Dr Wingnut

Month: August 2008

  • Democracy and Money

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    When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.P. J. O’Rourke

  • Old Age, I decided, is a gift.

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    I am now, probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to be.  Oh, not my body!  I sometime s despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, and the sagging butt.  And often I am taken aback by that old person that lives in my mirror (who…

  • Eight years ago

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    You might remember when this accident happened… March 5, 2000.  Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 from Vegas overshot the runway at Burbank .  The plane crashed through the airport fence, careened across the street and ended up with a collapsed landing gear, right next to a gas station.  But that’s not the amazing part — Look…