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I’ve decided the phrase “Smart Phone” is really an oxymoron. People generally look less than intelligent as they wander around with their faces stuck in their screens. How smart is it to use your “Smart Phone” to text while driving your car into a possible life ending accident.
Wonder why your prescriptions cost so much?
Links to tips to make your social media experience a little safer
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Not all things should use the capitalist/profit paradigm. One big one is pharmaceuticals. We are all already being taxed by excessive drug prices. Have the government support pharmaceutical research at the CDC and at various universities across the countries. They could aim their research dollars towards conditions most needed, rather than those that would bring in the most profit. Drugs could then be sold and manufactured for a reasonable profit, and not at prices inflated to “support R&D”.
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Can you imagine how much better a world this would be if folks cared for things that really matter as much as they do sports?
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Can you imagine how much better off we would all be if we gave up the myth that is the Horatio Alger story? We are all so concentrated on believing that we can go from rags to riches that we do not allow ourselves to invest in community wealth that would benefit us all.
As good as the play is it is but a hearty soup when compared to the book. Of course, at 1100 pages, some folks may consider the book a gluttonous meal. For this reader, in those 1100 pages, I found very few times that the book dragged.
The book is many things besides the story of Jean Valjean and company. At its heart it is a religious work. At the beginning of the 7th book of volume II, Hugo pens:
“This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite. Man is the second.”
With the story as the driver, Hugo interweaves history, philosophy, sociology, politics, religion and accounts of contemporary social norms and practices. Ultimately, it is a book about morality and self-sacrifice.
This is a story we all know well from the play and from the movies.
Jean Valjean is sentenced to the galleys, Continue reading “Les Misérables by Victor Hugo”
I have a hypothesis that is likely totally bogus, but I am running with it anyway. My supposition deals with older women and pets, particularly cats and especially small dogs. As a woman passes the age of fecundity, as she passes the period of child rearing she does not lose her mothering instinct, her need to nurture. Small dogs fulfill this role admirably. Small dogs are not so big as to overwhelm one, or so big that they take over the house. Small dogs are in most ways much easier to care for. They are frequently very loyal and loving to their primary care giver. Plus, many are as cute as the proverbial speckled pup under a red wagon. Another one of my hypotheses is that as the genders age, they become similar. I’m betting this one has a less of a chance of being bogus. One reason I think this is that you frequently see older men with small dogs. Perhaps they are walking them for their spouses. Continue reading “Pit Bull Christmas”