Tuesday, March 11, 2003`No, Doc! It's the Other Leg' - National Patient Safety Awareness WeekYou might want to read this information - it comes from PR Newswire, which means there's an agency with a vested interest in getting you to use its services. In this instance, the agency with the vested interest is the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Of course,... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 6:03 AM Comments (0) (link) Monday, March 10, 2003Pay my tuition, indeed! :)I typed the smilie into the title because I didn't want that remark to be taken seriously. What I do want you to take seriously is that I'm attempting to pay for a house through Blogging Network profits. Not solely BN profits, mind you - I do earn interest on a number of banking instruments, and I... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 11:56 AM Comments (0) (link) Sunday, March 9, 2003Thanks, Editormum!Editormum has written something I agree with wholeheartedly. Evidently, she's having some trouble with someone who insists on saying "Hi Beautiful!" to her every time he meets up with her. I can't blame her - this would make me profoundly uncomfortable as well. This strikes me as an unnecessarily... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 2:54 PM Comments (0) (link) For Sprint FON Group stockholdersJust in case some of you might be affected by this, I picked this little tidbit up off the journalist's area of PR Newswire. Yes, it is a PR statement issued by the law firm handling the case mentioned in the story. Contact them if you have any questions or you feel you might be affected. HARTFORD,... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 12:29 PM Comments (0) (link) Saturday, March 8, 2003First Person Plural is one of the better accounts of Dissociative Identity Disorder I have read. At the time this book begins, Cameron West was working in the business he and his brother inherited from their late father. He is battling the latest in a series of debilitating sinus infections, and it... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 7:27 AM Comments (0) (link) Friday, March 7, 2003Book Review:Holy Blood, Holy GrailThe authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert in this volume that they found a connection between the Merovingian bloodline - apparently the source bloodline for several historic European royal families - and Jesus Christ Himself. Furthermore, they assert that in order to make this even minimally... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 9:40 PM Comments (0) (link) Book Review: Codependent No MoreMelody Beattie is herself codependent. At the time she wrote this book, she was just recently divorced from her alcoholic ex-husband, raising a boy and a girl and on welfare. She wrote Codependent No More as a way of helping others in circumstances similar to hers, so that they might cope more... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 9:30 PM Comments (0) (link) Book review: The Gnostic GospelsElaine Pagels is a professor of religion at an Ivy League university. The Gnostic Gospels is her first publication for a popular audience, to my knowledge. At this point, it is necessary for me to admit something. I had never heard of the subject of The Gnostic Gospels before I bought this book at... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 8:55 PM Comments (0) (link) Book review: The least-great story ever soldI bought this book at a Chicago-area Borders, thinking I'd actually learn something. Instead, I felt a degree of frustration I can't express. The author of this book doesn't know the meaning of the phrase "academic rigor" or "proper research." In browsing through her bibliography, I noted that mixed... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 7:41 AM Comments (0) (link) Net-censoring software ought to be bannedThis, to me, is the worst thing in the world schools and communities at large can do for kids. Why? I feel kids get cheated out of legitimate research opportunities just because we are afraid of being offended. Let us suppose that my daughter wishes to go to the local public library to research... Sign in to see full entry.posted by kidnykid at 7:25 AM Comments (0) (link) |
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