Jul
15
2008
Word has just come down that Susan Atkins, one of the women convicted in the Tate-LaBianca murders along with Charles Manson, has been denied compassionate release by the California Board of Parole. Atkins is dying of cancer, cannot sit up in bed, has had a leg amputated, is paralyzed on one side and cannot even [...]
Tags: Susan Atkins
Jul
14
2008
Actually I’ve been one all my life. But after suffering through five or six major bouts of kidney stones over the last twelve years (I forget how many times I’ve had them), all of which required at least one hospitalization and one which resulted in my giving birth to a stent (for the gory details [...]
Tags: Climate Change, kidney stones