Category Archives: General

September 11, 2009

I was teaching 11th Grade U.S. History at Heritage Hall on this day in 2001. The day became more and more horrible. First the planes slamming into the office buildings. The plane at the Pentagon. The plane that slammed into a field in Pennsylvania. The towers, burning and falling. People jumping. The horror grew. What can you say to children at such a time? I can’t recall that I said anything at all. I still don’t have a word to say, not a word.

August 29, 2009 updated

Senator Doctor Tom Coburn does it again. Weeping woman asks for help with her brain injured husband who has been refused help by their insurance coverage. Tom tells her to suck it up and beg for help from her neighbors but not the government. Watch.

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UPDATE:

Oh, Teh Stupid, it burns. More right wing, jaw dropping idiocy from Glen Beck:

August 24, 2009

IN MEMORIAM

This blog will soon be dead. I’ve decided to stop doing this low-tech crap and move into the 21st Century world of video blogging. It’s so much easier than typing. Besides, only 8 people read this blog because that’s about the total of people in the United States of America who remain literate.

So, dear readers, go to THIS LINK if you wish at all to continue to follow my adventures.

Thanks for the … well, not so much, but goodbye cruel world I’m flouncing out.

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August 19, 2009

IMAGINE THAT!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Baby boomers, now well into middle age, are still turning on to illegal drugs, doubling the rates of illicit drug use for the older generation, according to U.S. government statistics released on Wednesday.
The rates of people aged 50 to 59 who admit to using illicit drugs in the past year nearly doubled from 5.1 percent in 2002 to 9.4 percent in 2007 while rates among all other age groups are the same or decreasing, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported.