Posts Tagged: Health
Friday Bullets For A Sad Brazil Portugal Showdown
Posted by on Friday, June 25, 2010 in - 11 comments
You take the day off to see two power houses take each other on and it is a snooze fest. You take an early lunch to sneak a peak at an unlikely match between Italy and Slovakia and its a masterpiece. Bring on the knockout round. Bring on the need to win. Today's game was like the second period in … read more »
Sign of The Endtimes #2658: Helpful Clothes
Posted by on Monday, June 7, 2010 in - 4 comments
Again with the failing cause of the right to idleness illustrated by the lengths that scientists will go to keep us from the benefits of idleness: • Smart clothes could soon be helping their wearers cope with the stresses of modern life. The prototype garments monitor physiological states …
Friday Bullets For Waking At One
Posted by on Friday, April 16, 2010 in - 1 comment
This back. I wonder if it goes at the same time every year? Needs replacing. I refer to it in the third person when it gets like this. It's not "my back" it's "it." Reading occurred. Did you know that there is a difference between being an attorney for constituents and a virtual representative …
This Is How The Internet Validates Big Silly Moos
Posted by on Monday, March 22, 2010 in - 1 comment
I watched the vote in the House of Representatives yesterday and was struck how was a real lesson in civility. For an issue that is undoubtedly going to "not only changes the relationship of the citizen to the state but the very character of the people" according to one famous Chicken Little {h/t …
So How Does That Marketplace Work?
Posted by on Monday, February 22, 2010 in - 2 comments
The New York Times has published the thoughts of five prominent Republicans on the health care question and this is good. You wouldn't catch FoxNews or Limbaugh setting out the position of the right. Responsibility for one's own ideas carries too many risks. But the care that has gone into …
Friday Bullets For Feeling Concussed And Grumpy
Posted by on Friday, February 19, 2010 in - 3 comments
Bug? Beat? Who knows? I was fine at 11 pm but by 1:30 am it had me. The "YE SHALL NOT SLEEP" throbbing sinus thingamabob. Ginger beer seems to help. The spicy sort. I have to remember in these troubled times that, like Gordon Lightfoot, I am still alive. • How far can Canada go after being held …
The Trouble With Science Is In The Evidence
Posted by on Thursday, February 4, 2010 in - leave a comment
We are generally clever, we humans. We figure things out by what we see about us. But there are two problems - what we haven't seen yet and what that we make decisions without considering what we haven't seen yet. Consider this: • ...in recent months at a clinic in Liège, Belgium, the patient …
Friday Bullets For The January Thaw
Posted by on Friday, January 15, 2010 in - 1 comment
Six days of above freezing on the radar all of a sudden. This sorta thing always makes me believe it will be a soft winter but, then, WHAMMO, it will be -87 ten days from now. The Olympics may well be pooched if this sort of thing keeps up out west. What if the snow doesn't show? What if it rains …
Friday Bullets For The Beginning of the Off Season
Posted by on Friday, November 6, 2009 in - 3 comments
No baseball and no elections. It is that time of the year when you have to make do and you have to make do with a toque on your head. I don't know if I am ready. It got so long for summer to get going. Now we wait for our winter of discontent. I have to put away the garden hose and bring out the …
Friday Bullets For That Aching Left Shoulder
Posted by on Friday, October 30, 2009 in - 6 comments
So we got the needle. We qualify for the early line up and the system worked pretty well though we did hit a rather sweet lull in the wait times. "Will we feel the pinch for long?" we ask. Pause. "You'll feel it, alright." I have a super noogie while others can't lift the arm over their head … read more »
