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Remote Area Medical. The Good Guys. They're Back.
They came to the Bay Area last year. In April of 2011, Remote Area Medical (RAM) with hosts The California Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the TZU Chi Foundation provided free...
View ArticleAnother Case of Diarist's Block
With all the things I've heard about on the airwaves, you'd think I have something to write about...well, not really. My heart continues to get heavier and I continue to drift further and further into...
View ArticleMixing in crazy
I have been off for a little while. I call it overload, mental overload.
View ArticleTeabaggers are technically 'delusional', as are many Republicans.
In response to this post currently on the rec list which did, unfortunately start off with a claim that teabaggers - I refuse to be nice about these people given their general meanness - are 'mentally...
View ArticleA must-read from LeMonde diplomatique: “Locking down an American workforce”
Spending most of the weekend away from the computer, but I came across this absolute must-read and couldn’t resist passing it along. Incredible! (h/t Naked Capitalism) Locking down an American...
View ArticleAs Pragmatic As It Gets: "Is The Fiscal Cliff Coming Before The Election?"
The old line on Wall Street is: “Buy on the rumor and sell on the news.” So, what happens when there are couple of major, upcoming events that many have warned us may severely affect our economy, not...
View ArticlePure, unadulterated nonsense
There's a scene in the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," the one with Gene Wilder as Wonka as opposed to Michael Jack-, um Anna Wint- um Johnny Depp, where one of the parents calls Wonka...
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Cultural Insanity - Jailed For Peeing
I don't know about you but the older I get the more I am having problems with Cultural Insanity. We as a people do need laws in order to live together with a smidgeon amount of courtesy and respect...
View ArticleSea level rise on East Coast is accelerating:With Update
This from the Washington Post Study: Warmer seas are rising faster and more along US East Coast than rest of the globe should help debunk the deniers but will it? Here in Mathews County we have hard...
View ArticlePoliceman Shoots and Kills His Own Son.
Without comment, via ABC News State troopers say a police officer in New York shot and killed his son, mistaking him for an intruder. Troopers say Parry Police Department Officer Michael Leach called...
View ArticlePaul Krugman, Kevin Drum on Romney Tax Plan
If you've been following the news about the analysis of the Romney Tax Plan, you know the Romney campaign is in a panic because it pretty much reveals Romney is pushing a plan for outright theft...
View ArticleRepublican Party - Plan 9-9-9 from Outer Space!
The more I've watched the insanity of today's Republican Party, the more I felt as if I was watching a really, really bad B-movie - and then I realized, they're re-making Plan 9 from Outer Space! This...
View Articlethe end of sanity: South Africa miners charged with murder
Just when you think the world can't possibly get worse, it does. 270 miners charged in co-workers' deaths South African authorities have charged 270 miners with murder in the killings of 34 fellow...
View ArticleDon't Lose Your Mind
The kind of hope that interests me is grounded in reality: not crossing one's fingers and buying a lottery ticket, but noticing the signs and reminders that suggest possibility. One thing that gives...
View ArticleDebating With Insanity
On Maddow last night something was said that got me thinking. In the first segment nearing the end of the interview she said and I'm not quoting but summarizing, that much of the moderates and the...
View ArticleWhy are Conservatives still crazy after all these years?
[T]he Communists have installed in the presidency a man who, for whatever reasons, appears intentionally to be carrying forward Communist aims... With regard to [this man], it is difficult to avoid...
View ArticleHey, GOP - here's why we don't take you seriously
This is a friendly epistle to those who are die-hard GOPers and read this site, for whatever reason. There are plenty of GOP folks out there who just fundamentally don't understand why those of us on...
View ArticleI Need A Drinking Game
Tonight, your Bloguero is informed by the voices in his head and emanating incessantly from the television, is a presidential debate. And so, it is incumbent upon your Bloguero, as the host of an...
View ArticleFear and Loathing from the Tribe (of Republicans)
Your reaction to my first post really blew me away! I just want to thank all of you for being so awesome. I want to write a series of these, describing my ideas about how these movements arise, how...
View ArticleDilbert Creator, Scott Adams, May I Have a Word with You on Your Mitt Romney...
Dear Mr. Adams, When I first read this morning that you have endorsed Mitt Romney for president, I assumed I was reading a piece of satire. After all, one of the principle characteristics of the...
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