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Joseph Gentilini

Hi - I thought Jim had sent the photos, but maybe it was Bob.  Either way - thanks for sharing them with us.  They are beautiful.  joe

John Jackson

Janie, as a Dispatch non-subscriber, I couldn’t read the article but I assume the Eagles are highly rated – how high?

Mike and Dave, especially galling is the fact that Menendez is playing the Latino card – he says he’s being persecuted as a result of anti-Hispanic bias.  Just as galling (or maybe hilarious) is his explanation that keeping large amounts of cash ($400,000!) around the house is something he learned from his parents who were afraid of government confiscation of their money before they fled from Castro’s Cuba.  For the record, his parents came to the U.S. in 1953 and Castro seized power in 1959.

It’s good to know that we Dems now have someone on our team that can go head-to-head with all the industrial-strength liars the congressional Republicans have produced in recent years.                

Michael McLeod

dave

I am with you, right there sleeping by the fireplace, empitomizing. or is it epito-moseying. that old saw:

you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

The only exception in my life is that I am still writing. And it is still every bit as difficult as it ever was.

David Mitchell

Janie,

I could not read it either, but I am guessing it may have to do with the sport of college wrestling????

And also maybe a recent Ohio supreme court ruling??? 

James Hamilton, M. D.

John and Dave,

Just use a search engine - I use Bing - and type in Watterson High School Super 7 and you can read what it's all about.

Jim

David Mitchell

Janie and Jim,

Got it. Very cool!

"Gimme and E"

Joseph D. McCarthy

Dave please clarify.  Is that your GRADE for not knowing, or the start of the EAGLES chant?

If the previous I'd give youat least a "D".  If the Latter I'd give you a "A".

David Mitchell

Joe,

Correction : "you'd give me an a."

Michael McLeod

It would have been so much more effective if he had said "Donald Ducks."

Just a little extra effort can make all the difference. Think, people! God is in the details!

Joseph D. McCarthy

Jim do you think were all headed to becoming members?"

On another subject.  This may have something to do with Mr. Trump's request for 11,000+ more votes in Georgia.  Many years ago an individual running for U.S. Senator, in Kentucky, stated that "If not for 187 Votes, I would Have Been Kentucky Senator", Harlan Sanders (The Colonel).

I'll shut up for now.

James Hamilton, M. D.

Joe,

Becoming members?? My guess is many of us sons (and daughters) are already there!

Jim

P.S.

You gotta have a sense of humor regarding ailments at our age:

Remember Johnny Tillotson's 1960 song "Poetry in Motion"? Maybe now a more fitting title should be "Poetry on Motrin"!

Joseph Gentilini

Arthritis?  I agree with Jim H - we are already here - at least I am!  But we are still alive and that beats the alternative.  joe

Michael McLeod

Good one Jim. Your retirement career is flourishing. We'll make a combination photo-journalist/social commentator/witty word-play impresario out of you yet. 

I actually don't know exactly what impresario means and if I spelled it right that's just dumb luck and either way it didn't keep me from tossing it in there for good measure if you know what I mean and I think that you do.

David Mitchell

Mike,

I thoutht it had someting to do with trying to impress arios, what ever an ario is?

James Hamilton, M. D.

"Rheumatism"

That's what a lot of our parents and grandparents probably called it. 

We call it arthritis, The "arth-" comes from the Greek word for "joint" and the "-itis" is a suffix meaning "inflammation" or "infection".

When we talk of arthritis we are mostly discussing osteoarthritis (OA) which is a wearing down of the articular cartilage where bones articulate (join together). This happens for many reasons, mainly aging, repetitive (or sometimes acute) injuries, overuse and occasionally other disorders. It is very different from rheumotoid arthritis, septic (infectious) arthritis and several (often systemic) autoimmune diseases such as Lupus. When cartilage is damaged too much there can be areas where bones rub against each other ("bone on bone") which is quite painful. 

