Reaction to Random Catalysts

My work place today provide health screenings. I took advantage. Mostly, I wanted to know how I was doing in my cholesterol battle upon putting a statin drug aside and taking garlic supplements and a copper-zinc supplement. From about five months ago, the overall cholesterol was slightly up--right... Sign in to see full entry.

There should be no place in sports reports for what I heard this morning.... namely, that Canucks' fans, disappointed and angered at the outcome of last night's final hockey game of the Stanley Cup, rioted in the streets, turned over vehicles, stabbed people, jumped from bridges. Seventeen years... Sign in to see full entry.

Once again, President Obama displayed his arrogant, elitist ignorance. He observed ATMs and the kiosks at the airports. Those take away jobs, he said. Okay, why don't we take away the backhoe; that must have taken away some jobs when it was first invented. Better yet, let's take away the original,... Sign in to see full entry.

"No tax cuts for the rich! No tax cuts for the rich!" That's a familiar chant among the liberal political activists. It reveals how much they believe in socialism, how they totally regard all capitalists as thieves. Implicit in these chants is that the tax moneys are the people's money and that any... Sign in to see full entry.

I have encountered an account of yet another layer of the Nazis' evil a s I have been reading The Zoo Keeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman, In this book, I read about how the Nazis were obsessed with the pure, perfect ancient European animal species and were committed to breeding animals to get back to... Sign in to see full entry.

Not too well developed yet is an idea that came to me relating to my embrace of capitalism as a most dynamic positive force in our living lives and at the same time my favor of compassion and connection to the bohemian type. The idea is still shaping, so I won't go into much detail right now. But... Sign in to see full entry.

One way or another, we are often annoyed by the so-called sports experts in sports analysis. There is a common odd mixture. There is the ex-athlete who just one too many times had his bell rung or his head hit by a ball. Then there is the skinny, geekish type who has never stepped into athletic... Sign in to see full entry.

An argument was raised by the political right about the healthcare mandate that it is unconstitutional, because a mandate would require that all are participants in the system, and, hence, a person just "sitting around" is not participating. However, research has just come out that the "sedentary... Sign in to see full entry.

Today marked Les Paul's 96th birthday, and Google plucked and picked on the occasion. The computer user was treated to a logo in the shape of a strange guitar that roughly formed the letters for "Google." Further, the user could play a tune by moving the cursor across the strings. A radio station I... Sign in to see full entry.

Four days ago when I was at work, I felt very achy. I had awakened at three thirty in the morning and could not fall back to sleep, so I thought maybe I was mostly just tired. However, I did notice chest congestion, so I took regular cough medicine at night. I was wiped out that night and in the... Sign in to see full entry.