Posting schedule remains light through the weekend as we shop assisted living facilities for Mom. Funnies are being gathered for Sunday as always. A few headlines...
-- Scary Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders is scaring conservaDems. They're throwing around big numbers, and not of the fundraising kind. Robert Reich takes the frightened children to school (they may not learn, however). My problem is that Sanders is not thinking big enough, personally. Now how scary would that be?
Why in the wide world of sports are Americans so paranoid?
-- Another community college school shooting. Another mildly irritated president saying something about it. Another day in America. There will be another shooting next week, a couple more before the end of the year. Everybody's reaction outside the circle of families and friends of those killed will be the same.
-- Another blog bites the dust. I remember that Tom DeLay conference call with Amanda and Pandagon and the rest of the then-thriving Texblogosphere. Alas, most people would rather troll Twitter or bloviate on Facebook. There's just a few of us left now, and many of those are are only good for a once-a-week posting. I can still recall dreaming that we were going to change the world. The world changed all right, just not in the direction I was intending.
-- The world's largest pharmaceutical companies don't need $13 pills to increase to $750 overnight in order to pay for research and development of new, more effective, life-saving medication. They need it for their CEO's bonuses, of course, but they also need those millions to pay for lobbyists in Congress to keep things that way. They actually spend seven times as much on lobbying as they do on political contributions.
Maybe we have a problem that a pill can't cure.
-- Set some time aside to read the story of Demetri Kofinas, who developed a brain tumor that slowly robbed him of every memory he had, and which all came flooding back to him -- sometimes out of order -- after successful brain surgery.
-- Scary Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders is scaring conservaDems. They're throwing around big numbers, and not of the fundraising kind. Robert Reich takes the frightened children to school (they may not learn, however). My problem is that Sanders is not thinking big enough, personally. Now how scary would that be?
Why in the wide world of sports are Americans so paranoid?
-- Another community college school shooting. Another mildly irritated president saying something about it. Another day in America. There will be another shooting next week, a couple more before the end of the year. Everybody's reaction outside the circle of families and friends of those killed will be the same.
-- Another blog bites the dust. I remember that Tom DeLay conference call with Amanda and Pandagon and the rest of the then-thriving Texblogosphere. Alas, most people would rather troll Twitter or bloviate on Facebook. There's just a few of us left now, and many of those are are only good for a once-a-week posting. I can still recall dreaming that we were going to change the world. The world changed all right, just not in the direction I was intending.
-- The world's largest pharmaceutical companies don't need $13 pills to increase to $750 overnight in order to pay for research and development of new, more effective, life-saving medication. They need it for their CEO's bonuses, of course, but they also need those millions to pay for lobbyists in Congress to keep things that way. They actually spend seven times as much on lobbying as they do on political contributions.
Maybe we have a problem that a pill can't cure.
-- Set some time aside to read the story of Demetri Kofinas, who developed a brain tumor that slowly robbed him of every memory he had, and which all came flooding back to him -- sometimes out of order -- after successful brain surgery.
