January 2010

Medicine That Makes Your Sick

by bdunn on January 17, 2010

in Corporate, Government, Health Care

The bottom line today is that Johnson & Johnson and officials with their McNeil Healthcare pill factory in Puerto Rico are more interested in perpetual maximum sales than in the effects their pills may have on the people who buy them. The bottom line is that some people have been buying those products with the [...]

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Divine Plumbing Guidance

by bdunn on January 10, 2010

in This Damn Old House

Next time, when confronted with weather cold enough to freeze and burst your water pipes, ask yourself this question: What would Jesus do? From Chapter 1, The Secret Life of Bob’s Christmas Lights

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But Do The Spirits Possess Opposable Thumbs?

by bdunn on January 9, 2010

in Nature, This Damn Old House

A writer is one who obsessively tells, who can’t help sharing personal details, who reveals secrets, who tattles, spills, babbles, blabs without regard to (or more accurately), in spite of the potential consequences. So yeah, on one level, even while I was typing the post below, I knew I was tempting Fate by implying that, [...]

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Memory Freeze

by bdunn on January 7, 2010

in Nature, Self-reliance

A hard freeze is coming tonight, so they say, perhaps the coldest and hardest to hit these parts in a decade. Most of the stores are out of space heaters and (to my possible detriment) water pipe insulation, as residents batten down the hatches for three consecutive nights of temperatures in the low 20s. I’ll [...]

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