I know wherein I speak about medical care. I’ve had very bad medical care which was nominally better than none. These days, it’s good, bordering on great. It didn’t happen all at once.
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BE KIND TO YOUR KIDNEYS SO THEY CAN BE KIND TO YOU
Autocorrect had decided the writer couldn’t possibly mean “exacerbated” and must have meant “exasperated.” I had a sudden weird mental image of his kidneys throwing up their hands or whatever kidneys throw into the air and saying, “That’s it. I’ve had it. I’m outta here.”
NOOZ, NUDES OR NEWS?
It’s all about ratings. Money is everything. Make as much money as possible. If, by chance, they manage to include some quality journalism, that’s nice. It doesn’t mean the story is accurate. Great journalism doesn’t equal truth.
BEING AGAINST FORCED BUSING DOESN’T MAKE YOU A RACIST – GARRY ARMSTRONG
I was in the middle of what I honestly call the Boston busing fiasco. On center stage, it played as a racial divide between Boston’s white and minority communities. It played well in the media – especially national and international… Read More ›
OPINION: THE WASHINGTON POST
This is a very good article and a serious warning about what our world will look like unless we get up and out and massively and collectively vote. However confused and messed up Democrats are, they are trying to create… Read More ›
FROM THE BOSTON GLOBE
Date: June 24, 2022, 5:53 PM So I guess if any of my young relatives get pregnant, and a serious situation develops, they should just walk down the street and ask random strangers what they should do. Mind you, these… Read More ›
IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT BOOKS
Reading Culture and Books I want to start this off by saying almost everything I know that’s important to me I learned by reading. Yes, I went to school. I went to college. I got a degree. I took courses… Read More ›
SHARING THE WORLD? MAYBE WE SHOULD SHARE LESS?
SHARE YOUR WORLD 3-14-2022 There are days when I feel there’s too much sharing going on. Today, after neglecting my email for just a day and a half, I had more than 500 emails, most of them news from either the… Read More ›
WAR?
Talk about going back to the olden days. Wow, we are on a roll! Watching news tonight was a return to the 1950s when we were hiding under our desks so the A-bomb wouldn’t hit us. Even as a child,… Read More ›
WHAT’S YOUR SOURCE?
Fandango’s Provocative Question #134 I would like to point out that there’s plenty of room between “I believe everything I hear because my sources are impeccable!” and “I think I have a sufficient selection of news sources so that mostly, I’m… Read More ›
PLUTOCRACY OR OLIGARCHY? THE UGLY CHOICE OF THIS UPCOMING ELECTION
We live in a country full of shallow, if not outrightly stupid people. They watch “the news” and believe it’s all lies because an orange-skinned bloke says so. As a woman whose husband was a television news reporter for more… Read More ›
CENSORSHIP AND THE LIFE WE LIVE – Marilyn Armstrong
Fandango’s Provocative Question #42 It’s a good question for everyone to ponder these days. There has always been censorship of some kind in every country as long as humans have been “civilized.” Its definition — or at last one of its… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 