The Second Step of Alcoholics Anonymous explains why I’ve become a bit silent as a blogger of late.  The step says simply:  “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”  Of late, I’ve been feeling off-center, dis-eased, and this emotional imbalance has been fueled by rage and a focus on [...]

It started innocuously enough with The Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour Almost 50 major stars of movies, records, stage, screen and television got their start on this series. This is the show that made the “gong” famous as well as “the wheel of fortune” and the phrase: “round’ and ’round she goes, and where [...]

I’ve decided I want to look like I’ve never had a care in my life.  Not a worry.  I want to be blank, like Cher.     I want to be bland, and boring, and expressionless.  That way, I can scare myself on a daily basis.
 Kidding.  Really.  Just trying to figure out the links and code stuff [...]

So my Mama said yesterday that she is gonna be quiet for a while at her blog Journeys with Jood but Sumo said I should still blog on Fridays here so I guess that means I am a Siren Crinckle too but I’m still just a toddler. I’m two and I can say that [...]

August 18, 1963, James Meredith gradutated from The University of Mississippi with a degree in History. That doesn’t sound very impressive by itself, because plenty of people graduate from Ole Miss. However, James Meredith is black. He was the first Black student to graduate from this former bastion of segregation.
Meredith had applied to the University [...]

SCHIP, or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, is a state-and-federal program that successfully provides medical insurance to children whose families cannot afford insurance, and who do not qualify for other programs, such as Medicaid. But the program is in trouble. The AMA is worried that the Senate may move to strip the Medicare physician [...]

I have to interrupt this blog to report that my beloved Chicago Cubs are 1/2 a game out of first place, and it’s August. Maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s finally our year!
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Sumo told me about this article at Alternet called Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren’t Listening. Johann Hari, the reporter, set simple ground rules for himself when he booked himself as a guest on the National Review’s annual cruise for Conservatives. He had one rule for himself:
If [...]

A US Court of Appeals, in its infinite wisdom arrogant stupidity,has ruled that terminally ill people do not have the right to get unapproved, potentially lifesaving treatments even when doctors determine that this path might be their best hope for survival. Since the drugs aren’t approved by the FDA yet, and are still experimental, [...]

pol·i·tic(pol-i-tik)
adj.
1. Using or marked by prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; artful.
2. Using, displaying, or proceeding from policy; judicious: a politic decision.
3. Crafty; cunning.
I grew up in Chicago. I grew up a Democrat with Independent, Liberal overtones in Chicago. I was an activist, and a campaign worker for Democratic Congressman Abner J. Mikva who taught me a [...]

Bill Wilson and Ebby Thatcher
Alcoholics Anonymous has been called “the most significant phenomenon in the history of ideas in the twentieth century.” (from the introduction, The Spirituality of Imperfection by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham)
On a chill, rainy afternoon in November 1934, two men sat catercorner at the kitchen table of a brownstone house in [...]