The story: 16-year-old kid gets Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a nasty form of cancer that is often incurable and fatal. He undergoes treatment which includes chemotherapy. He reacts badly to chemo. So he wants to discontinue chemotherapy, and start taking an “alternative”… Continue Reading
This appears to mark the end of at least one genre of “reality TV”: dating shows. The last, and greatest, of all TV dating shows, Blind Date, will only be renewed in reruns and syndication. The market appears to have… Continue Reading
I got a haircut today at one of those discount haircutting places. The haircut is OK, but now my sideburns are shaved off, and the line between hair and no hair is uneven between either side of my face. I… Continue Reading
The Wife today asked me about goals. She wondered why we hadn’t spent a lot of time talking about what our goals were and how to achieve them. It seems to me, though, that we spend quite a bit of… Continue Reading
Last night, The Wife went to our friend’s baby shower. I hung out with her husband at their house, and he and I drank beer and played on his Xbox 360. When I was a kid, the Atari and the… Continue Reading
The joint U.S.-French proposal to the U.N. Security Council regarding the war in Lebanon is quite clever, in its own way. A buffer zone between Israel and Lebanon would be created along Lebanon’s southern border, of about 400 square miles… Continue Reading
The professional football season starts in a month. The first game of the season is in four weeks, when Miami goes to Pittsburgh. Green Bay opens at home against the Chicago Bears on September 10, one month from today. So… Continue Reading
To begin an appeal in pretty much any case pending in pretty much any court, a doucment called a “notice of appeal” needs to be filed. The document is very short, usually a one-pager. Typically, the language and format are… Continue Reading
The picture to the right is from Getty Images and France Presse, taken from today’s Gray Lady, and it shows a Hezbollah-fired Katyusha rocket taking off on its way to some target in Israel. The rocket was fired from the… Continue Reading