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ronniecat's journal
Monday, April 24, 2006
It's time. The last post to this blog was 11 months ago.
While I initially intended to keep my blog about my hearing loss and cochlear implant free of politics and other unrelated ephemera, confining them to this blog instead, there just isn't enough time to update hearing/loss and this blog too. And since hearing/loss has a small but dedicated following of about 40-50 visitors a day, that's where my efforts go, leaving this to sit like a mute testament to my over-busy life. As a result, I'm officially closing off this blog with this post. I'll leave my past musings up for the time being, but friends and the curious passer-by who gets this far can find out what is really going on in my current life at hearing/loss. See you there...
ronnie
While I initially intended to keep my blog about my hearing loss and cochlear implant free of politics and other unrelated ephemera, confining them to this blog instead, there just isn't enough time to update hearing/loss and this blog too. And since hearing/loss has a small but dedicated following of about 40-50 visitors a day, that's where my efforts go, leaving this to sit like a mute testament to my over-busy life. As a result, I'm officially closing off this blog with this post. I'll leave my past musings up for the time being, but friends and the curious passer-by who gets this far can find out what is really going on in my current life at hearing/loss. See you there...
ronnie
Monday, May 30, 2005
A sobering thought on this Memorial Day.
"Arlington West" is a grassroots memorial project for soldiers killed in the current Iraq war.
Each cross represents an American soldier killed in Iraq.
This is just a small fraction of the crosses, of course. As of Memorial Day, 2005 - and it is not yet midnight - 1661 American men and women, 181 other soldier members of the "Coalition of the Willing", and untold numbers of Iraqi men, women and children have died in this conflict, conceived in deceit, fed at the teat of diversion and obfuscation, and growing healthier daily on a diet of lies, rewritten history and hubris.
And not that we ever really remember or care, but
ronnie
"Arlington West" is a grassroots memorial project for soldiers killed in the current Iraq war.
Each cross represents an American soldier killed in Iraq.
This is just a small fraction of the crosses, of course. As of Memorial Day, 2005 - and it is not yet midnight - 1661 American men and women, 181 other soldier members of the "Coalition of the Willing", and untold numbers of Iraqi men, women and children have died in this conflict, conceived in deceit, fed at the teat of diversion and obfuscation, and growing healthier daily on a diet of lies, rewritten history and hubris.
And not that we ever really remember or care, but
ronnie
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Tom Cruise to the Rescue.
Shocking me. I've been spending all my time on my other weblog, http://www.hearingloss.blogspot.com.
And yet, some things shock you out of your personal stupor. For example, something I read today in The Guardian diary:
"Tom Cruise takes to the US airwaves to give his thoughts on a new book by Brooke Shields, in which the actress discusses how a course of drugs cured her crushing post-natal depression. Now, normally there is a fork in the road where one has to decide whether to be a movie actor or an eminent neuroscientist, but the great thing with being a Scientologist like Tom is that you can do both. 'These drugs are dangerous,' he explains to NBC viewers. 'When you talk about postpartum, you can take people today, women, and what you do is you use vitamins. There is a hormonal thing that is going on, scientifically, you can prove that. But when you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that. You can use vitamins to help a woman through those things.'
What a mind."
What more can I add? None more.
ronnie
Shocking me. I've been spending all my time on my other weblog, http://www.hearingloss.blogspot.com.
And yet, some things shock you out of your personal stupor. For example, something I read today in The Guardian diary:
"Tom Cruise takes to the US airwaves to give his thoughts on a new book by Brooke Shields, in which the actress discusses how a course of drugs cured her crushing post-natal depression. Now, normally there is a fork in the road where one has to decide whether to be a movie actor or an eminent neuroscientist, but the great thing with being a Scientologist like Tom is that you can do both. 'These drugs are dangerous,' he explains to NBC viewers. 'When you talk about postpartum, you can take people today, women, and what you do is you use vitamins. There is a hormonal thing that is going on, scientifically, you can prove that. But when you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that. You can use vitamins to help a woman through those things.'
What a mind."
What more can I add? None more.
ronnie
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Stupidest thing said so far during the Oscar awards pre-show:
Introducing a question to Orlando Bloom, an interviewer says, "Now, before you were a movie star, you were a serious actor..."
I'm sure Orlando appreciated the endorsement for his recent work.
ronnie
Introducing a question to Orlando Bloom, an interviewer says, "Now, before you were a movie star, you were a serious actor..."
I'm sure Orlando appreciated the endorsement for his recent work.
ronnie
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Once again, I must apologize for my delinquency in updating this weblog. I'm a busy cat these days, and the little time I have to blog is spent updating the hearing/loss blog.
However, with the debate over gay marriage raising its ugly head again, I reckon I'll be back here soon. Paul Martin is sticking to his guns and threatening an election on the issue. The "antis" may be vocal, but polls show they are still in a slim minority.
We've built a 21st Century democracy on defending minority rights. I don't think we're going to fall down on this one.
ronnie
However, with the debate over gay marriage raising its ugly head again, I reckon I'll be back here soon. Paul Martin is sticking to his guns and threatening an election on the issue. The "antis" may be vocal, but polls show they are still in a slim minority.
We've built a 21st Century democracy on defending minority rights. I don't think we're going to fall down on this one.
ronnie
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Latest dispatch from cloud cuckoo land, via Salon.com's "War Room".
"The Associated Press has just reported that Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resigned Tuesday. According to the initial three-paragraph wire story, here's why Ashcroft decided to leave:
"The Associated Press has just reported that Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resigned Tuesday. According to the initial three-paragraph wire story, here's why Ashcroft decided to leave:
'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved,' Ashcroft wrote in a five-page, handwritten letter to Bush."
ronnie
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
You've got to feel sorry for the folks at SorryEverybody.com. I've never seen such earnest apologies. You don't know whether to laugh or cry. (I did a bit of both.)
There's still a lot of good, good people in America. I hope that when those tolerant, outward-looking Americans take back their country, its relationship with the rest of the world doesn't take too long to repair.
But look at these good people. Things are going to get better.
ronnie
There's still a lot of good, good people in America. I hope that when those tolerant, outward-looking Americans take back their country, its relationship with the rest of the world doesn't take too long to repair.
But look at these good people. Things are going to get better.
ronnie
