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September 2009 Blog Posts (130)

September 23, 1939 -- Three Score Ten Years Ago

A heavy cigar smoker, Sigmund Freud endured more than 30 operations during his life due to oral cancer. In September 1939 he prevailed on his doctor and friend Max Schur to assist him in suicide. After reading Balzac's La Peau de Chagrin in a single sitting he said, "My dear Schur, you certainly remember our first talk. You promised me then not to forsake me when my time comes. Now it is nothing but torture and makes no sense any more." Schur administered three doses of morphine over many hours… Continue

Added by Gary Freedman on September 23, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

The Autumn Equinox

Added by caseyjo on September 22, 2009 at 7:43pm — 1 Comment

Jack Webb Schools Us About the Generations and Patriotism

Added by OCNaturalDoc on September 22, 2009 at 4:31pm — 4 Comments

Activity in the Neighborhood Last NIght

Had a knock at our door last night.

My mother-in-law had come over to visit.

Her eyes went wide open when she heard another knock on the door (we do not get many visitors).

Figured is was just my father-in-law right behind her.

This boy (teenager) was selling something (he said) but did not have anything in his hands like most people do when they are selling something. He said he was doing something for school and as I listened, not paying too much attention, I told him no… Continue

Added by John Dalhouse on September 22, 2009 at 2:18pm — 2 Comments

Just think

Friends , just see and think ...

Added by Ashok Kalsi on September 22, 2009 at 11:52am — 1 Comment

Should I Fear For My Life?

Back in 1985 I worked with a fellow named Charles (Chas) Green. He had a law degree and subsequently joined the army as a member of the JAG Corps.

One day Chas said to me: "Someday you're going to screw the wrong person, and they're going to find your body floating, face down, with a knife in your back, in the Potomac."

Oddly enough, at that very time in 1985 one of the law clerks at the firm where we worked was Glenn A. Fine, Esq., now Inspector General of the United… Continue

Added by Gary Freedman on September 22, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

What causes the "Aha!" moment?

Sometimes a scientist will work on a project for years before he comes to a solution, before he attains insight. The bare facts were in front of him for a year, a decade--twenty years, even. Then, all of a sudden, the scientist has a new imagining of the problem, and the answer that he sought stands before him clearly. What is it that triggers the "Aha!" moment: the moment the scientist says to himself, "the solution was staring me in the face for years and now I see it with utter… Continue

Added by Gary Freedman on September 22, 2009 at 11:10am — 3 Comments

The Scarlet Letter

I had a friend named Craig Dye. Somehow conversations with Craig usually turned to sex.

On the afternoon of Friday August 7, 1987, Craig took a flight to Miami for a week's vacation. He had written a memo to our supervisor, Miriam Chilton, some time before advising her of his vacation plans: that he would be out of the office from August 10 to August 14, 1987. The memo was rife with sexual references, detailing Craig's anticipated sexual activities in Miami. Miriam called Craig into… Continue

Added by Gary Freedman on September 22, 2009 at 10:12am — 1 Comment

An example of true love.

True Love ...... my this painting shows .

Added by Ashok Kalsi on September 22, 2009 at 9:56am — No Comments

Starting Again

These days that statement doesn't just apply to those of us who have had relationship that didn't work out. Now all too often I've heard how us "Baby Bloomers" have had to start over with the loss of jobs that they had been in for several years, a life time. I am shocked and amazed how this type of starting over has not only been hurtful, like in a relationship, but also fearful. This kind of fear, of the unknown because of age, status, ecomomical forecast (or lack there of) comes harder to… Continue

Added by Patti on September 22, 2009 at 6:44am — No Comments

It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring...flooding here

Added by Whiny Old Bastard on September 22, 2009 at 5:00am — 2 Comments

Second Grade Soccer

At the middle school playing fields on Saturday, I watched the clash of the second grade titans from the sidelines. It was the Whites versus the Blues. Our Dylan was on the Whites and he was glad to see his best friend from pre-K, Benjamin, among the Blues on the field defending the opposite goal. For an hour as the boys ran up and down the field, kicking at the ball and often at each other by accident, I watched with the other relatives. No score was kept and calls of encouragement filled the… Continue

Added by Baia on September 21, 2009 at 10:00am — 2 Comments

Bumping Barracuda

Added by Whiny Old Bastard on September 20, 2009 at 8:34am — 7 Comments

Bumping Barracuda

Added by Whiny Old Bastard on September 20, 2009 at 8:32am — 3 Comments

Bumping Barracuda

Added by Whiny Old Bastard on September 20, 2009 at 8:31am — No Comments

Bumping Barracuda

Added by Whiny Old Bastard on September 20, 2009 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

Bumping Baracuda

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Added by Whiny Old Bastard on September 20, 2009 at 8:13am — No Comments

My Ace in the Hole

This is my Ace in the Hole in case the FBI says I committed a felony by defrauding the U.S. Social Security Administration:

http://garfreed.blogspot.com/2005/08/historiographer-pharmacology-diaries_17.html

http://garfreed.blogspot.com/2005/08/historiographer-pharmacology-diaries.html

Only an unemployable psychotic would write something like this and post it on the internet, don't you think?

If you have reason to believe I am a felon, contact Special… Continue

Added by Gary Freedman on September 19, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Oy veh!

I used to work at a law firm in DC. An employee, who worked in a cubicle next to me, talked about her July telephone bill one day. She kept saying: "Ju-ly. Ju-ly." I complained to the firm's managers that it was an instance of anti-Semitism: that the employee's statement could be interpreted as "Jew lie, Jew lie." I added that around that time the same employee had been saying, "liar, liar, pants on fire" and that she had entered a room saying, "oy veh." (The employee was African American). The… Continue

Added by Gary Freedman on September 19, 2009 at 11:57am — No Comments

The Second Shouter Theory

On September 9, 2009, President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to outline his proposal for reforming health care. During his address, President Obama said: "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."

In a breach of decorum, Representative Joe Wilson pointed at Obama and shouted, "You lie!" He said afterwards that his action… Continue

Added by Gary Freedman on September 18, 2009 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments