Framing the Dialogue

Posts Tagged ‘gold’

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

I was shampooing my hair this morning and forgot how to do it so as luck would have it my bottle had directions.  The only problem is that I got stuck in a loop of lather,  rinse, repeat…lather, rinse, repeat…lather, rinse, repeat…. (you get the picture).  There is nothing on the directions about when to stop.  So I start thinking that since this seems to be happening with Obama’s economic policy maybe he lost the last page of his economic book and just doesn’t know where to stop.  I eventually ran out of shampoo and had to stop, but he has no “bottle” to empty.  When he runs out of our money, he just prints/borrows more.  Like my suds our money seems to be going down the drain.

The Disappearing Spoon

Try not to fall off of your couch when I suggest that a book that features “other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of elements” was very interesting.  Now that you are up I am telling you that author Sam Kean does just that.  We have all learned about the periodic table, but probably never heard much detail about the scientists that spent years and careers trying to figure it out.  My vision of these men and women was of a serious-minded professionals at the forefront of their field, trailblazers.  While that was often the case there was a considerable amount of back-stabbing and pettiness during the race to “discover” new elements,

View From The Couch

h1n1I know that the title gives the impression that the view is from a couch potato, but that is not the view.  I spent the last week confined to the house getting over the flu.  My doctor believed that it was H1N1, but did not bother to run any blood work since the results would not be available until after I was cured or dead.  That is not a quote, but the reality.  I’ll have to admit that it was the worst flu that I have experienced, but the deaths that I have read about all seemed to be caused by the secondary issues.  My condition settled into my chest and that is what my doctor treated.