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»» On this day in 1970 President Nixon signed a bill into law banning cigarette ads on radio and TV.

I'd forgotten that one was his. Good old super-conservative Nixon.

Just watched again the Doctor Who featuring Nixon. It was not a bad portrayal of him, not demeaning. Nixon was played more as deer-in-the-headlights than the usual devious & scowling fiend. And it was pretty funny when, as part of the plot, the Dr tells Dick he has to tape everything. And, finally, tells him, you'll always be remembered; that was kind-of sad.

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Morning, Glories. Pray today that truth will out.

and while we're on the subject of superstition, my tl;dr brought on the morning thread. Consistent results prove its true!

FDA Orders Recall of Placebos Because They May Work

Recycled 'humor' from days ago. I think Ben and Vic both did it. ha. ha.

First, nothing that funny about tainted goods, no matter if it's homeopathy, Big Pharm, or dog food from China, and no matter how you want to laugh at supposed irony.

Second, for whatever anecdotal experience is worth, I've had more complications from standard medical practices, seen more damage done, and far less cure, than I've seen with homeopathy. I'm from Missouri (or close to) but what I've seen is persuasive that more is going on than mere placebo. Especially if going by cost-effectiveness!!

Some may just blindly "believe in" their med choices. Some of us choose to be guinea pigs, you're welcome. I know the risks. I want the truth. Our freedom to be dumb, right? Let those who do no beer or coffee cast stones.

One of my big concerns is that, as with the war on users of some substances, self-proclaimed 'conservatives' who snark at homeopathy will stand around chucking with hands in their pockets when the government starts trying to squash homeopathy for the sake of Big Pharm. "And then they fame for me."

Homeopathy has the same problem as liberty. They sound too much, respectively, like homo and lib.

/screed

Writhing Shades of Ghey interpretive Cool Whip-wrestling 'ettes ... is this the best place on the web or what?

Even better than Sefton milking his cat on the early thread.

» Well like I said, i WANT to roll around in Farrow's failures like a big tub of Cool Whip. Unfortunately I cannot, as that is merely a simile and cannot take physical form.
-MWR

Photoshopped it is, then...

I never heard of this Farrow fellow except through here. One off the bene's of disconnecting from the LaughingStock Media.

"I want to roll around in Farrow's failures like they're a big tub of Cool Whip."
-MWR

Surely slow-on-the-draw me am not the first to point to the style guide and say, "Pix, or...."

Puting Interested In Finland?

Possibilities:

Puting - poo-ting - digestive distress

Puting - typo for putting, but I didn't think King Barry was all that interested in Finland.

Puting - short for computing, Finland to replace India as tech help call center nexus.

Maybe some other explanation I'm missing?

"Can God make a rock buffet than he can lift?"

Oh, how I love autoincorrect, let me count the ways.

Rock buffet ... with extra kaboom

"...it might be better to pray (if one is a Christian praying person, I mean) that she is healed and comes to repent of her sins, experience a real Christian conversion and is filled with the fruit of the spirit."
—FenelonSpoke

I'm all for it, but my inner cynic, for some reason, is reminded of the old conundrum, can God make a rock buffet than he can lift?

Lately, I've been pondering the Spirit of Truth. What is it/he/she up to? In a world so deeply infected by the Prince of Lies, with untruths being what the public mostly gets, seems t'me a lot more Truth would be helpful. Mr Jesus, could we crank up the SoT to 11sies, please?

"Let me walk with me":
—FenelonSpoke

Isn't this Obama's theme song?

Eraser challenge pull quotes:

"What I found out was kids were sharing erasers, so as they broke the skin they were passing the eraser off to somebody else, body fluids being shared...."

Health education!

"They were like, 'Oh it stings so bad,' but they just kept going,"

Endurance training!

See? Educational!

"It's happening all over.... What concerns me is that kids see something and they try it because of peer pressure."

Entirely new with this generation; never happened before.

I want to see someone combine the cinnamon and eraser challenges... while doing parkour.

