Batting a head continually against anything causes the brain to waffle back and forth inside the skull. This can cause bruising, and repeated bruising can cause brain damage. I get it. What I’m not clear on is why we are having congressional hearings about the situation. We struggle with making …
Yanking My Chain This Week
Not even a public option here, despite from 2000 to 2007, profits at the 10 largest publicly-traded health insurance companies went up 428 percent. CEOs at these companies made an average of $11.9 million in 2007. In the past nine years, health insurance premiums have more than doubled—a rate three …
Freedom Of Speech Compensates for Seldom Used the Freedom of Thought, and Other Expostulations
My Tuesday tankful of tidbits and annoyances. 1. Thanks to an anonymous tipster, who for some unknown reason was looking up wonderlandornot/images, I discovered my old Flickr account, titled wonderlandornot. The contents are meager — a couple of shots from Oahu in 2006. I can’t access the account, because it …
Distracted From When We Were Psychos, William Calley Apologizes
In a rare, if ever, interview, former Army lieutenant William Calley, who was convicted on 22 counts of murder for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, sort of apologized for the first time last week, at a Columbus, Georgia, Kiwanis Club where he was speaking. “In March 1968, U.S. soldiers …
A Burning Ring of Fire
Sambuca is flammable. Stuart Feltham, a young British man, found this out when, allegedly, after inappropriately touching, and possibly exposing his genitals to Marina Fanouraki at a night club on Crete, he got Sambuca thrown on him, and ended up in flames. (Brit Stuart Feltham’s genitals set on fire on …
