Archive for June, 2005
Sleep Deprivation
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005Now, sleep deprivation is used to treat depression. (Depressives sleep too much so the thinking goes: deprive them of sleep deprive them of depression.) So all those depressed inmates at Gitmo are actually receiving therapy when they are deprived of their sleep.
Don’t try this at home, folks.
Blogging at Midnight
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005Why I am blogging this late? Because I’m a mom.
There are three peaceful hours in this house when I can still function semi-intelligibly. (If it’s spelled wrong it’s ‘cuz I’m tired.) They are between 9 and midnight. Sometimes between 11 and midnight if my husband stays up and hogs the computer. We only have one at home and don’t have cable or satellite. Yes we are in the stone ages.
This is the dilemma of moms. Time alone means time after or before normal sleeping times. No wonder so many moms are on Prozac. Studies show that sleep deprivation can lead to depression. And depressed people stop caring about their appearance. So we get tired and ugly. Great.
Freedom & Religion
Monday, June 27th, 2005I’m going to start a fire from the start. Even some good friends will disagree with me after a few sentences, but here goes..
China has been a hot topic of late. Business Week (www.businessweek.com) had a big splash about this mysterious country marvelling about how life seems so free and yet…. But, well their human rights abuses are getting better, blah, blah, blah. The bottom line in their view: capitalism and democracy don’t have to have one another to exist.
Tom Peters thinks that we need to accept China, embrace China. He is wrong.
China and the U.S. have an unholy alliance. America, in her desire for cheap things have chosen to look the other way while China has abused it’s own people. It is the people buying at Wal-Mart who are making this choice every day. We would be mad if G.W. or Clinton or anyone else interfered with our $15 toaster.
But there is no cheap lunch. The U.S. faces a foreign government not constrained by certain moral imperitives (human value for one) who is rich with American money to buy power in the form of major weapons.
I believe the boat has left the dock on this choice. China does not act like a friend to the U.S. in too many ways to name here. Any chance to encourage change for the better has been lost.
There is not Freedom in China. There is business in China. Business that can become the government’s tomorrow.
Cheap toasters today, expensive choices tomorrow.
Introduction
Monday, June 27th, 2005While my website is being serviced and not up, I decided to join the blog craze and see the interest and/or feedback……or lack thereof.
This blog will include stuff of interest to me: medical science, business and management, psychology, religion, politics, parenting, and weird miscellaney. Feedback is welcome.
