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Hyperplastic polyps, and other things
It has rained every day for the past couple weeks in Albany, NY.
This is a picture of my mother's class (kindergarten or first grade, from the 1933 date). Can you find her? My, they all look so sullen. I mean, I know it's the Depression and all, but dang.
In that TMI category, there were a couple of polyps removed from my colon in late June. They were hyperplastic, a term I had never heard/seen before. This means that not only are they BENIGN, but they also do NOT turn into cancer. Compare this with polyps that are adenoma type, also BENIGN, but need monitoring. Not to mention outcomes that could have been worse. So I won't bore you with my colonoscopy tales for another decade.
If it wasn't for people such as Doug Englebart, I wouldn't be communicating with you. The tools he helped develop in computing are used today on the Internet. I started watching the lengthy video here from 1968(!). At about 19 minutes in, he's essentially describing the hyperlink; at 30 minutes, the computer mouse; later, Google.
I knew Google RSS feed reader was going away. Now I get an e-mail from Bloglovin every day – found it easier for me than some of the others that were suggested, such as Feedly.
There was so much to write about the Supreme Court cases in June. Yet the only thing I could muster was a piece in my other blog that the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is only partially dead, i.e., Section 3, while Section 2 survives. Those widespread news reports saying otherwise were wrong.
I actually started writing a piece on how crazy Justice Antonin Scalia was in the month of June, but I just lost my mojo for it. Mark Evanier put it well: "I don't understand a lot of the logic behind [the] rulings on Gay Marriage. Scalia's dissent in the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act reads to me like the rebuttal to his support the day before in the castration of the Voting Rights Act;" that's about right. SCOTUS voted 9-0 on the gene patent case, correctly, to my mind, but Scalia's "reasoning" was bizarre. Yet I actually agreed with the rebuttal of the Supreme Court's support for DNA testing of arrestees.
Arthur, rightly, was complaining a few weeks ago about the immigration reform bill Marco Rubio (R-FL) co-sponsored but threatened to kill it if gave gay couples immigration rights. So I found it quite entertaining that, as a result of part of the Defense of Marriage Act being struck down, a US citizen who is married to a non-American of the same gender will be able to sponsor his or her spouse for immigration in exactly the same way that legally married opposite-gender couples can. And the first couple approved by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services is from…Florida. Was that REALLY a coincidence?
When I feel discouraged about the body politic, I realize I need to find and read this book: The American Heroes of Social Justice.
Need to wish a belated happy 25th anniversary to Denise Nesbitt, the progenitor of ABC Wednesday, and her husband Jon.
At some point, it has rained every day for the past couple of weeks in Albany, NY. It doesn't bother me as much as it does others, based on the whining in social media, though it HAS been difficult to mow the wet grass. Now some local towns around here suffered sudden, severe flooding; THOSE people can complain. Still, I prefer it to the arid 100F+ (38C+) temperatures out in the western US.
I'm reading The 10 nerdiest jokes of all time, and this one made me literally LOL, with the intro, "Is there ever a wrong moment to make an existential funny?"
"Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, 'I'd like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.' The waitress replies, 'I'm sorry, Monsieur, but we're out of cream. How about with no milk?'"
Author RogerPosted on July 7, 2013 June 5, 2021 Categories UncategorizedTags Antonin Scalia, colonoscopy, Daniel Dickinson, my mom, philosophy, Supreme Court, weather2 Comments on Hyperplastic polyps, and other things
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