Jeeze, it’s been such a busy day, I almost forgot to post a creature! Seriously, I haven’t even gotten through my morning email yet (and it’s after dinner at this point)… it’s been steady all day. All good stuff, though....
Thank God. This judge just saved at least 90 lives. From AJC:
The order prevents Grady participating in efforts to get patients currently receiving dialysis treatments to discontinue their treatments at Grady, including encouraging them to move to other...
The first image is from OkCupid Politics, which I just finished. Similar here and another here. The second is my result from the last one (politicalcompass.org), when I took it last year. Of course, the historical and contemporary figures are guesses,...
Ella's tiny foot was the first thing I saw on her the day she was born. The nurses upon discovering her club foot whisked her away from my exhausted self to further examine her. As I waited expectantly to hold...
… Tough subject to talk about in a fair way. I’ll try. These thoughts will be random and disconnected, as usual.
First, please construe nothing I say as an effort to minimize the wrong-doing documented in the famous videos...
Pictures won't do this justice, but they come close. My youngest and I crashed the Grand Opening of Gigi's Cupcakes in Chattanooga, and we came away a thousand pounds heavier. Click on my Whrrl capture {one of the easiest ways...
It's all your fault that government doesn't work. ;) (yes, that's an emoticon...I know those have caused some stress here at the Institute lately...you're just going to have to deal with it). Brian's previous post on Robin Hanson's 'cooperation' comments made...
It's been raining here for what feels like weeks....so, I've been inventing things to do with Gus to get him out of the house. Yesterday morning, we went to the mall (of all places!) and just walked around for...
Republican gubernatorial candidate and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam was the guest speaker at last Friday's Southeast Tennessee Political Action Committee (SETPAC) luncheon. He spent part of the morning organizing his ground forces in neighboring Sequatchie County before arriving at the...
Well, I guess it would be debatable whether or not this is the shittiest call ever made by an NFL official because they have made some doozies but it has to rank right up there with the worst of them.
Judge...
John Dominic Crossan is giving a lecture, open to the public (that’s me!), tonight at Grace Episcopal on Belvoir… in the nave. So, I think I’ll go if I can. I still haven’t made it to Nightfall this year,...
Thursday evening, I turned on pre-moderation for all comments on Chattarati. This simply means that all comments have to be approved by a moderator before going live. This is standard practice on many websites, but hopefully, it will be a...
Although my irony meter has been damaged beyond repair by these folks complaining about Barack Obama making an “end run around Congress”, I’ll give Morissey props for both 1) more or less properly relating the administration’s position, and 2) for...
Today marks six years since the last time I smoked a cigarette. I almost missed the date because I seriously don’t ever even think about smoking at all anymore. It feels good....
Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on...
I can't believe I am standing today in a Christian church defending the proposition that we should lessen the suffering of those who cannot afford health care in an economic system that often treats the poor as prey for the...
By Vincente Navarro M.D., Ph.D. I don't doubt that President Obama, a decent man, wants to provide universal health care to all citizens of this country. But his judgment in developing his strategy to reach that goal is profoundly flawed, and,...
By Rep. Anthony Weiner It seems that big legislation isn't complete until it develops a collection of catchphrases. ("Shovel ready," everyone? "Cash for clunkers," perhaps?) The effort to tackle the long list of failings of our health care system and the...
This is a death sentence for the poor, indigent and undocumented workers who depend on Grady for dialysis. Absolutely sickening, from AJC:
Grady Memorial Hospital’s plan to send kidney dialysis patients to several other states, where the hospital said they...
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