I love looking at the beautiful dresses worn to events like the Oscars. But there is one trend that simply needs to stop and stop now – and that’s the see thru dress. I don’t want to see your nipples or your pubic region peeking out from under. That’s why you wear clothes… to cover up certain parts of the body. And if those boobs get squeezed together and shoved up any harder, they’ll explode their fake silicon all over the dress. Finally, while we at it, let’s dump the trend to have the dress stop at the knee but Continue reading →
Take that, you damn wasp!
I am woman, hear me roar. I can say that now that I’m done being hysterical over the wasp in my office. I was going to call a man to help… yes, Richard Wilson Jr., that would be you… but decided that I needed to man up and deal with it myself. So I ran around hysterically with a rolled up magazine smashing windows, blinds, walls… and finally got the wasp before it got me. I was feeling so pumped I even killed the fly at the window while I was at it.
I am woman, hear me roar! Continue reading →
Perception is sometimes everything
A story in Sunday’s paper described a lawsuit filed by the Southcentral Foundation against the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) over compensation paid some board members and its chairman. The amounts seem extremely high given they are within a system that is chronically stretched to its financial limits in trying to provide health care to Natives throughout the state. The compensation for the chairman in particular looks questionable given that the gentleman apparently is working two full time jobs at once. Both jobs are very demanding and that leads to some legitimate questions about how anyone can claim to Continue reading →
Ted Cruz liked porn on his twitter feed?
That’s an image I’ll never be able to get out of my mind. Makes me want to wash my brain with chlorine. Continue reading →
Not all heroes are really heroes
Columbus Plaza was a block away from my childhood home in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In it was a large statue of Columbus. Given that I grew up in an Italian-American immigrant community, finding the statue so nearby is not really a stretch. He was an Italian hero; the man who discovered America. He stood on the only patch of green for miles around my neighborhood. In fact, his statue stood in the nearest I could get to nature back then – an approximately two block square of grass with pigeons, a few trees and the statue of Columbus. Along Continue reading →
Let me see if I have this straight
Orangeman is going back to Houston because someone told him he needs to be more sympathetic towards the people injured in the disaster that recently struck that city. Seriously, someone had to tell him to go do this. Though, when I think about it, I’d rather still be in the middle of a disaster than have that man even attempt to hug and comfort me. OK, now I have to go take a bath. Continue reading →
The common good
As the question of taxes is being raised across the state on many October ballots, it might be interesting to take a look at the term commonwealth. It’s a word used by Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia in their official titles. So what does it mean?
Here’s the formal definition: “Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically it has sometimes been synonymous with ‘republic’. The noun ‘commonwealth’, meaning “public welfare general good or advantage” dates from the 15th century.”
So the founders of some of our most original states believed that Continue reading →
Damn that fake news…
Oh wait… it was on Fox News too? Then I guess there really was a hurricane in Texas. Continue reading →
Alaska Native Health care
Here’s the quote from Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price that I never thought I’d hear from a Fed. “They (Alaska Natives) know best how to care for their people, and we need to facilitate that.” For someone who came to Alaska as an employee of the Indian Health Service (IHS) in 1972, that statement is mind blowing.
When I arrived in Alaska to serve as a nurse in the IHS Barrow hospital, the entire attitude of the organization was paternalistic in the extreme. It’s not that the people working for IHS were bad people or had some prejudice Continue reading →
You know you’re getting old…
You know you’re getting old when your spam folder starts filling up with advertisements for burial insurance. Continue reading →