artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: Growing Up Poor
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2015/04/growing-up-poor.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. I grew up somewhere between poor and lower middle class. Raised in a largely single parent household, by a working mom who had a high school education (maybe). Pops was there occasionally, mainly when he had finished his drinking spree and wanted the comfort of a home and good woman. Sometimes, my mom would let him in, sometimes not. Mainly, though, he was missing in action. But throughout this period, when we were forming our personalities, no one...
artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: September 2014
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Friday, September 26, 2014. Global Messes and Our Inattention. For example, on our southern border, we have flocks of folks, including a bunch of little kids, hurrying across the border, seeking safe haven. That makes us grumpy. How can we drink our beer and watch the NFL with all these little kids scurrying across and around our fences? So do we do anything about the root causes? No What could we do? But what can we do now? Maybe . . . only maybe. Poor folks can't buy bread?
artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: July 2014
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2014_07_01_archive.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Thursday, July 24, 2014. Or, perhaps when they convince some young thing to don a dynamite vest, walk into a crowded marketplace and detonate the vest. Makes me wonder what the relative death toll is—Israelis killing Muslims, or Muslims killing Muslims? I wonder, how many people have to die before we conclude that too many people have died? Labels: The Middle east. Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Other planets, other times . . . And so, my love, here’s to us . . . s...The 70s . &...
artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: June 2014
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Monday, June 16, 2014. I have already written about my notions of tribes and tribalism:. See- http:/ www.artfulnotes.blogspot.com/search/label/Tribes. Sunday, June 8, 2014. What Would Obama Do? What Would Obama Do? Thinking About that old saw, “what would Jesus do? 8221; Then it struck me; it guides life without actually thinking. So, I finally figured out how republicans decide what to support and what to oppose. They just ask, “what would Obama do? So, Obama is in favor of...
artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: November 2014
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2014_11_01_archive.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Sunday, November 23, 2014. Digital Art: Is it Art? Then in 1986 I acquired my first PC, and gradually the software that would allow me to create this thing called digital art. I used Corel Draw/Paint initially. Of course, my first printer was a monochrome HP printer. In the old days, whenever I had a technical problem, I would call HP and actually speak to an engineer in Redwood City, California. To publicize my digital art. 8221; Is it ART, or merely the creation of the Pho...
artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: The GOP as Enemy of the Nation
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-gop-as-enemy-of-nation.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Wednesday, March 11, 2015. The GOP as Enemy of the Nation. So the GOP has now added “anti-American” as one of its defining traits. Prior to this stage, they had added the KKK, the NRA, the anarchist, the secessionists, and the ever present Christian Taliban elements to define the core belief system of the GOP. The Tea Party has always been helpful in this regard, bringing the KKK wing into the party. But what is one to make of this new GOP? But then where will you go Fox?
artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: March 2015
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. I have written before about my life as bookends. Before I was commenting about growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, and now seeing some similarities here in the US to those troubled times. But now, my bookends relate to health care. Now, one of the things you discover as you age a bit (I have now entered my 42. In a recent open season (what a charming name, huh? That was last November. What United Health Care neglected to tell us was that they were c...
artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: Money as the Enemy
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2015/03/money-as-enemy.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Sunday, March 22, 2015. Money as the Enemy. Dr Danielle Ofri is a practicing physician, as well as a prolific author. She writes often about medicine and the practice thereof. She recently penned a thoughtful (they always are thoughtful) article about the increasing role money plays in medicine and the delivery of health care. She begins below:. Read her full article here:. You are correct when you assert that earning money is not in itself an evil thing. But it is that ...
artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: Shit Happens
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2015/04/shit-happens.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Monday, April 27, 2015. The awful act of nature that comprises the Nepal earthquake—3700 dead and counting—causes many people to question their concept of God. As usual, Christians with no brains have linked the earthquake with “paganism” and God being angry. And lest the thinking Christians begin imagining that they possess the only emptyheads in the universe, it clearly is not so. In India,. See, every religion has its emptyheads. Quake, which is huge . The main shock epic...
artfulnotes.blogspot.com
artfulnotes: April 2015
http://artfulnotes.blogspot.com/2015_04_01_archive.html
Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. I grew up somewhere between poor and lower middle class. Raised in a largely single parent household, by a working mom who had a high school education (maybe). Pops was there occasionally, mainly when he had finished his drinking spree and wanted the comfort of a home and good woman. Sometimes, my mom would let him in, sometimes not. Mainly, though, he was missing in action. But throughout this period, when we were forming our personalities, no one...
