MENS FELICITAS IN CORPUS DIVINUM… (or…getting mellow…by just floating along…) The health mavens of our world have apparently come up with another means of achieving…Mens Felicitas In Corpus Divinum. Pardon our fractured Latin here but the meaning is…a happy mind
ABOUT THOSE SUPER-RESISTANT BACTERIA BUGS… (…and how a long forgotten therapy might overcome them…) A recent small news item about how over use of antibiotics, in places such as India, has created super-resistant bacteria bugs which now threatens the lives
DON’T CRY FOR RAIN…CALIFORNIA (…you just might get it…Texas style…) Texas…is all wet…drowning…that is, from way too many torrential rains which seem to be continuing to soak almost every square mile of it. That’s a lot of territory more or
HELLO, AMERICA…DO YOU REMEMBER WE… (…who still are missing…and never came home to thee?) If the headline for this issue sounds somewhat familiar to some folks, that’s because we’re paraphrasing the title of a song track from an early album
HOW DO I OFFEND THEE… (let me count the ways…) There are a number of folks out there these days who are always ready to pounce with outrage at any perceived slight or demeaning comment made by political candidates, officials
SAN FRANCISCO’S HAIGHT-ASHBURY SCENE… (still…rolling its own…dubbies that is) Some fifty years and a couple of generations further on, it seems that San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury scene is still…rolling its own… dubbies that is. In those way-back times of hippy counter
AN INEVITABLE OUTCOME (…even if justice is slowly…ever so slowly…being served) Since there was no question of guilt, the jury’s decision to impose the death penalty on the surviving younger brother of the Boston Marathon bombing duo, was a well-deserved
MOVING RELIGION TO A BACK SEAT ON THE BUS OF THEIR LIVES… (…leading them to just be Easter Catholics and Christmas Christians) Recent demographic research has apparently found that Americans have drifted further away from formal affiliation with any kind
SETTING HER UP TO FAIL… (…may be just what la-Lindsey needs..) Bad-girl celebrity, Lindsey Lohan still seems to be stuck in the negative gear of avoiding the consequences of misbehavior. By failing to properly complete a relatively soft penalty of
THE PATRIOTS HAVE JUST LEARNED A LESSON… (…on how to deflate…a reputation…without hardly trying…) The ongoing controversy about the Patriot football team’s winning the recent Super Bowl championship, in which it and its quarterback are accused of cheating to gain