Most of you know that I have Crohn’s disease. Currently, I am doing fine; but there are times when I don’t have nearly enough spoons.
For anybody who has or knows somebody with health issues, this description my help explain what it’s like.
my thanks to Benze of http://benzeknees.wordpress.com for leading me to this post.
A little while ago, my husband, John, nearly made me vomit.
That’s no easy task, as I have a really strong stomach — it makes up for my shittier lower GI system.
Did he make an unappealing meal? Drive around curves like a maniac? Take me out on a boat in choppy water?
Nope.
He read the news today (oh boy). And he felt compelled to share. That’s when I got nauseous.
Maybe I need to back up here.
You don’t know this, but John loves the theater. Drama. Shakespeare. Comedies. He loves to go to plays. He has, in fact, penned a couple of them himself. But he hates, hates, hates, musicals (with the notable exception of Les Miserables).
So today, after reading the news, he informed me that we have to go see a new musical that will be coming to Broadway.
I was immediately suspicious — once again proving that I am smarter than the average bear. It had to be different from the usual musical fare to get John’s interest.
And different, this musical certainly is. The musical that John wants to see on Broadway is called
It is the rags to riches story of the Duck Dynasty folks. On Broadway. The cost of barf bags will no doubt be included in the ticket price.
First, however, it will play the Rio, the Las Vegas theater where the Chippendales normally perform (with significantly less unsightly hair). Because, you know. Vegas.
Is it too much to ask that this group of hyper/pseudo Christians will have a special audience?
Image from Wonkette (http://wonkette.com/519284/rand-paul-aide-has-cunning-plan-to-stop-gay-marriage-seeks-lions-willing-to-devour-him)
Lions would do nicely, thank you very much.
Am I the only one who simply doesn’t understand the fascination with these vile humans?
I bet Maria Von Trapp would puke, too. NY Times Photo:
Credit Zach Dilgard/A&
One of my tasks as a fake medical expert, is to keep folks in my company apprised of new scientific developments, studies and trends. So I scour the news first thing and point out interesting, informative articles.
It’s a part of my job that I relish because it often gives me terrific ways to terrorize my relatives with news of horrible diseases that pose a 1:1,583,222,185 chance of killing them and everybody in their town. Can you say “Ebola”? Sure, I knew you could.
Some days, though, I hit the jackpot. Like today, when I read a fascinating piece in the Washington Post.
Not only was it way more informative than any political piece penned and published in our nation’s capitol’s hometown paper, but it contained video.
After watching this educational video four or five times, I noticed that there was a followup video that I had to watch.Now you have to watch it too.
Thanks, Washington Post, for shedding light on at least one stinking thing. Maybe next election cycle, you can uncover the stink in the GOP.
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It was while commenting on Doobster’s post, Art Imitating Life or Life Imitating Art, that I realized that the unthinkable had happened. It’s true.
Doobster made me look back, and I thought of the men in my past.
George.
And George.
And Ronnie.
Now I find myself looking back fondly. Longing for Dick.*
I’m gonna be sick. Google, why’d you do this to me?
I wish I were kidding.
Often, I’ve realized that if the GOP hadn’t gone completely over the edge into fanaticism, that I’d be a Republican.
Google Me This
Because, you see, I remember when Republicans were not crazy. When they were a valuable part of the strong government that built our country into the envy of the world.
When they were not out only to protect their rich buddies. When they knew how to govern.
When they could compromise. More importantly, when compromise was the goal, because they knew that THAT is how government works. And good government works for everybody.
I remember the wonderful things that were done in the 1970s — Environmental laws, highways funded, bridges built. Government FUCKING WORKED.
But starting with Reagan, the image makers changed the face of government – remember:
Reagan put folks into Cabinet positions who didn’t believe in government. The Energy and Education Departments were led by folks whose job was to destroy the agencies. The Environmental Protection Administration was led by Anne Gorsuch who didn’t promulgate the regulations that she had to — by law — promulgate. People were put into levels of responsibility to thwart the laws they were supposed to administer.
So yes, I am sitting here looking back through history and realizing that the GOP has, in leaps and bounds, ensured that government doesn’t work. [I’ve said for years, why do people want to elect folks to government who don’t’ believe in government? What is the fucking point of that?]
It was compounded by George H.W. and then by George W. who put more and more jokers in positions of power.
And what a surprise, the government doesn’t work any more.
So now I find myself looking back fondly to Richard Nixon. My, ummm, hero.
Google, natch.
Is there no limit to what these Republican will do to me?
* Yeah, I know I skipped Jerry. But he served on a naval ship with my Dad in WWII during a typhoon and Gerald Ford saved the ship. So I cut Jerry some serious slack. Sue me.
If you haven’t seen this bit from John Oliver’s new show, you should. You should watch it before Tuesday’s election, and then again periodically, just so you remember what I keep telling you. That elections matter. And that it is important to pay attention to not just Federal elections, but to the ones lower down the food chain.
Apparently it takes someone from England, from the country from which we declared our independence, to explain to us just how we are letting our own government get away from us.
Because we don’t pay attention to “the unimportant levels of government.”
Ummm, it is at the state level that we’re really getting screwed. I can attest to this as a resident of “Virginia is For Ultra-sounds.” Yup, it is the folks whose names we don’t even know, who get to decide these issues that most impact your life and mine.
They are also the ones gerrymandering the US Congressional districts. They are eliminating access to abortion, to birth control and screwing us in a hundred different ways. And the state legislatures are the breeding ground, where the Not Ready For Prime Time Players go until they become the Michelle Bachmann’s and the Louie Gomert’s who end up framing our national debate.
[I read recently that John Oliver has been proclaimed the best journalist currently working. I don’t recall who said it, but I think they are right.]
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