The crazy lady strikes again for Thursday, September 14, 2006

In this article, a woman named Claudia Mitchell is quoted as talking about her new artificial arm. She received the arm at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago recently, and was featured today at a press conference. Why, might you ask, are people making such a big deal out of an artificial arm? Aren't there many people out there in Real World Land with artificial arms? What makes Mitchell's arm so special is that it's operated in the same or a similar way to that of our natural arms. Certain... Sign in to see full entry.

That's something my husband said to me a few hours ago. I'd called him to inform him of the second attempt to deliver a refrigerator to our apartment. He said the words of the title to me when I finally talked to him personally, after leaving a voice-mail message about the incident which provides the subject for this blog entry. I'd mentioned to the apartment complex manager the other day that we needed a new refrigerator, but that I'd appreciate a few days' notice before it was delivered. In... Sign in to see full entry.

This book is another one I've been thinking of revisiting in recent months. It covers a deserving but ignored topic - religious addiction - from an interesting perspective, fundamentalist Christianity. One of the co-authors, Stephen Arterburn, was affiliated with New Life Treatment Centers as of the time the book was published. (I have no idea if this treatment center is still in operation, much less whether they treat this problem at all anymore.) New Life treated a large number of alcoholics... Sign in to see full entry.

I'd like to take the time to thank everyone who has clicked onto this blog. Like it or not, you're making this Libertarian wannabe very happy. Nobody exactly held a gun to your head to force you to read this blog. In the future, I hope to write more interesting things in this blog. Sign in to see full entry.

A few years back, in one of my blogs, I described a pair of incidents which happened at an outpatient visit at the local university hospital. Apparently, I must have had difficulty describing these incidents adequately, from the tone of the comments left on that blog entry. The point I am trying to make in this blog is that there are times when it is hard to convey certain images in words. I don't know - maybe I just don't have the language yet to be able to describe exactly what I saw that day... Sign in to see full entry.

I enjoy watching the Bernardo Bertolucci film Little Buddha occasionally, when it pops up on our digital-cable package. There are two things which stand out especially when I watch this film. The first is the cinematography. I have one negative comment about it: the coloration of the scenes in the film. The scenes shot in the Seattle area are all done in blue tones - the same shade of blue, in fact. However, when Bertolucci cuts away to scenes involving the Buddha, those scenes are shot in very... Sign in to see full entry.

Melinda Duckett, 21, killed herself on September 8, 2006, after an unusually rough interview with CNN Headline News' Nancy Grace. Her two-year-old son had been missing for two weeks when she was interviewed by Ms. Grace the day before. Ms. Grace is known for her aggressive style of interviewing people; the article I read on AOL described her style as "practically cross-examining her guests." Duckett's family feels that the stress of being interviewed in such a confrontational fashion simply... Sign in to see full entry.