tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.comments2013-08-18T17:49:40.414-07:00The MaztorphylDavid Nagorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887096790584869038noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-15934722437409941402013-08-18T17:49:40.414-07:002013-08-18T17:49:40.414-07:00But that was in 1974! But true! Very true! :-)But that was in 1974! But true! Very true! :-)David Nagorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04887096790584869038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-24611185330287726552013-08-18T11:54:15.124-07:002013-08-18T11:54:15.124-07:00You forgot Blazing Saddles!You forgot Blazing Saddles!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-10396793960236740072013-08-09T09:40:03.029-07:002013-08-09T09:40:03.029-07:00Odd thing: I had the Cardinals as my second exampl...Odd thing: I had the Cardinals as my second example but edited it out for length! They've got one crazy stadium! I drive by it almost every day for my "day" job.David Nagorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04887096790584869038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-62139126584467742262013-08-09T09:38:30.108-07:002013-08-09T09:38:30.108-07:00Yup. Bugged out about 2 months back, with good rea...Yup. Bugged out about 2 months back, with good reason.David Nagorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04887096790584869038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-32005424577489391202013-08-08T12:28:37.009-07:002013-08-08T12:28:37.009-07:00Hi Maztor: Hope the family is doing well!! That&#...Hi Maztor: Hope the family is doing well!! That's Phoenix. They grab everything and do everything for themselves. Has been that way for a long time. The Arizona Cardinals is a perfect example. Everyone in the state gets to pay for the stadium, but Phoenix gets all the benefits. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-70542475551422298682013-08-06T20:30:04.459-07:002013-08-06T20:30:04.459-07:00I didn't know you'd fled. Lots of that goi...I didn't know you'd fled. Lots of that going around of late. Crappy library story.Bobhttp://bobrbogle.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-57037730549561661042011-12-31T18:13:03.832-07:002011-12-31T18:13:03.832-07:00"I’ve put off my fiction work far too long.
I..."I’ve put off my fiction work far too long.<br />I’m 43 now, and I’m nowhere near where I wanted to be with my fiction career by this time. Hell, I’m nowhere near where I wanted to be at 33, for that matter! This includes both reading and writing, I’ve let both slide off to next to nothing. That is unacceptable."<br /><br />Have I not told you this several times? STAY WITH THIS ONE. This insight alone is sufficient for me to forgive you your unfortunate misunderstanding abt Hemingway.<br /><br />The bit about siestas I quite embrace & endorse as well.Bob R Boglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03461442471317081033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-35536837916523940692010-04-14T08:23:21.946-07:002010-04-14T08:23:21.946-07:00Took me a while to get around to reading this, Dav...Took me a while to get around to reading this, David, but I'd like to say that I am generally in agreement with what you say here.<br /><br />I do not despise politicians and bureaucrats wholesale. I suspect that most of these people enter into these professions as idealists. I think nowadays other powers have become so supremely superior in the techniques of manipulating money and political power that "the federal government" is simply lumbering along far behind. These other powers include the international corporate world and high finance, and something that I think is unprecedented in the political arena, a media/propaganda machine working independently of the old political machines. As you've done here, I wouldn't really single out one party over another, but Fox News/Rush Limbaugh/etc. represents a new political behemoth in American politics whose power and impact I can't really distinguish from that of Al Jezeera in the Arab world.<br /><br />As for so-called healthcare, that began to vanish rapidly beginning in the early 1990s, as far as this insider-witness is concerned, once decisions by HMOs began to trump decisions made by doctors. The current generation of doctors, and of all so-called healthcare workers, has now grown up with only this model and is unaware of the degree to which compassion and care has been destroyed by a laser-tight focus on the bottom line. If you think back to natural disasters in this country during the last few decades it may begin to occur to you that the approach of so-called insurance companies is not to reimburse your destroyed property, but to resist reimbursing your destroyed property, and to exclude from coverage anyone most likely to be in need of reimbursement, of care, of human compassion. Of course it's the exact same story in so-called healthcare now. "Insurance." Hospitals have been transformed into voracious maws sucking in cash for insurance companies, and while in earlier years in the workplace I knew I was helping improve human lives, now I mostly feel like a bag man for the mob.<br /><br />I agree with your suggestion, David, that the solution is not in becoming more polarized right or left along the political spectrum, but in favoring human compassion over corporate profits. I just made a 5,000 mile drive across this country, and I'll tell you, regardless of our present economic woes, if the cars on the highways and the homes along the highways are any indication (and they are), we live in an awesomely wealthy country. The dream of endless corporate expansion and municipal growth built this country for centuries, but we reached the Pacific Ocean in our Westward advance long ago, and continuing this unsustainable fantasy now is tantamount to blindly promoting a social cancer. We require economic sustainability at home and compassion for our fellow man, not blind ambitions to make corporate executives richer and richer, not the never-ending updates of procedure manuals written by administrators in corporate offices a few thousand miles away. This is as true in so-called healthcare as in any other market sector, and everyone knows it. But what will turn things around?<br /><br />Unlike you, David, I do not accept personal responsibility for this disaster that continues to unfold in so-called healthcare and beyond. Raising, or changing, consciousness is all fine and dandy, David, but these powers are vast and deep. Sometimes dramatic events are the only possible triggers. Sometimes only blood can initiate a political earthquake. The inflamed political rhetoric one hears in this country every day seems to me not so very different from what was heard around 1860, and the only thing that may be preventing a new civil war from erupting is the fact that the political polarization is not regionally-segregated now.<br /><br />As you say, the political landscape has shifted radically. Are the politicians capable of evolving rapidly enough to adapt? I doubt it.<br /><br />It may take an earthquake.Bob R Boglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03461442471317081033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-88919711918880059152009-10-22T15:18:26.662-07:002009-10-22T15:18:26.662-07:00My guess is the porcupine or even the dreaded nyal...My guess is the porcupine or even the dreaded nyala fle.The Maztornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359255919906263752.post-75289464425952157812009-10-21T20:54:20.318-07:002009-10-21T20:54:20.318-07:00Wasn't it the bird flu a year ago that was goi...Wasn't it the bird flu a year ago that was going to take us all down? How about west nile?<br /><br />Birds, pigs .... what next?<br /><br />Joe HUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13427812590423636583noreply@blogger.com