PLEASE vaccinate your kids. Untreated children can suffer brain infection or pneumonia or put newborns at risk. There are measles cases south and north of us. Ten states have now reported measles outbreaks since the *beginning* of the year. A refusal to vaccinate is hoping for ‘herd immunity’; not much use when all are refusing…
Letters
Letter: Leaving no tern un-stoned
This is not an article about marijuana. The title just got me thinking about someone who leaves no stone unturned in his or her relentless effort to right a wrong. The joke – and play on words – concerns ‘scientists’ who, wanting to study the effects of cannabis on birds – terns specifically – got […]
2018; The Year In… A Few
JBLM turns 100. It has survived two world wars and a police action or two and a few BRAC panels. I’ve spent many a night in those rickety North Fort barracks. They were built for the second war to end all wars which were intended to be destroyed antebellum; says the Pentagon… ‘nuh-uh’. Kids gave […]
How Cool is That?
How cool is that? In this busy Christmas shopping season, who gets reserved priority parking, right by the main entrance? Yep, those who drive a pickup. 🙂
Letter: Human Wreckage
What I thought I saw I hoped I didn’t see but as it turned out it was what I feared the most. I was first to see it.
Letter: Down the drain – addictive products and, sadly, the people – including governments – who consume them
Submitted by David Anderson. “One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination” (The Economist?, volume 411, number 8891). Now, those same sewers are increasingly clogged with cannabis growers’ waste products. […]
Letter; Giving meaning to the menial, homeless take note
Submitted by David Anderson. “Eighty-two tasks to complete for each apartment. Push the coat hangers to the left side of the sliding closet. Make sure the shower head isn’t set to ‘massage’ mode. Set the TV to input 2. She does the same 82 things all day every day. Monday through Friday, 410 tasks in […]
Letter: Plan your work and work your plan – why the homeless will stay that way
Submitted by David Anderson. At first it seemed the normal console containing a computer keyboard. However, it was hooked into a voice synthesizer that could comprehend over ten thousand verbal commands, make the appropriate reply, do your research, and actually carry on a conversation. “Sound effects, imitate animals, sing – though not too well – […]
Letter: My wife is ‘unremarkable’
Submitted by David Anderson. The head of the Oncology department was reviewing on the big screen monitor the positron emission tomography (PET Scan) image results taken of my wife from nearly head to toe.