Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: September 2004
“You’re Fired”
Posted on September 10, 2004 in Physicians
This morning I fired my primary care physician and his medical group after receiving a nasty letter from their legal department accusing me of disturbing the peace in the cardiologists office “without reason”.
The Pattern in the Clouds
Posted on September 9, 2004 in Coronary Routine
This is what capitalism calls “efficiency”.
The Subtle Proves Significant
Posted on September 8, 2004 in Coronary
There’s a code in pain that cannot always be read directly as one reads a scrape on the knee or a cut on the hand.
W Stands for….
Posted on September 7, 2004 in Campaign 2004
John Kerry is on the offensive, turning his campaign towards the sniper in the White House. In a Labor Day speech to a crowd in Racine, West Virginia crowd, he lashed into the Pretender:
On every issue, from Iraq to health care, from jobs to education, W stands for wrong. Wrong choices. Wrong direction. It’s time for a president who will lead America in a new direction….Four years ago, George W. Bush told us he wanted to create an economy where there was “high-paying, high-quality work” for everyone. He now says prosperity has returned and we’ve turned the corner. Well, that’s just plain wrong. Most Americans I’ve met feel like they’ve been put in a corner. Prosperity hasn’t returned. We’ve lost jobs. Wages are down. Benefits are down. And George Bush is the first president since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression to actually lose jobs. That’s George W. Bush. Wrong choices, wrong direction. It’s time for a president who will [turn] America in a new direction.
I’d like to add to Kerry’s list. Dubya doesn’t mean just wrong. It means:
- Wastrel: the man who squandered the deficit and is now aiming to do the same with Social Security.
- Wreck: Which is what he did to the country.
- Wretched: a draft-dodging, AWOL former National Guardsman who just can’t stand the fact that the man opposing him is an actual military hero.
- Weird: Do you want a man who says “Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country” anywhere near your daughter?
- Wicked: What else describes someone who lies, steals elections, destroys incriminating documents, and sucker punches rugby opponents?
- Wishy-washy: especially when it comes to telling us why there weren’t any weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq or what happened to the surplus that Clinton and the Democrats created in 1994.
- Waning: Which is what happened to the confidence other nations have in our government and our people.
- Wanton: could care less what his policy of economic rape and pillage is doing to you and me.
- Worst: President ever.
- Washed-up: Let’s hope so!
Thanks to Andrea the Shameless Agitator for pointing to this speech.
Nagging
Posted on September 7, 2004 in Adolescence College Health
I do not want my mother talking about my every bite of food, the size of my stomach, my feeling winded at the top of stairs
Labor Day 2
Posted on September 6, 2004 in Class Festivals
I shall do what I can to make things better for those who must work today by treating them with respect and remembering that they, too, are America.
Labor Day: The Owned Society
Posted on September 6, 2004 in Childhood Festivals
It will not surprise me if this day is renamed “Patriotism Day”
Happenings Here
Posted on September 5, 2004 in Gratitude Site News
The reports may begin reappearing as early as this Friday
A Sock Stuffed in My Chest
Posted on September 5, 2004 in Coronary
If my HMO and the doctor’s ego allows, I may request my care transferred to an endocrinologist.
