LIVING WITH MCL

It's been three days now since Thanksgiving dinner with the family, and I've had lots of time to reflect. Things have changed so much over the past year, it's hard to fathom. Last Thanksgiving I was in a totally different place. Edie had just died, and even though I'd met Judy (now my fiancé) by then, I never thought life would ever be the same. Of course life can never be the same, but I've met a wonderful women to share the rest of my life with, I have many family members who care about me, I live in a place most people would dream of living in, and I'm financially secure. So what's my problem? What more do I want, need? Sure, my health isn't the best, but despite that I'm still in better shape than most people my age, and quite a few even younger. I ride my bike, I'm taking up rowing [sculling], and if it weren't for that fateful blood test on March 26, 2002 (and many subsequent ones since then), I might still not know I was even sic...

Listening to the constant barrage of news about the Paris attacks, the threat of more attacks, the plight of refugees, and then on top of that, having to listen to the political pundits, and presidential candidates advocating the need for more troops and military action to stop the spread of terrorism, is becoming overwhelming. Do people really think more military action is going to make things better? Stop and think a minute. How would you react to a foreign power invading the US, and then occupying it?   Would you cower under the thumb of the occupying force? How about if you had to deal with the constant threat of drone strikes, blowing up weddings, schools, and even hospitals?   Sure, you might cower, others might as well, but there would be many who wouldn't. Many would take up arms, and resist the invading force. What would you do then?   Would you work with the invaders, or lend your support to the resistance? I know ...

We had been planning to see a taping of Undateable Live for a few weeks now, and we actually made it there tonight, but on the way something awful happened. A terrorist attack in Paris. Now it might seem heartless of me to be thinking about my misfortune, having to wait over 2 hours for our driver ( the show was cancelled) ), to pick us up, when so many others are suffering an unimaginable fate, but it is what it is. If nothing else, this few hours has provided a lot of time to think [blog], what might have been, if it weren't for the likes of Republicans, and the spawning of the two individuals I blame most for the state of the world today, George W Bush, and Dick Cheney. Those two, in only 8 short years, managed to do more to destabilize the world, creating the chaos there is today, than anyone could have ever imagined. (What Saddam Hussein must be thinking now.) If anyone deserves blame for the carnage in Paris today, it is George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and they should b...