Although OA can be inflammatory it is not necessarily so. Inflammation may be a result as well as a cause. If I had been in charge of naming this condition, I would have called it "arthrosis" as "-osis" is a suffix that means "an abnormal condition of -". Generally, OA is related to aging and how we have used - or abused - our joints. I would wager that most, if not all, septuagenarians have OA that could be found on XRays somewhere in their bodies.

Yes, aging beats the alternative, but it does not come easily!

Jim

Michael McLeod

Dave: Maybe an ario is someone who sings arias. 

Joseph D. McCarthy

The saying of the week, by Mark Twain.  

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress.  But I repeat myself.

Michael McLeod

That's a fabulous quote Joe. Twain had such an amazing way of looking at things with x-ray eyes.

By the way I was relieved that they have a suspect now in Tupac Shapur's murder.

I was afraid all these years that they would come after me.

I was in Las Vegas the night he was killed. I watched the hubub from my hotel room. I was in Las Vegas covering a fight involving Christy McNichols, a boxer from Orlando. I had been working up a story about her. 

I remember looking down at a bunch of cop cars and I think it may have involved the arrest but after all these years I can't say for sure. 

Christy won her fight, I do remember that.

Michael McLeod

IN THE MEANTIME: I fancy myself a wordsmith but I could never compete, for sheer economy of messaging, with what Denise just communicated to me in a single look that took about a half a second to freeze me in my tracks. The look said, and I quote: You better watch your p's and q's mister and be grateful to me for coming over to your house to clean up the mess you seem quite comfortably living in but frankly when I walk into this house I think I am wasting my time with a grown man who is still preserved in a state of eternal adolescence and I don't care how much of a famous writer you think you are it's about time you got back to basics and just started acted like an adult, making your bed, for example, which seems to be beneath your highness but to me it's more like simple grown up behavior and an accomplishment I do not think you are anywhere close to achieving judging by that mess in your so called laundry-room and where is the organizing of your belongings and when are you going to get rid of all this junk that you will never have any use for and clean up your floors like a grownup and No you do not need a coffee cup filled with paper clips. When was the last time you needed a paper clip? And do NOT I repeat NOT go moping around here and grumbling that I have invaded your space because I am doing this FOR YOUR OWN GOOD AND YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL and if you are NOT there are quite a few gentlemen out there who would love to have a shot at this package of American womanhood you see before you, a woman who has long since gotten over buying into the whiny ass excuses you keep coming up with about how you don't have time to clean up this house but you somehow always have time to come up with one excuse after another and I only have so much patience so I'd be real careful if I were you.

It wouldn't be so bad if I weren't absolutely crazy in love with this woman. But  I am. 

James Hamilton, M. D.

Addendum to Mark and Bob B. as an addition to my Post #13219:

Gout is a form of arthritis, one of the "Crystaline Deposition Arthritidies" which, in the case of gout, is caused by uric acid crystals forming in the joint space. That initiates an intense inflammatory response. Most frequently involved is the big toe.

Jim

David Mitchell

Mike,

Wow - that is quite a "look"!

David Mitchell

Joe,

I can't help wondering what Mark Twain would have to say about the "sit-com" playing in D.C. these days. It would be hilarious if it weren't so serious. And the main characters seem to be serching for an actual script to follow.

Michael McLeod

Dave: I hope you realize I overstated just a wee bit. She does confront me and she does it in a healthy way. She is seriously one of the most compassionate, ethical people I have ever met. When you are with somebody like that, someone who leads by example, you can either take that person for granted or bust your ass trying to live up to the example they set.

Pursing that latter option is keeping me on point. Or at least closer to point than I've ever been.

Anway she's amazing and I am not overstating in that regard.

Remember "The Real McCoys," that tv show about hillbillies that would never make it on screen these days because it was so horrendously politically incorrect?

Remember the phrase that the grandpa used? He was proud of his family and when he would say something to that effect he would follow it up with a trademark phrase: "No brag, just fact."

So when it comes to what I just wrote about Denise, ditto.

David Mitchell

So Mike,

Does she have a sister?

Michael McLeod

Yes. She has two. That may sound like good news. It isn't. I can't say more without being un-christian.