Archive for June, 2004
side effects may include nausea
U.S. citizens pay dearly for prescription drugs. We pay more, for the same drugs, to the same giant multinational pharmaceutical companies, than Canadians, Europeans, and citizens from most other regions of the world. The U.S. is the sugar daddy to the pharmaceutical industry. And how about this startling fact: the 2002 combined profits for the [...]
a happy commuter?
I don’t often have happy things to write about my daily commute into Boston, but that all changed this week with the opening of the new North Station (for a few weeks, anyway … it will be closed for security reasons during the Democratic National Convention). The new North Station is clean, modern, and wide [...]
some like it hot
I thought I would wait until the end of the month to do this, but today I realized I should just do it now: I’m handing over my blog to Winston, my cat. Of course, I’ll still be writing the entries, doing the editing and fact checking, policing the comments (I like wearing that uniform, [...]
purple drought
Lists like this — AFI’s list of 100 Best Movie Songs — always seem to generate a lot of discussion, controversy, agreement, disagreement, etc., which is generally the purpose of ranking things when there is no clear-cut rationale other than the opinion of those folks who actually do the ranking. All that being said, this [...]
HGLE
At the risk of becoming Home and Garden Leather Egg, I’ve posted some new photos of (you guessed it) the house! Hey, we have a cat, too … you want cat photos? OK, then … shut up.
The painters are done, so we started this past weekend on the finishing touches. I painted all the window [...]
pride bump
Last weekend was “Pride” in Boston, and despite what you may have read or heard on the national news, it didn’t seem any more joyous or any more crowded than it’s been the past 6 years since we first moved here, despite the fact we homos can now legally marry in sinful Massachusetts. I’ve mentioned [...]