TheWorx

I just got back from my new cardiologist--not that I need a specialist but, heck, the insurance co-pay is no more for a specialist. I left my old one, an Indian, because he doubled my medication "malpractically." [relax, oh great one, I'm not presently suing). My new doctor is a Jew as I thought it was time to change to a doctor that would not automatically put you into a lesser caste (so long as you were all paid up, of course). Anyway, it turns out I was wrong about anticipating any kind of better treatment from my second doctor. Here's what happened. Looking at my last lab results, he asked me if my cholesterol numbers were being treated with statins. I said I didn't have any faith in the purported benefits of statins. He then asked me smugly if I had gone to medical school because, "no matter how much I thought I knew, I could never know as much as he." That may be true but there's a little known caveat that medical specialists simply ignore and,...

I sign up and read many activist sites/articles. The following site was sent to my email address. bravenewfilms We are told it shows "Tom Hayden, Dolores Huerta, Carl Pope, Bonnie Raitt, and Pete Seeger in one-on-one conversations with the next generation of progressive stars like Majora Carter, Van Jones, Naomi Klein, Ava Lowery, and Anthony Romero." The email then asks that we vote for our personal at civic heros I thought about this for a moment and felt really dejected. First, for the paucity of easily-recognized big heros and, secondly, for the slow and piecemeal progress that we have in this country. Of those old generation heros, I only know Pete Seeger (I think he is responsible for helping to clean up the Hudson River). Is global-warming Gore a hero? How about Richard Gere or how about the Pitts? Why do activists spend decades of their lives trying to accomplish good. Nader, Seeger. It doesn't have to be this way. We can have a forum where ordinary joes like you...

I asked my neighbor, who worked in our municipality as a building inspector, to ask the Mayor's office about a job I had applied for. It was not my intention to ask him to get me that job. Hell, he had only been ON the job less than a month. I had merely asked him to inquire about the job; basically, to ask the mayor the status of the hiring. My neighbor never got back to me. I figured that the mayor, after hearing that I was involved, told my neighbor to stay away from me for I was anti-mayor. It is true, I had had several letters-to-the-editor published in the local paper but they weren't political-they involved my children and I felt the major had been depriving the kids of a bigger high school in order to keep taxes down. I don't know about your state government but in New Jersey the state Dept of Personnel is not empowered to stop cronyism. Here, municipalities can hire whom they want and there are "ways around it."

Hey, look back on all major accomplishments in this country. Washington allowed us passage onto the new road, Lincoln said unity above all (would that Eastern Europe would feel the same), Roosevelt kept us solvent and sent our sons to abolish evil, Kennedy put us on the Moon. The message for all of our leaders is to embrace the shining star that calls out from the night. Focus on that which we, by our lonesome, pitiful selves, cannot accomplish. I call upon the candidates to give us something to tackle with our every being. There is always something that will bend to our will if it is moral and just. Pick something from the platform and "make it happen," but make it moral and just and worthy of the first paragraph.

I had heard that Mayor Bloomberg had admitted to pot smoking and to enjoying it. So it was that I breathed a sigh of relief for the pot users of New York that had put up with the likes of that "Roman" Giuliani and his draconian drug policies. Now, I hear that the hypocrite Bloomberg has jailed more marijuana users than the skull-headed Giuliani and he's got two more years to go! You never know a good thing till something worse comes along! What's odd to me is that the Blacks and Latinos have the leadership to end their harassment by the police but their leadership is a no-show when it comes to the lowly pot smoker. They only get involved with the high profile media cases where the cops shoot first. I can understand why they don't want to give the impression to White America that their people are--God forbid--users of a stigmatized recreational drug like pot which robs them of their "get up and go," their "rise to the American dream, thou sluggard...