It’s every bit as offensive as pandering to the “intelligent design” crowd. And now Barack Obama has done it too: like John McCain, he’s suggested on the campaign trail that vaccinations for childhood diseases can cause autism — a genetically-inherited… Continue Reading
Out at dinner last night, I joined my friend in a Long Island Iced Tea. Now, I’ve observed, not too long ago, that when I drink vodka, I get a charley horse the next morning in my right leg. As… Continue Reading
I call it “sternum pain” because when you complain of pain in your chest, everyone immediately thinks “heart attack.” No, I’m not having any heart attacks so just calm down there, folks. What happened was that I got up from… Continue Reading
Michael Reynolds memed me.* I’m supposed to provide a link to his website launching the meme attack, include the instructions for the meme, post seven strange or random facts about myself, and then pass the meme along to others. This… Continue Reading
In this story, Wal-Mart is absolutely, positively, in the right from a legal perspective. It’s not even a close case. Whe your health insurer pays your health care costs resulting from an injury, and that injury is proven to have… Continue Reading
One of the most irresponsible pieces of pseudoscience I have heard of recently is the refusal of parents to get vaccinations for their children because they fear that vaccinations will cause autism — a fear based on nothing but fear,… Continue Reading
It’s been about three weeks since the rain stopped and the grass started to grow again. The lawn service that we hired has not come back, probably because they weren’t paid, which was because they didn’t sent me an invoice… Continue Reading
At my age, it seems silly to be awoken in the middle of the night with scary dreams and then be unable to fall asleep again. Maybe it had something to do with going to bed earlier than usual. But… Continue Reading
“Let’s go walk to McDonald’s and get sundaes.” Thus did The Wife proposition me early this afternoon. You can address the cognitive dissonance of a walk to McDonald’s to get ice cream as a form of exercise at your leisure.… Continue Reading
So I go to the urologist’s office this morning. I make it a point to get there early because I know that as a new patient, I’ll have some extra paperwork to fill out with my medical history and insurance… Continue Reading