Hopeful Romantics

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With all this debate on healthcare reform and with much speculation about killing off grandma, I was reminded that more than 32,000 American adults take their lives every year.   That’s right; 32,000 Americans elect suicide, annually.   This may seem like a lot but when compared to other parts of the world, America falls somewhere in [...]

I have also quoted Ayaan Hirsi Ali.  Ali for the less informed Ali grew up in the draconian circumstances of her native Somalia where she was forced to endure genital mutilation and the ignominies of an arranged marriage.   She managed to flee to the Netherlands where she became a political activist and criticized Islam.  Among [...]

While everyone rants and raves on one side or the other about healthcare reform, little is said about one major contributing factor to the outrageous cost of healthcare.   Fat people.   I know it is a term that makes everyone flinch as it is no longer politically correct.   There are other terms to use instead, full [...]

I used to live in Texas.  I lived in Austin, and I lived in Houston.   I served, if that is the term, in the Army Corps of Engineers, defending Houston from the floods occurring from the torrential downpours and the sudden rising of  the rivers, bayous, and sloughs.    It was a different era, back when.   [...]