Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, tagged age, agent, aid, antigen, awareness, banner, blood, blue, bone, Bono, brain, breast, brigade, cancer, case, cause, celebrities, celebrity, chance, class, death, develop, digestive, disease, doctor, endocrine, equal, exam, explanation, finger, flag, funding, hand, hormone, info, information, leukemia, life, lifetime, living, lymphoma, man, medical, men, minority, myeloma, New Yorker, odds, opposite, Pink, populace, population, prevalent, probability, probe, prostate, PSA, public, respiratory, ribbon, right, series, sex, skin, span, specific, stand, statistic, suffer, super, support, test, U2, warrior, woman, women on February 15, 2010 |
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I last wrote about breast cancer in my informal “medical series” here on the blog so, to be fair to the opposite sex, I’ll now address prostate cancer. Unlike the enthusiastic pink-banner-waving breast warriors-of-awareness, prostate cancer’s agents of information fly below the radar with little hoopla, few public endorsements, and no ribbon brigades. But statistically, [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged abnormal, alone, anger, behavior, brain, Bridgeville, church, dangerous, death, decision, depressed, depression, disbelief, disturbing, emotion, frustration, George Sodini, God, gym, hell, homicidal, homicide, hope, hopeless, impulse, Institute of Psychiatry, irritation, joyless, killing, King's College, London, loneliness, lost, love, melancholy, misogynist, misogyny, murder, negative, out-of-control, pastor, Pennsylvania, personal, Pittsburgh, Plato, postive, psychopath, psychopathic, psychosis, psychotic, relationship, resent, sarcasm, self-defeat, shooting, spite, suicidal, suicide, unstable, violence, women on August 11, 2009 |
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I am going away on business for a few weeks but wanted to post before I left. Now then, this is still a fresh and highly contentious subject so please navigate away from this page after the following paragraph if it is too sensitive a subject for you. My thoughts are often … unconventional … [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged alternate history, armageddon, atone, author, bacteria, Beowulf, blight, blink, burst, construst, dead, death, denial, destroy, disillusionment, doom, doomsday, eco group, eco warrior, economy, end, Ender, Ender's Game, European, extinction, fantasy, fearmongering, fertile, fiction, giant, global, global warming, government, Homo sapiens, hopeless, human nature, ignorance, imminent, intelligence, invulnerable, knowledge, millenia, New World, nuclear, Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch, personal, planet, pollute, prophecy, quasar, red, Redemption of Christopher Columbus, religion, religious, rule, safety, sci-fi, science fiction, scientist, social, species, stability, stable, survive, time, Wal-Mart, world, zealot on July 28, 2009 |
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If you’ve read much of the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre, you’ve probably heard of Orson Scott Card. Probably best known for his “Ender” series (beginning with Ender’s Game), he has authored dozens of books and short stories as well as having worked on scripts, comic book novelizations, video game dialogs, and many other projects. Buried somewhere [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Music, Personal Insights, tagged abomination, bleach, camera, cardiac arrest, comfort, cosmetic surgery, CPR, crowd, dead, death, eccentricity, endanger, face, flower, freak, fuss, grotesque, harm, headline, heart, hospital, issue, kill, King of Pop, Lisa Marie Presley, media, medical treatment, memorial, Michael Jackson, molest, Mr. Potato Head, Music, news, peace, pedophile, professional, psychiatrist, psychologist, record, satisfy, skin, son, song, stardom, therapist, Thriller, toy, tribute, unstable, wrong on June 26, 2009 |
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As you probably heard, Michael Jackson died yesterday. The proclaimed “King of Pop” suffered a cardiac arrest and could not be revived. Flowers and memorials crowd the Hollywood Walk of Fame near his star and headlines around the world pay him tribute. But why all the fuss? I liked Thriller, too, but let’s face it, [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, attention, authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Barack Obama, bleed, blood, conflict, corrupt, country, death, dishonest, economic, election, financial, Flickr, force, fraud, government, Green, hate, hope, idealism, implosion, intervention, investigate, Iran, Iraq, Khamenei, kill, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, media, Middle East, Mir Hossein Mousavi, mistreat, money, Musovi, Neda, news, North Korea, Obama, peace, politician, power, pragmatism, protest, protesters, region, right, scar, sensationalism, swayed, Tehran Live, Twitter, unarmed, upheaval, US, victory, violence, war on June 25, 2009 |
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The media splashes violent scenes of people being beaten and a young woman dying in the street and calls it news. It’s sensationalism, but I suppose that’s what it takes to get our attention any more. If you’ve watched a news program at all in the last week or so you’ve probably seen some of [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged 1970, 1980, accident, advice, author, bargain, beautiful, betrayal, bin, book, bookstore, chance, change, character, child, classroom, coma, comeback, Constant Reader, consumer, death, disappoint, doctors, favorites, genre, gorgeous, Hawke's Harbor, hope, love, minority, mistake, moving, novel, personal, plot, publish, rating, reading, record, recovery, required, review, Rumble Fish, S E Hinton, serious, story, stranger, striking, supernatural, surprise, suspicious, Taming the Star Runner, temptation, Tex, That Was Then This Is Now, The Outsiders, touching, treasure, vampire, voice, wary, wrenching, young adult on May 23, 2009 |
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Before I leave yet again, on yet another trip to last at least two weeks, I thought I would share some thoughts on the most recent addition to my reading materials. Very few people haven’t heard of S. E. Hinton, a young adult genre author who makes the required reading list in most if not [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged America, Americans, bank, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, candidate, cheat, China, Communist, consequences, corporate, corruption, council, cowardice, crazy, Dark Ages, death, deception, Democratic, destruction, dishonor, economy, election, electoral college, executive, facet, fiat, George W. Bush, global, government, greed, hell, infiltrate, inflation, judicial, legislative, lie, local, millions, money, national, nonsense, parallel dimension, perception, platform, politicians, politics, president, representative, Rip Van Winkle, Robert Heinlein, saviour, spending, state, Stranger In A Strange Land, trillions, uncontrolled, understanding, vote, Washington, worldwide, wrong on March 26, 2009 |
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My fellow Americans, and other readers from around the world, I believe something very strange has happened to us. An author named Robert Heinlein once wrote a book called Stranger in a Strange Land, and while I’ve never read said book I feel the title is all too accurate in describing my little corner of [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged accident, Bewowulf, car, death, Ford, school, teacher, yellow lab on December 18, 2008 |
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Somewhere in high school I remember reading Beowulf. I had the “bad” habit of reading more than we were supposed to and often jumped ahead to read what I thought would be more interesting. The curriculum was very slow-paced and I spent years in terminal boredom trying to amuse myself with the tiny library at [...]
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This is a long one, folks. Hang in there, I think it’s worth reading. Though I never met him, I felt an unusual kinship to the man involved here and felt the need to share more of him and his story than the last few seconds of it. Pieces of the story have circled the [...]
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