Need more smarm 'n schmalz in '17.
I just read "Here's to more LOVE this year." I just about tossed my cookies. If there's ONE thing we need less of, it's FlowerChildism-Gone-To-Seed. What we need MORE of is realism: facing facts, facing reality, dealing with what's really true.
Down with PollyAnnaism. Down with Disneyism. Because those, ultimately, are nothing more than debilitating spiritual and political crack. Let's detoxify from them this coming year. Make the world a better place that way.
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
As Ever, Facts Left Out
Found this @ CBS News (re George Michael's death):
“Very few things cause healthy people to die suddenly. I suspect he may have had a serious underlying health issue that led to his acute heart issue,” said Bensimhon [medical director of the Advanced Heart Failure & Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at Cone Health System in Greensboro, North Carolina], who also had no involvement in Michael’s case.
“People don’t typically die suddenly from heart failure. Progressive heart failure is a slow, insidious process through which people are very symptomatic with shortness of breath, weakness and swelling,” Bensimhon explained. “That said, people with weak hearts which cause heart failure are predisposed to dangerous heart rhythms which can kill them suddenly and that is why we place implantable defibrillators (ICDs) in these patients. I suspect the announcement that he died from heart failure is not the complete story.”
His former "lover" died of AIDs-related complications.
AIDS makes heart disease more likely...
“Very few things cause healthy people to die suddenly. I suspect he may have had a serious underlying health issue that led to his acute heart issue,” said Bensimhon [medical director of the Advanced Heart Failure & Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at Cone Health System in Greensboro, North Carolina], who also had no involvement in Michael’s case.
“People don’t typically die suddenly from heart failure. Progressive heart failure is a slow, insidious process through which people are very symptomatic with shortness of breath, weakness and swelling,” Bensimhon explained. “That said, people with weak hearts which cause heart failure are predisposed to dangerous heart rhythms which can kill them suddenly and that is why we place implantable defibrillators (ICDs) in these patients. I suspect the announcement that he died from heart failure is not the complete story.”
His former "lover" died of AIDs-related complications.
AIDS makes heart disease more likely...
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Never Heard Of Him {Shrugs}
I participate daily @ a writing site that sort of doubles as a forum. They always immediately post about any famous musician/singer who dies, so just now, it was this Michael George guy. I never even was exposed to his name, much less have I heard anything he performed. Sounds like his death might've been a rerun of "Prince's" (another guy I'd never heard of either, till the writing pack went on and on about his demise).
Personally speaking, none of these "greats" made music worth beans. So whhhhat's all the snivelling about? Sheesh!
Personally speaking, none of these "greats" made music worth beans. So whhhhat's all the snivelling about? Sheesh!
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