
 Your Ideological Score Is:301/400This makes youExtremely ProgressiveThe average score for Americans is:209.5Take the Progressive Quiz

Miscellaneous Thoughts

Friday, 13 March 2009 9:43 P GMT-05
Pardon my lack of entries, but things have been a little hectic around here.  I'm kind of distracted, so this will be an equally distracted entry of the odds and ends variety as I've not had much sleep in the last two days and I'm no

Freaky Weather

Monday, 9 March 2009 8:48 P GMT-05
Last week, we had five inches of snow, which is extremely rare for this part of the country at this time of the year.Today, it was 85 degrees Fahrenheit, which broke a high temperature record for this location on this date.  I even had to run th
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The Cure Could Be Worse Than the Illness

Sunday, 8 March 2009 8:26 P GMT-05
Nearly every day, I hear a commercial on the radio promoting a nasal spray for seasonal allergy symptoms.  According to the product's website, the spray is supposed to help:sneezingcongestionitchy noserunny nose red eyesitchy eyeswatery eyes

Relationship ADD

Saturday, 7 March 2009 2:24 P GMT-05
The other day, I was visiting a lover I don't see all that regularly, and she told me that I have "Relationship ADD", because I flit from relationship to relationship, with little interest in settling down with one woman.After I finishe

Physical Fitness vs Mental Fitness

Friday, 6 March 2009 3:08 P GMT-05
Alternet has once again kindly provided me with some blogging fodder.  Author Suzie Orbach, in the article We Are in the Midst of a Cultural Explosion Tied to 'Improving' the Body, stated that:A new rhetoric of detox, weight training, br

A Fantasy Brought to Life

Wednesday, 4 March 2009 12:59 A GMT-05
Nadya Vessey, a double amputee since childhood, now has a unique new proshetic to help her swim better.It's a mermaid tail.A couple of years ago, she wrote to the prosthetic department of a special effects company, Weta Workshop.   Weta

Tax Time

Tuesday, 3 March 2009 11:11 P GMT-05
It's that time of year again.  That's right; it's tax time.I've never done my own taxes.   When my father was alive, he did my taxes, as well as those of both my siblings.  Back then, there wasn't any such thing as

Misanthrope

Monday, 2 March 2009 12:48 A GMT-05
I've not ragged on Neal Boortz in awhile, so here goes.  I've come to the conclusion that he is a complete misanthrope; he hates everyone who isn't just like him.His latest target?  Elderly people who live part time in Florida,

Snow

Sunday, 1 March 2009 10:30 P GMT-05
We hadn't had any snow this winter in my town.  There had been plenty of cold days, but none of the white stuff.  Usually, my town gets a snowfall or two every year, but I figured we weren't getting any this year.The trees in my yar


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