Category Archives: About a Bitch

He Was Making a What?

It’s been a difficult-to-absorb couple weeks of news—bombings, suicides, explosions, murders and more murders—and one of those make-you-cringe news stories was this one in North Carolina: For Jordan Arwood, the images return in waves. A wall of dirt collapsing and … Continue reading

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Added to Medical Vocabulary…

levoscoliosis: “levo” = left; scoliosis: Curvature of the spine ["Scoliosis"]. subluxation, spinal: Subluxation: A partial dislocation of a joint ["Subluxation"]. hypertrophic [as in "mild hypertrophic changes"]/hypertrophy: The increase in size which takes place in an organ as the result of an increased … Continue reading

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WWGBS? Super Bowl Edition

pic from Banzai Bill White via Facebook 1. Don’t come up in my house wearing any NFL/Super Bowl whatever-the-fuck-number-it-is shirts, hats, scarves, earrings, etc. [Saintswear excepted.] Take it off at the curb or I will start talking and not stop until … Continue reading

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WTMF?

WHO is teaching middle school and high school students that “high school” is ONE word? I thought it was just some of the un- and underprepared students I had but I was wrong. Whoever you all are, and you know … Continue reading

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One of the lesser known symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a sense of a foreshortened future. They may feel that they will not live long enough to experience certain milestones within a normal life cycle…. Children with PTSD … Continue reading

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Great, Just Great

FDA to require lower recommended dosages for sleep drugs. WashingtonPost.com, 1/10/2013. The new edict will affect the labeling of drugs that contain zolpidem, a widely used ingredient in sleep aids. FDA officials settled on the new rules after driving simulations … Continue reading

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Toxic Asset

Toxic asset is a popular term for certain financial assets whose value has fallen significantly and for which there is no longer a functioning market, so that such assets cannot be sold at a price satisfactory to the holder. The … Continue reading

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G Bitch at UNO, Wednesday

I’m one of the “gurus.” Odd word choice but what else can you do when you can’t put “bitch” on a flyer and paste it all over a college campus. The focus is this Opinionater post by Stanley Fish.

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I’ll Say This Again, Too

The purpose of government is not to guarantee profit.

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Ouch [update]

I wake up sore, like I overdid 3 workouts, and only less tired, a matter of degrees, than I did when I collapsed into bed. Heat helps some, mostly because it feels comforting and is a distraction. I scramble for … Continue reading

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