In a new twist on suicide counseling hotlines, Compassion and Choices of California is offering terminally ill patients suicide counseling. Except on this hotline patients will be told how and why they should kill themselves. Literally counseled into killing themselves.
[Compassion and Choices] has decided to focus on advising terminally ill patients how to kill themselves…Volunteers [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Talking them to Death
Posted in Brazen New World, What the World's Coming To on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In Praise of the Hyphen
Posted in Links, News Story, What the World's Coming To on October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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It doesn’t say the hyphen has died, as some people seem to think. Before such an event happens, we’d have to create a replacement or somewhat drastically change our usage of English. It is true that the use of the hyphen has steeply fallen off. The old adage,
When in doubt hyphenate!
has fallen by [...]
Dead Man Waking
Posted in Links, News Story, Uncategorized on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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“I woke up because the pain was unbearable,” Camejo said,
Ugh! I can’t even imagine! I don’t want to. I wish I would stop trying to! Can you say X-Files or horror movie or just plain horrible! I mean, it is great that he’s alive, just why couldn’t they have figured that out [...]
It’s an Obsession, Not an Addiction
Posted in Links, News Story on October 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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So, for those of you who were planning an intervention, I appreciate the thought, but it isn’t needed. I’m not addicted, just obsessed.
“It is therefore far more plausible to suggest that a liking for chocolate, and its effects on mood, are due mainly to its principal constituents, sugar and fat, and their related [...]
A Belated Happy Birthday
Posted in Links, News Story on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
to the digital smiley face.
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So happy birthday to you and all your kin.
Yuck!
Posted in Links, News Story, Uncategorized on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Yuck!
Clark then turned to onlookers and said: “I’m hungry. I’m gonna eat it,” St. Paul police Sgt. John Wuorinen said.
“He was allegedly drunk,” Wuorinen said.
Yeah, I’m thinking so; either that or deranged–if there’s a difference.
If convicted, he could face up to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, said Tim Shields, [...]
