The perfect treatment for a disease needs to satisfy several requirements: the treatment should be 100% effective and it should be completely safe for the patient. If it were also easy to do, and inexpensive, that would be perfect. When the standard treatment for a disease fails to satisfy all four of those requirements, people […]
Monthly Archives: July 2007
I spent the summer of 1973 working at the Central Missouri Humane Society, back in my pre-veterinary days. People would call asking, "Do you have any purebred dogs with papers?" Occasionally, we actually did. Most of the time we had the canine "wretched refuse of your teeming shore" (to borrow from Emma Lazarus). While there […]
Well, the season is only one concert, but it’s a good one. I always loved band when I was in school. After you graduate, there’s not much opportunity to play your instrument. Sneaking into the pep band at football games is frowned upon. More than twenty years ago, I clearly remember talking about getting up […]
On Monday, July 2nd, the Kennett Municipal band will perform "A Patriotic Cavalcade" of music at the old Jones Park band-stand. It’s 7:00PM, be there and be square. Bring your lawn chairs or blankets. More on this story as it develops. I’ll be your master of ceremonies, as I have for the last nineteen years.
When I was in undergraduate school, I had pet rats for a while. Of all the pocket pets, the rat would be the most popular and endearing except for one thing: that naked, pink tail (that, and "rat" being synonymous with treachery and evil). They are smart, active in the daytime, remain docile even after […]
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