I try, as best I can, to follow world events from an armchair perspective. Been that way for years. When the internet came along in the nineties, I had even more ways to gather and look at news events from all over the world. And gosh, so much is going on these days. So many … Continue reading
For millions of Americans, those Golden Arches beckon one and all, every day right about noon time. Menus on billboards proudly display pictures of Super Big This with oversized bags of That for all to see and desire. (Could heroin be any more addictive I wonder)? Endless lines of cars passing through endless drive-thru’s. Cars … Continue reading
Let me see if I have the perfectly correct. A lab in Rotterdam Netherlands has developed ‘a man-made flu virus that could change world history if it were ever set free!’ Seems that scientists have managed to alter the avian flu’s (H5N1) gene structure in such a manner as to make it catchable by mammals, … Continue reading
An advisory board to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this afternoon urged the U.S. government to launch a controversial trial of the anthrax vaccine in children. The 12-1 vote backs a September recommendation from a working group that spent about 3 months weighing the pros and cons of such a study and … Continue reading
This last October the 15th, a group of organizations launched an initiative that promotes hand washing as something that ‘can reduce the spread of often fatal diseases and acute respiratory infections.’ Its organizers estimate that hand-washing with soap could save more lives than any single vaccine or other form of medical intervention. The problem they … Continue reading
God commands His people to “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Ephesians 5:11 I understand that for many millions of Americans, All Hallows Eve or Halloween, is a time of parties, candy and dressing up in costumes. And were that all it was, I would never utter a … Continue reading
The movie Contagion has two plots in my view; first, a deadly virus comes on the scene that is transmitted indirectly by touching surfaces (known as fomite transmission) and second, the unfolding fear among people that races well ahead of the virus itself. A fear that quickly tears down the foundations of civilization and which … Continue reading
Like a cat softly entering a room on cushioned paws, a new killer may be stalking the land. Known as NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-beta- lactamase 1) this gene fragment becomes deadly whenever it gets inserted into a bacterium’s genetic structure. If a bacteria strain carries the NDM-1 gene, it is resistant to nearly all antibiotics, … Continue reading
After receiving money from the Obama administration, I wisely invested in a ‘fixer upper’ restaurant in what is quite frankly a poor section of town. The place cost over $200K, but I really didn’t care as it was not my money! Ha Ha! I’m also told the location is such that if I get in … Continue reading
After two weeks of hosting the Wall Street Occupiers, Mayor Bloomberg has been forced to call in the city Sanitation Department to come in an clean out the ‘animals’ who have been living in Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan for over two weeks now. Brookfield Properties, the owners of the park, have indicated that conditions … Continue reading
