I just had a follow-up visit with the doctor to discuss my lab results. The short version is: “We can’t figure out what’s wrong with you.” She wants to send me to a rheumatologist. Hey, maybe I have rheumatoid arthritis. Wouldn’t that be fun?
What a year I’ve been having. The latest adventure is a good one. I had an allergic reaction to some skin cream. A rash of beautiful pustules broke out all over my body. The doctor put me on steroids and antihistamines. Now the rash is gone, but my skin is incredibly dry and peeling. No amount of moisturizer can keep my skin from cracking and flaking. I can assure you, I look marvelous.
Life just keeps getting better and better! Uh oh, time to go use up another bottle of Lubriderm.
“Power Overwhelming” is what the game Starcraft says when you enter in the invincibility cheat code. I wish my life had cheat codes.
These things probably aren’t that interesting to anyone else, but I’ll post them here anyway. Hey, It’s my website.
More will be added as time goes on.
I’ve seen these personal adornments (bracelets, t-shirts, etc.) asking “What Would Jesus Do?” I think the more important, more relevant question is “What Would YOU Do?” Jesus lived — if he lived at all — approximately 2000 years ago. Societal rules were different back then. For instance, Jewish law (which Jesus presumably grew up following) says that eating shellfish is an abomination. So is preparing meat and dairy products in the same area.
I would like to know what contemporary Christians (not Jesus, who lived — if he lived at all — approximately 2000 years ago) do in situations where they they encounter such blatant disregard for the scriptures. Why aren’t Fred Phelps and his ilk protesting Red Lobster? Why is the biblical prohibition against homosexuality so much more important than the prohibition against shellfish? Aren’t they in the same book? What would Jesus do? What Would YOU Do? Especially now in the Christmas season‽
By the way, Happy Holidays!
December 20, 1996
Carl Sagan died.
December 18, 1865
The Thirteenth Amendment to the US constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude.
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Note—I hope to make this a recurring feature.
A great post over at Rationally Speaking:
Unquestioning ideological commitment is the real enemy, be that in favor of a religion or political position, in reverence of a prophet or a political leader. Ironically, I think our tragic tendency to fall for facile ideological brainwashing may be the result of the fact that, despite our literature, science, and technology, we are still little more than a species of social chimpanzees – and we instinctively align ourselves with the alpha male, regardless of how much stupidity and suffering may result from it.
The full post is here.
I almost forgot to mention this. Today, December 10, is Human Rights Day.
A Catholic diocese is evicting a Unitarian Universalist congregation because they made the grave error of inviting a gay rights speaker to give a talk. I just have to wonder what they are afraid of.