He killed the Zoning Officer - I'm a nearby ZO
A maniacal fruitcake shot and killed the Zoning Officer in a sleepy, little municipality in northeast Pennsylvania last week. He also killed two innocent bystanders who had absolutely nothing to do...
View ArticleI held his hand until it went cold.
He was my kid brother and he was a pain in the ass. He was a narcissist, egoist (which was probably appropriate since he was also brilliant and strikingly handsome) and wildly lucky. Career,...
View ArticleRacist? Or Territorial?
I maintain a certain amount of authority while serving in my little, rural municipality. My office is my castle and if I don't like your language, or if I'm threatened, or if I'm insulted, I'll simply...
View ArticleTriage and Euthanasia in New Orleans
Sheri Fink's new book, "Five Days At Memorial" details the horrors visited upon patients and staff at New Orleans hospitals after Katrina. But it culminates in a remarkably honest, frank, and blood...
View ArticleTo whoever vandalized my son's grave...
My son's grave marker is beautiful - flat and bronze - flush with the ground like all the markers in the cemetery where he is buried. If you turn a knob and pull, a matching bronze vase pulls out from...
View ArticleBlack from a white mom's perspective.
When we adopted our son he was six. We were advised only that interracial adoptions required sensitivity regarding the child's race. We are white and lived in an area without much diversity (read...
View ArticleBody counts and abortion - why I'm a Democrat
I believe I started leaning left in direct response to my father's lean to the right. The more he grumbled his indignation about "youngsters" who had no sense of patriotism, the more stridently he...
View ArticleOkay punks. Here it is.
I wrote a recent diary about my late son and described an encounter we had with three "punks" (they were skinheads). In a very polite and civil way I was called out by a commenter on my use of the...
View ArticleFinally, we can regulate fracking!
Here in Pennsylvania, Governor Corbett not only embraced the gas industry, he kissed their feet. Act 13 of 2012 pre-empted almost all local regulation of oil and gas operations – or tried. That...
View ArticlePA Supreme Court Decision - A Thing of Beauty!
Fracking for natural gas in Pennsylvania is alive and well, even with slumping prices. Thanks to Democrat Justices Todd, McCaffery and Baer we are no longer burdened with important portions of a state...
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Our first boy!
Hello from a lurker to this wonderful group. Please meet Nanook. Our fifth Huskie, our fourth rescue. He joins current sisters Dory and Minx at home. He's an ear-splitting barker and we can't...
View ArticleOf trained apes and monkey faces:
As a nation, we appear to have stepped back about 150 years when it was apparently okay to some people to characterize those with dark skin as apes or monkeys. If a newspaper in Europe can show a...
View ArticleAnother 57 year old sandwich grateful for PTs.
I read a beautiful post recently by mamaeps - a 57 year old caught between responsibilities to both children and elderly parents (the sandwich). The writer was thankful for the hospital staff after...
View ArticleLooking for a maniac in the woods.
The stark differences between public sentiment toward law enforcement here in the Poconos versus Ferguson, Missouri are amazing. We are all Pennsylvania State Troopers these days. Anyone who has...
View ArticleI know stuff about cops
I’ve been man-handled by cops!Once, as a paramedic responding to a prisoner in need of care at the local jail, I backed up to give officers room to let me into his cell. I inadvertently backed...
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