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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. – Covert Bailey Somewhere there is a semblance of an article about a fitness conference in Reno, Nevada and I somehow got…
“It’s not drinking alone if the dog is home.“ “There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens, you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens, you drink…
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the White moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion…
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too…. – Rudyard Kipling Why Republican Voters Think Americans Have to Get Over Jan. 6 By Patrick Healy and Adrian J. Rivera for The New…
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. – Paul Dudley White My run is a walk. Striding as smooth as I can. Slow but going fast. * Pace is a problem. So important not to fall. All pain is…
You claim to be the devil? You are nothing but my imposter; far less than a shadow. – Mecha Constantine Focus groups interest me. So, when I saw in The New York Times, January 6, 2022, a promise of insight by Patrick Healy and Lora Kelley, I was on it. The promise was nine American voters, all Democrats….
A quilt of many colors. White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. Greetings from behind the Red Curtain. When cable news…
To do what nobody else will do, in a way that nobody else can, in spite of all we go through, is to be a nurse. – Rawsi Williams, JD, BSN, RN, PhD I work as an ICU nurse. For the past two years I have “lived” in an N95 mask at work, except for…
We must remember that refugees are almost always people whose homes, family members, and everything they once loved and held dear are either destroyed or seriously at stake…They are simply trapped in a zone in which staying under such circumstances and swallowing humiliation in the “host” countries is unbearable; going home is impossible, because often…
But always – do not forget this… – always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on…