Wow. Yesterday I'm up & at'em at 4. Today I'm groggy at the 6am alarm. Sudden onset of Spring Fever?

Early or late, morning, Glories. Now to the joyous reading of the many magnificent challenges we shall rise to. Like the heartbreak of dangling participles.

20 years ago

Two years into the Clinton era.

CompuServe for a few. Web was unknown.

Before cells. Only recently able to own your own hardwired.

Before 9/11. Before OKC Murrow... barely.

Seems like centuries ago.

» On this day in 1981, President Reagan was shot....
—BornLib

First comment I heard, tru storie: "The assassin only used a .22??"

If only Pores Murgan had been around... um.. something witty here.. I'm out of coffee, and accidentally read some of Morgan's sign-off earlier today. Bad mix.

Morning, Glories.

Nood with no news is good gnus?

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Twenty years ago today, we drove out of Uptown Chicago with three preadolescent kids and truck full of worldly goods, heading for a new life in rural-ish Oklahoma.

When Sefton talks about the good & bad of NYC, this adopted Chicago son appreciates both. Dearly miss the good, although a lot is 'good old days,' gone now, including my M-i-L St. 'Bubby.' Milady has deep roots there, and it's where all my children were born, and where our new little family enjoyed home, neighbors, parks, beaches, museums, air shows, food faires, fireworks from the top of the Hancock, Greek Islands so often our daughter was treated like family (they insisted she would become their lawyer!), and most importantly, much extended family. Milady's clan was close and joyous, lots of cousins.

No regrets about the move per se. We did it all wrong. We still haven't fully recovered, haven't really established ourselves as we had been in the Big Potato. At this point, maybe we never will. I wish I'd had the wisdom then that I gleaned from failures. I wish we'd been able to unpack all our books! Life got... smaller, but much more complicated.

Still, I suppose, just like becoming a parent, if we'd waited until we were ready, we'd probably still be there. None of the now-adult kids seems anxious to swim back upstream to live in their spawning ground. Or vote Regressive. So, there's that.

And if I were there, this fuzzy yellow kitty would have walked up on an empty house: instead he's in my lap. That, too. Plus exciting 4am coyote howls:

http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=348218#c21965143

» Ace really needs to give you [Vic] a set of keys!
—Hrothgar

I would worry about Vic becoming one of the Cob Elite then. All high and mighty like. Forgetting that he was once among us proles. Lose his edge....

OTOH, if we could only give Vic a RL banhammer.... woot!

Don't forget the ol' long-eared Bassett snoring on the porch.

I never did learn that olde wisdom about give advice only when asked. Nor the Chinese adage about not giving advice because you'll be responsible for the outcome if they take it.

There's the flip side, remaining quiet when you might have just the clue someone needed to hear. Knowledge behooves us to transmit it if It might be worthwhile, if we are inspired to live a life of service to our fellows.

Seems there has to be a balance somewhere in between. Probably would require wisdom and graciousness, two qualities of which I've never been accused of having an overabundance.

Well, Carol, maybe it's not for you. I like to try what doesn't involve surgery and drugs first, if possible. Then, if it doesn't work, no great loss.

Brooks says, he just wishes folks would come see me before they go on fir surgery; sometimes after, he can't undo the damage. Tried to get Mom in to Brooks. years ago after she had a blow to the head and developed typical symptoms of Atlas mis-alignment. Instead of just going to find out first, she had a vertebrae snipped in the spanking new spinal surgery hospital with the bestest spinal surgeons. Did not a damn thing for her, but no money back guarantees with the butchers and drug peddlers unless you get litigious, of course. Mom listened to the "smart" kids who dissed Brooks without researching him. The same ones who voted twice for O'tyranny.

Pain free beats pain management.

I sure do find myself cringing in anticipation of blowback on med thoughts. (Good I didn't bring up homeopathy, eh?)

I don't claim anything but my own experience, and experience has shown that my perceived evaluation of my experiences is dubious.

Why I usually prefer to lightly joke, preferably pun. Makes people groan, but rarely incites a flame war.