Posted in The Meditations on Aug 27th, 2007 3 Comments »
My mother is an amazing woman. My mother was the result of my grandmother’s affair with her boss. My mother was sent away shortly after her birth, and no one, not even her mother’s family, knew that she existed. She grew up in a Catholic boarding school in Pee Wee Valley, KY. [...]
Posted in The Meditations on Aug 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
There are three reasons that people take drugs:
1) Recreational: Pot smokers get high and watch SpongeBob. Viagra users have sex. Drinkers talk loud and break stuff.
2) Cure: When you have strep, you take penicillin. The bacteria is killed, and you return to normal.
3) Comfort: Cold medicine doesn’t cure the cold, [...]
Posted in The Meditations on Aug 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
I have a friend who spent some time in Paris. Upon returning to the United States, she was surprised at the level of discourse. Conversation in Paris was simply more interesting and sophisticated than what we have in the US. (The French could not be convinced that attacking Iraq was a good [...]
Posted in The Meditations on Aug 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
Sometime in 1992, Guinea Worms came across my radar. If you drink untreated water in a developing nation, you could pick up the larvae of the worm which grows and mates in your small intestine. It grows to two or three feet and is about as think as a spaghetti noodle. Eventually [...]