Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: January 2007
Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral #26
Posted on January 14, 2007 in Roundup
Since it is Sunday, let’s turn things upside down and start with the medicine and science articles.
Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral #25
Posted on January 13, 2007 in Roundup
Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old and my grandchild is too young. You’re not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families. – Barbara Boxer
No matter what the public says, Bush and Blair proceed as if they have its full support.
- Bush set for climate change U-turn – Now there is such a thing as global warming – A Schwatzenegger ploy – “I’m going to be a nice guy because I am good on the environment even though I kill people by polluting the atmosphere of Iraq with bullets, bombs, and shrapnel”
- The Teen Abstinence-Only Crusade: Bush’s Domestic Sex Policy – Just where do they wear those silver rings?
- First stars in telescope’s sights – Hubbel is not the last word
- Lung cancer vaccine to be tested – You can stretch it out, but you still can’t beat the devil
- Huge crowds at US porn convention – But no erections on display
- Dr. Spocko Nerve-Pinches Disney Over Outrageous SF Radio Show
- “Box In A Box” Creators Revealed…
- ‘Everyone knew she was ill. The other girls, the model agencies … don’t believe it when they say they didn’t’ – Death of a British model by hunger
- Equal Cheers for Boys and Girls Draw Some Boos
- Anthrax doctor loses his defamation suit – Why haven’t they caught the mailer?
- Death of a Shark Leaves Scientists Grasping – What killed Ralph the Whale Shark?
- Spokeswoman: Jackson resolved bill suit – What was he taking? Abilify by the quart?
Not commenting during National Delurking Week is like not putting up a Christmas tree (or Chanukah bush)
Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral #24
Posted on January 12, 2007 in Roundup
New Los Angeles Sports Superstar.
Friday Anteater Blogging – An Aardvark
Posted on January 12, 2007 in Xenartha
I’ve promised to include an [[aardvark]] in my array of anteating mammals. This video showing a recent mother at the Brookfield Zoo may satisfy the hunger for African anteating.
Who needs cats and squids when anteaters combine the best qualities of both?
The Acid King?
Posted on January 12, 2007 in Quizzes
You know, I never did the stuff, but then I never needed it.
Insert A Trite Metaphor for a Corral #23
Posted on January 11, 2007 in Roundup
If you went by news programs, you might conclude that public support for the “surge” is tremendous.
Insert A Trite Metaphor for a Corral #22
Posted on January 10, 2007 in Roundup
To Surge or Not to Surge. That is the Question.
Now Which Day Was It?
Posted on January 10, 2007 in Milestones Partnership
I am not sure of the exact date (the 18th?) but I am coming close to the 20th anniversary of my meeting my best friend, my wife. Kind of funny in a way because I was more interested in the woman she was with and, at the last moment, offered to drive her home to impress this other person. The end result was that I asked Lynn out for a date (or I should say I stuttered a request for a date) and….well, you know the rest.
Another funny thing: we made a solemn vow to not have sex for six months when we met. By April of 1987, we were cohabitating.
This partner of mine has stuck with me through my worst scourges of my illness, nights when I held the pillow to my head and screamed. She was with me the morning I woke up and said to her “I am sick” and resolved to seek out psychiatric help. She stuck with me when I went off on a crazy trip to the Balkans to cover the war and she has listened to my every lunatic tale of life with the disease. Though there were moments when it was hard to stay faithful, I did, and as the years passed, the task became easier and easier.
Sometimes she has suffered the scourges of the jealous and the insane, but she has held my hand close. The shallow cannot begin to fathom her depth and commitment. This has been the love of my life.
War and Pieces of the Mind
Posted on January 9, 2007 in Occupation of Iraq PTSD
An antisocial character evolved out of a sociopathic war and the price was at least one family.
Systole and Dystole
Posted on January 9, 2007 in Life as Metaphor Reflections
From my seat in the restaurant, tail lights pressed into the darkness where their cause was taken up by headlights which came back at me. Just that steady round: no swings or episodes, no grand opera moments. Just the systole and dystole of a heart thumping to the movement of traffic. For now, my disease seems to be under control.
Goodbye 2006 with all your manias and depressions, your stalkers and your angry weirdos.
Insert A Trite Metaphor for A Corral #21
Posted on January 9, 2007 in Roundup
The White House confirmed that it was in serious political trouble on the matter of sending 3500 units to Iraq by bombing Somalia.
National Delurking Week
Posted on January 8, 2007 in Festivals The InterNet
Anyone can take part simply by leaving comments on the blogs that you regularly read!
