Just feeling the need to comment...

Comment on something that perhaps no one will ever see, but wanted to say this just the same.

I saw online (on more than one page too) a story stating that there is no nutritional difference between organic and non-organic. See the catch is the word nutritional... I don't know about you, but I never once thought that by eating organic I was getting a greater concentration of nutrition/vitamins. I try to go organic anytime I can simply because it means it's been handled/processed less and in the case of produce hasn't been sprayed to death with chemicals.

Came across this some time ago... seems somewhat fitting.

Tick tock goes the clock...

Whoosh goes time.

... unless I'm sitting around the hospital, then it's somewhat less of a whoosh.

I came across an article whilst getting my news online... I rarely read the paper anymore. As often happens with me, an article has a link that I might click on and from there, it doesn't take me long before I am four or five (or more) clicks away from the first article.

At any event, I'm shocked and amazed that it's been ten years already that John Kennedy Jr. crashed... TEN years. Look, I know it wasn't like it was a few years ago, but I really was surprised to read that it was ten already. I mostly listen to my iPod now, but for as much as I listen to an actual radio (mostly while driving) I won't even go into the songs I hear on the oldies station.

A Ponderable

Saw the following in the Gullible info on our main page: Despite Billy Joel's claims, the good do not actually die young. According to U.S. Census data, on average, clergy members live about 11 years longer than those who have been convicted of at least one felony crime.

So I want to know then... what happens when a priest has been convicted?

As an old say goes

"My favorite teams in baseball are the White Sox and whom ever is playing the Cubs"

It's a bonus when the Sox win and the Cubs lose.

It's an even BIGGER bonus when the Sox win and the Cubs lose...

... at the hands of the Sox!

My nickel's worth...

I wasn't really sure which way to go on the title line since with inflation, two cents worth is more like a dime, but with the economy maybe it's more like a nickel?

I don't know...

So is anyone worried yet about the swine flu other than the media... a.k.a. the panic/fear mongers? Obviously if we choose to ignore it, it doesn't mean it will go away. BUT... in the grand scale of the world's population, the number or reported cases and related deaths are low. More people die from... and I'm stealing a line from Jon Stewart... the bullet flu.

Today's big story is that the U.S. recorded it's first death related to swine flu down in Texas. While sad that it was a 23 month old boy, the child was Mexican whose parents (or whomever) came here seeking treatment... a little too late I'd say. While this is tragic, I don't think it qualifies for the first death recorded here... but it causes me to pause and ponder.

So... if a man is standing on the Mexican/U.S. border or the Canadian/U.S. border and is shot... wait, maybe that's not a good analogy. How about this... if a man it shot in Mexico or Canada and staggers over the border into the U.S. it's counted as a U.S. death? What if the man crosses the border and once on U.S. soil a bullet is fired from across the border and kills him... is this counted as a U.S. death? For my money, if that man was a U.S. citizen than yes... it's a U.S. death. I know pointless nonsense really.

Anyway, now we've created panic in people who just might have the "regular" flu... that is to say that if anyone experiences any flu like symptoms... now especially... they will make a dash for the local hospital. A question kinda begs to be asked here. Without all the press this is getting and all the momentum, if you were feeling like you had the flu, would you go in, or is it more likely with this being all over the news that you will now... thus boosting the number of reported cases which in turn creates more panic and so on? You can see how this is... in a sense... a self perpetuated panic.

Common sense mandates that you should wash your hands before eating and take (in some ways) the same precautions that dictate normal hygiene habits. Right???

Oh wait... therein lies the problem... counting on common sense as your guide.