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Brought Tears to My Eyes

https://nypost.com/2018/04/03/stephen-hawkings-final-gift-was-an-easter-feast-for-the-homeless/ This has erased the last doubt in my mind over the question, “Was Stephen Hawking really a mensch?” Read it and tell me.

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How Was The Ketamine?

I thought you’d never ask. Ketamine. I had five treatments intravenously, dosed at 0.5 mg/kg initially. The plan was to gradually increase the dose, but my body didn’t like that (weird very uncomfortable muscle spasms). So we stayed with the initial dose. The treatments themselves turned out to be more of a chore than a vacation. My veins suck because, connective tissue badness. They are these…

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Sometimes people write to me. “Just checking to see if you’re OK…you haven’t been posting on your blog…” I really appreciate it! I know as well as you do what it can mean when a generally motor-mouth blogger goes silent. You’re right. I feel terrible. I can’t think. My imagination, usually fertile, is…somewhere. I don’t know where. I don’t know anything. I’m in The Pit. At the bottom. At least I…

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What Will They Say When We're Gone?

What Will They Say When We’re Gone?

https://painkills2.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/thinking-of-you-zondra-nash/ One year ago, several of us who blog in the “mental health, chronic illness and pain” sectors were anxiously asking one another if anyone had heard from Johnna, the author of the above-quoted blog. She hadn’t been heard from since the end of January. Not like her at all. I had had a growing uncomfortable feeling that…

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Treat Nazis Like You Treat Women

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CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity - The Washington Post

CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity – The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop&utm_term=.821fe9b36b55 And this is not becoming a police state? How can we stem this tide? Quickly! No time to lose. This is dead serious.

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Hanukkah Is Almost Here! In this time of incredible global turmoil, what we need is more LIGHT. Bring it down!

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A Deadly Drug Cocktail Shines a Light on an AstraZeneca Blockbuster - Bloomberg

A Deadly Drug Cocktail Shines a Light on an AstraZeneca Blockbuster – Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/a-deadly-drug-cocktail-shines-a-light-on-an-astrazeneca-blockbuster HEADS UP–Seroquel (quetiapine)+methadone= DEATH Please read and share this widely in your networks.  You may save a life!

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Bullshit Generator

http://www.bullshitgenerator.com/ This link brought to you as a public service. I deny everything.

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Cooking For Two

Last week I had to make a trip to Phoenix to see the cardiologist. Phoenix being the smouldering Valley of the Desert Smog that it is, I knew I’d have to be running the air conditioning non-stop, because this fancy sardine can that I live in concentrates heat like the dickens. I booked two nights in an RV park as close to downtown as I could get, figuring I’d leave Atina the Wonder Dog at “home”…

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Hugh and #MeToo

For me, innocence ended with my favorite uncle. He was my favorite because he was funny. Always cracking jokes. And he had a big fancy car, and he owned a music store and a giant color TV with a wooden console, and he let me play pool on his pool table that cost a zillion dollars and even ride the Vespa scooter around the neighborhood. One day the bubble burst. It was one of those Jewish holidays…

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Cartoon For Today "This person we're trying to poison, does he have any dietary restrictions?" ---The New Yorker

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Depression Comics Halloween

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Owner of a Loner Heart

It strikes me, the irony, that I should finally, at last, be free of the loneliness that has followed me like a black dog through my years–that it’s not permitted for me to simply enjoy the profound pleasure of being alone without being lonely. No, other things must rise to the surface and break the spell. I’ve not been well, the last few years. And I’ve had my share of grief and loss, and…

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What You See Is What You Get

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Abortion After 20 Weeks

A few days ago, I received an email from one of the many pro-choice organizations I follow. The email was in panic mode: “URGENT! Your signature needed! Our reproductive rights are being threatened again!” Two days ago, Congress passed a bill banning elective abortion after 20 weeks gestation. “Elective,” meaning not due to conditions dangerous to the mother (such as preeclampsia or eclampsia),…

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Something Doesn't Look Right

Something Doesn’t Look Right

When I travel in my van, which is all the time, I look for places to camp that are remote yet within a few miles of a town so that I can get cell coverage. I do go off the grid if I must, or if there is some draw like a gorgeous view to be had (and not shared witha cast of thousands of other campers). To find such locations, I employ a cluster of apps. These are a combination of crowd sourced…