Ecstasy for the agonizing end?

December 28, 2004 By

No, I’m not trying to play a cute turn on “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” just wondering about how useful this drug may or may not be in helping the dying and their families cope with the last days of a long and mortal illness. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study [...]

Filed Under: Medical

Susan Sontag is dead. Ohio recount goes for Bush

December 28, 2004 By

Having been raised not to speak ill of the dead, and mindful of the fact that a son and a sister survive Ms. Sontag, I’ll resist comment, for now. But Michelle Malkin points out the very different obituary tones for Ms. Sontag and footballer Reggie White. Also, I don’t know if the folks over at [...]

Filed Under: Misc.

UN should just shut up and get out of the way.

December 28, 2004 By

The numbers are horrifying; the pictures are chilling, and the very idea that the island of Sumatra has been moved 100 feet – 100 feet! – is both awe-inspiring and fearsome. These folks are going to need lots of help, lots of money, lots of prayers. Prayers, especially, because prayer supports the rest of it. [...]

Filed Under: rants

Mostly Missing Christmas

December 26, 2004 By

The natural after-effect of a crash and burn is often illness, and my meltdown of several days ago has resulted in wheezing, a horrendous cough that suggests nothing so much as lungs being forced into an upward trajectory for deliverance on an innocent world. I should have seen this coming; in Traditional Chinese Medicine the [...]

Filed Under: It's all about me! Me! ME!, My brother S

Link-a-mania

December 22, 2004 By

There is so much going on, and so little time, but I wanted to just throw a few links yer way, that have struck me as required reading: Start off with the Mad Merry Monk, who is neither mad nor merry, but angry as all get-out about the negligence which lead to the tragedy in [...]

Filed Under: Serving up hot links

Anchoress Crashes and Burns. Film at 11:00.

December 22, 2004 By

So, as sometimes happens in life, everything came to a head yesterday afternoon. After a so-so day at work, during which I made arrangements with my pediatrician to get a second cardiologist opinion on a situation with Buster (my brother is not long for this world, and my 15 year old is routinely clutching at [...]

Filed Under: Buster, It's all about me! Me! ME!, Liturgy of the Hours, My brother S

Oscar Wilde would understand…

December 22, 2004 By

Have lots to say but very limited time. I hope to do some blogging later. In the meantime, read Tony Blankley’s interesting analysis of the cold logic of Donald Rumsfeld. For some reason, it put me in mind of Oscar Wilde’s old complaint: “I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There [...]

Filed Under: Misc.