Health and Welfare
Getting Old and it Bites
Thursday, September 20th, 2007Got my bifocals on Monday. Also got monovision contact lenses on Saturday. The contacts are set differently than normal lenses. The left eye is for close up vision. The right is for distance vision. That’s a little weird to get used to. Especially since the right lens isn’t the final prescription. These are just samples. [...]
Soylent Green Is People!
Thursday, March 24th, 2005Apologies for the overly dramatic headline, but that’s what I feel we’re trapped in these days. I’m simply stunned at our society’s rush to starve Terri, simply on the say so of her husband, whose motives could or could not be pure as the driven snow. As Rush often says, ‘follow the money’. Anyway, we’re [...]
Yet Another Reason Why the West is Mission Territory
Monday, January 31st, 2005Saw this story this morning and didn’t have time to blog it unfortunately. Had to get this in though. Germans Force Women Into Prostitution is the story. Man, Fric… There you go again. Making stuff up. Nope. Germany has some interesting laws and lack of laws concerning unemployment benefits and brothels. Brothels are legal in [...]
Fric Still has 10 Toes
Sunday, October 31st, 2004Yep. All 10. Why is this even a question? Well, my right foot lost a skirmish with a running lawn mower (thereby necessitating my return of my Mensa membership card) last Sunday afternoon. At the energency room when the shoe finally came off, I counted to 5 on that foot and was much relieved. So [...]