What a pain! I’ve lost the journal entry for Sunday. The computer was giving me problems all morning and then when I tried to shut down to reboot, it apparently didn’t save anything at all. I’m running a file search right now to see if I can find any .
Yesterday was definitely a ‘bad’ day for the local newspaper. Besides the usual idiocy in the “Tell it to the ER” column…my copy was missing the Sunday comic section! For me, the comics are the only reason to buy this rag and that’s twice now in the past month that they have missed inserting them. To give you an idea of how good this paper is; they had two (2) full page ads from competing chiropractors in the front section of the paper along with one quarter page ad. These bozos were selling the use of the DRX 9000 Back Adjustment Machine. One chiropractor had a photo of himself in a sort of Superman costume? OK, maybe newspapers have to take any kind of advertising to make a profit these days…but this should tell you all you need to know about chiropractors!
Then there was an article about State Senator Carol Migden and her drive to require labeling for cloned meat. Now that should tell you plenty about her level of intelligence. Unfortunately, the article also reveals the intelligence levels of the “average” consumer as well. We have been eating cloned fruits and vegetables for decades and cloned meat is no different.
The front page was filled with the usual “what if” articles about the shootings in
Predicting random chaos from hindsight
By Niall Ferguson
“Why do we insist on drawing causal chains to exceedingly rare calamities after the fact?”
A good question. Millions will now be spent on researching the “what if” factor and in the end, nothing will have changed. Until Americans come to realize that mental illness is a very real problem, it will only be swept under the bureaucratic rug. This nation can’t handle physical illness very well; how on earth will we ever get a handle on mental illness? (Thank you so much,
By
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To blame it on Koreans is simply idiotic. Mental illness isn’t ethnic. But violence is! A culture that worships violence will be violent. Americans, as a rule, are violent and we love it…but we’re not alone in our love for it. The majority of mankind loves it as well. (Man-kind? An oxymoron?) Though some ethnic groups love it more than others do. A Korean did it? No, a human did it. This is tribalism in its full glory. There are no individual races…only the human race. And until that’s understood, violence will continue.
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