Just a Guy Who Reads the Papers

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New ‘diet plan’ works for me, my wife — diabetes diagnosis

I may have mentioned somewhere here a few months ago that my wife was hospitalized briefly for a heart flutter. (She’s doing very well now, thank you.) While she was hospitalized, she got another big surprise: She was diagnosed with diabetes. The diagnosis is that her blood glucose levels make her diabetic, but the good news is, she should be able to control it with a proper diet, regular exercise — and no need for medication.

Gulf dodges first hurricane bullet of oil spill season

For a few days there it looked like the cry throughout the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent states was “batten down the hatches” for Hurricane Alex. Fortunately, the storm turned sharply to the west, away from the oil spill area, and averted a worse disaster.

Heat spell makes me fantasize about travel plans from long ago

I’m sitting in the middle of a nasty stretch of hot, humid summer here in the Missouri Ozarks wishing I were someplace cooler. This early summer heat spell, I confess, is turning my fantasies back to some plans I had years ago. Actually, I’m on a “dual track” fantasy here, neither of which is likely to come true, but both of which look good today.

The good, the bad, the ugly concerning snail mail’s demise

Each day as I work from my home office, it has always been a nice break to get outside and check to see what’s in the daily “snail mail,” usually brought by our faithful mail carrier around 2 p.m.

Oil spill moving toward Florida beaches, news reports say

That monster oil spill — perhaps better called an oil “spew” — appears to be heading toward some of the best of the resort beaches along Florida’s west coast, from what they’re reporting on the news today. Just one more example of the horrific impact this mess is going to have on our world before it’s over.

Brits ban controversial vaccine-autism doctor

The story is sort of “old news” by now, but I was just reading about the British medical establishment’s banning of Dr. Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield is the doctor who released as study a few years ago insisting there was a link between some childhood vaccines and autism.

Wow, Gulf oil monster just keeps chomping stuff down

I guess the BP technical geeks must be feeling pretty desperate by this point. (Probably well before this point, if I know engineers.) No matter what they’ve shoved at the leak, or crammed down it, it just keeps chomping it all down.

Taming oil spill monster truly awesome, amazing story

Speaking of news stories — I suspect before all is said and done the whole nightmare of the devastation caused by that out-of-control oil spill and the details of how and when it’s gotten back under control may rank as one of the top news stories of this century.

Worldwide financial crises turn people toward gold

I suppose it’s no secret that, in times of financial crisis, people turn away from negotiable currency and various sorts of stocks and bonds toward good old-fashioned precious metals.

Not surprisingly, then, I just saw an online article that says Europe’s financial instabilities are turning investors toward gold coins. The story I read said the one-ounce 2010 American Eagle bullion coin seems to be increasingly popular.

Older I get, more I enjoy my sense of humor about politics, religion

I find that the older I get, the more I appreciate having an active sense of humor — particularly when it comes to the Big Duo of cultural discussion here in America — religion and politics.

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