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Sadly, I have found that to be true. Some people get it. Sometimes when I mention that part of my life, all I get are blank stares denoting total lack of understanding or appreciation.

My skepticism may be related to being more right-brained than left-brained.

While it was a hellish decision, I was in more or less that situation with my mother before I finally realized that I did not have the skills she needed and that to keep her at home was just me being selfish and clinging to a past situation that no longer applied. Dad was gone and all of my...

Or "No man is an island."

Evidence? After 30 years? Hell, she can't even furnish good witnesses.

This year, my wife is going to officially go bonkers. I'll avoid the 'c' word. She is one of those people who like to decorate early. With her foot useless after surgery, probably until sometime in January, she KNOWS she can't put up her normal decorations and she knows I can't do it by...

I wish I could say I've been there, but for the last several years, we've been OK and my mother-in-law is in a nursing home literally across the street from a hospital emergency entrance. It was an incredible stroke of luck to get her in there and we know it. I can sympathize at least. I...

Is that the truth that says, "stuff happens?" (Actually, they are the truths of "suffering", "cause of suffering", "end of suffering", "path to the end of suffering.")

Cannot say. But her testimony was sketchy in many places. Poor testimony can be offset only so much. We will have to wait and see.

One of the reasons that I am not Doc, M.D., is because large amounts of blood make me nauseous. I saw a neighbor kid fall and cut his foot really badly when I was maybe 12 or 13. The blood was more than I could handle at the time. So I become a physical sciences Doc.

Life is suffering? Someone must have a TV that can only get infomercial channels.

While Marvel films have a wide following and I have been known to enjoy them a lot, I have a secret thing for animated feature films such as Shrek, Wreck-it Ralph, Robots, Kung Fu Panda, Ice Age, and How to Train Your Dragon and some of the sequels thereof. Not all animated features are...

The "good" side of the issue is that one of the qualifications to get on the Judiciary committee is that you must have been an active lawyer. Many members of the committee are ex-judges, ex-district attorneys, and defense lawyers. Therefore, they are full and well aware of the issues of due...

I've been accused of constantly being off, but then I was never a "big wheel" so no one ever noticed my eccentricity.

Usually, no. Throwing a gun doesn't usually happen. I'm surprised you brought that one up given that so many folks think everyone in the USA has a gun anyway. Why would I throw a gun to someone who probably has one already? But in fact, guns aren't THAT common over here despite the lurid...

Not going to make a prediction, but timing-wise, you have the cart before the horse. It is possible that if enough people dislike the result of today's hearings, the mid-terms won't go so well for the folks who took the unpopular side of the argument. The mid-terms will come after the...

Sounds vaguely like what we might call "junior college." We do kindergarten which isn't really a grade, then depending on to whom you are talking, we do 5 or 6 years of elementary school, 3 or 4 years of junior high, and 3 years of high school totaling 12 years. Many schools are on the 6-3-3...

I tend to be a skeptic. The only thing spooky about MOST New Orleans houses is that we are on ground that sometimes isn't so solid. As house foundations give just a little, the corners deviate slightly from "true" and that causes a lot of doors to want to open by gravity or by pressure caused...

Justifiable = self defense or defense of another. Excusable = not entirely sure since Bierce was being "literary" at the time. In general, if a young child finds a gun and shoots his playmate, the young child's actions are excusable due to his lack of mens rea and comprehension of his action...

FWIW, my doctor doesn't get upset about me when I pop 130/80 because he says at my age, that isn't unexpected. The fact that I pop lower more often than not makes him reasonably happy. Me too, since it means he doesn't talk about changing drugs. That's the worst part, because while he is (as...