It’s Who ?

I’m driving south on SR 66 in Ohio this afternoon after visiting my father-in-law, who is recovering from surgery, and I am listening to an interview on NPR.  The interviewer, who is female, is asking a man about the bills before Congress regarding Financial Reform.  And the man is replying.  And the more I listen [...]

No Good News

For background, read this and this. Now, it is Friday afternoon.  In the Taking-Care-of-Business post, I talked about my father-in-law.  The tests that have been run on him during the last nine days painted a bleak picture. Their was an obstruction in his large intestine that had grown so large that he could not pass [...]

The Absolute Hardest

thing I’ve ever had to do, was to visit Jack when he was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. Jack and I were more than co-workers.  We had desks about five feet apart.  I ran the computer shop.  Jack was a forester by education and was bringing new technology in the form of Geographic Information Systems [...]

Taking Care Of Business

I’ve been meaning to write about this and, well, you know how life comes along and you never get around to things, or you procrastinate?  Well, I’m guilty of all of the above. I’m talking about taking care of the most personal and important business there is – YOU. I am neither a health nut [...]

More on Coal

Arianna Huffington has a piece up here on cause of the loss of life at Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia.

A “Quiet”

It’s been what, a couple of weeks, since the arrest of nine members of the Hutare Militia in southern Michigan?  Anyway, about that long.  And I’ve noticed one thing. Well, as observant readers will recall, the ol’ Chief is a retired member of the U.S. Navy.  Twenty one years. I am on some Yahoo mailing [...]

My Choices

for Supreme Court nominee: Arianna Huffington suggested Elizabeth Warren as the person to replace Justice Stevens.  I think she would be an excellent choice. Another person, although not a lawyer, that would make an excellent Justice is Melissa Harris-Lacewell. UPDATE:  Another excellent choice would be Hillary Clinton. Lest anyone think that I cannot find any [...]

In A Just World . . .

Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship would spend the rest of his life on a chain gang swinging a twenty pound sledge hammer.

You Just Cannot

Make this stuff up.  The link is via the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune and it is not a long story Officials: CO deputy on leave after shocking high school students with stun gun at career fair Associated Press LEADVILLE, Colo. – A sheriff’s deputy in Colorado has been placed on unpaid administrative leave after he [...]

Coal

From the Charlotte Observer via McClatchy