CONSOLATION TWENTY-EIGHT: POKER

     Always a favorite hobby, poker has become something more to me now that I'm in my late seventies. It's the one competitive activity I can still do with men and women a third my age. Can't do it in sports -- in golf, the only sport I can still play without tearing myself apart, I have to use the senior tees. Can't do it professionally -- I'm retired from all that. Only in poker can I still sit down with 20-, 30-,…

So im watching MSNBC the other day as i usually do (since id have to commit suicide if i watched fox news for more than 2 seconds), and theyre covering the Moore, OK. tornado like everyone else was.  It was 3-4 days after the actual event and everyone's doing stories on the clean up ect... So the camera was following this 20some yr old young woman as shes walking down a street then into a parkinglot, and the reporter is asking her the usual questions like, "how is the clean up effort going",…

As things are getting seemingly worse in Oklahoma, people are just lucky to be alive. The communities have to start over and rebuild and millions is going to have to go into these rebuilding projects. While some are offering prayers I can say without hesitation that everybody reading this thinks that's bogus. I'm calling BS on "sending prayers" to the victims. Prayers are not going to help anybody rebuild there lives. Now to my point, a few days ago a women named Rebecca Vitsmun was…

I recently started teaching at a small home school. I had no idea what I was getting into until I started teaching "Biology" <--- note the quotations! I opened up the book expecting to find hard facts and good lessons but instead it started off by saying how all animals were created on the 5th day. *Cue immediate facepalm* Now I'm supposed to read this to my class, which took some hard effort and displacement of my consciousness. I felt like such a fraud!

But THEN I came across a…

6 liters of 100% pure cranberry juice and an entire pack of  Cystex later, I'm still pissing blood. 

It's been four days. 

I'm not going to be seeing a doctor anytime soon because .... 'Ermerica! 

But that's beside the point. 

Generally when I'm on my own for healthcare, I order aquarium antibiotics online. They go through more purity testing than the livestock stuff I have for my homestead. I can't wait another three days for them to…

In a notoriously red and conservative state one politician had the courage to stand for his non-beliefs! I think this is pretty f-in amazing.



From Gawker:

AZ Lawmaker In Charge of House Prayer…

...and that's pretty cool of him. 

I knew there was a reason I wasn't trolling this guy's Twitter account. 

Now, I'm no fan of the job, in general. But this guy seems alright! 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/22/pope-francis-good-atheists_n_3320757.html

My good works are animal adoption charities, veterans programs and of course, my Plant a Row Program,…

source: http://freebeacon.com/wolf-blitzer-asks-tornado-survivor-if-she-thanked-the-lord-tells-him-shes-an-atheist/

BY: …

Ok, so my husband and I got married on March 15 2013. We'd been together for a bit more than a year before we got married. We've lived with his parents for little less than a year now and its been horrible. So, I'm really asking for help on how to deal with the situations I am subjected to every day...

My mother in law is a control freak. She dwells on things that happened in the past that for whatever reason, she just can't let go of. She is cruel to her husband, and he isn't so nice…

"To Whomever It May Concern:



When you ask me to respect religion because people believe in it, I want you to remember something. I want you to remember that long ago your ancestors were not Christian or Muslim. They had their own culture and customs native to their heritage. Through military conquest religion spread itself through the Old World, and those distant relatives were faced…

"Over 20 people killed but THANK GOD my family was spared!"....So what about the other families? Should they also thank god to have family members killed by violent storms? DOES NOT make any sense to me!

Just why can’t we let some things go? Why do some things bother us more than others? Why do some things bother some people more than other people? These are things about which I deem myself to have some insight; hopefully more than some, since I’m a therapist working somewhere within the psychotherapy field.

Let’s break it down: put very simply, there are three types of recognised personalities within psychology. One is a very sensitive type, prone to traits of emotional delicateness,…

Mosses make two different plants from the same genome, and the trick is down to a single gene.

The Conversation has finished up its series on medical myths. It's both an interesting and informative list totaling…

Cosmological natural selection (fecund universes)

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According to CNS, black holes may be mechanisms of universe reproduction within the …

Watching Star Trek Into Darkness awoke the part of me that wants to use dental floss as a garrotte, my impotent rage. Impotent,…

How much proof does someone need to prove that another person is being inappropriate (in a sexual manner) at work?  Where exactly is the line?  Just wondering ...

A British child murdered for her organs in India, a country with nearly 1.5 billion people!

This is a most upsetting story. We should understand that there is a single thread in this diabolical, sociopathic, greed-driven system. A system which is controlled by a collective, or "Cabal", who's families span at least a millenia in history. These men, with power, and wealth beyond imagination, have their hands in everything…