Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Freedom to get a new job...

The Idaho House voted 48-21 yesterday to allow pharmacists—but not pharmacist technicians or other staff members—to refuse to dispense prescribed medication based on religious or moral objections, despite arguments that said the law would have major unintended consequences for the elderly and for employers. The law is called the 'Freedom of conscience' act.

All rational and logical arguments aside, I think there is a point to be made that no one has brought up yet; why was this not presented to you in school? Do pharmacists go to four years of undergrad schooling and then on to pharmaceutical school without ever thinking that there might be drugs out there that they might not agree with? I really like the atmosphere of a sophisticated bar and have every needed skill to be the most popular bartender in town. One issue; I don't drink - never have. I think alcohol is addictive and dangerous. I determined that this slight conflict of interest would deter my effectiveness as a bartender and moved on to another career.

Pharmacists distribute drugs prescribed to medical patients. They have an obligation to withhold any drugs that I may abuse or in anyway endanger my health. But no one should be endowed with power as my personal medical guardian unless I permit it to happen.

Besides, doesn't this world have enough problems without pharmacists withholding birth control medication because they think the couple should be married first. Then what? Withhold their prenatal drugs because they didn't listen to you?

Go play God in somebody else's Walgreens.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

10 pages down...

This summer I had an idea for a TV show that I thought would make a killer story. I have written about 10 pages of the pilot script and I am still not sure exactly what the story is.

This crap is hard.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

24 hours in Boise

Took a weekend jaunt up to Boise Sunday morning for the wife's Hairstyling show (I am almost sure this is where people get together and show off, but I am not sure) - and after going to a random church I explored the State's capitol city for most of the day. Both outsiders and Idaho residents be shocked when I tell you; I actually enjoyed this city. Who knew.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Textual Healing

I have made a new commitment to attempt real communication with my friends and family instead of Seven word statements that usually end up mispelled and misunderstood.

And this has nothing to do with the last wireless bill I got...

Friday, March 13, 2009

Old Times

Having most of the old cast back together for ER last night was awesome. Now I remember why I loved that show in the first place!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

No stomach for the 2nd

I woke this morning with a sick feeling in my stomach and much has not changed after reading this morning's top news from ABC. A man by the name of Micheal McLendon went on a shooting spree today, killing 10 people including his mother and a 18 month old child before killing himself. ABC has the full report: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7055006&page=1.

What could possibly trigger someone to do this? Has life really turned on someone in such a way that they would become so possessed with rage and hate to gun down an unsuspecting community?

We live in a dangerous time, a time when people can take lives into their hands and cut them short by applying a small amount of pressure to a trigger of a gun that was probably purchased legally. I hope all Americans will take a moment to realize that these situations never entered the minds of the framers of the Constitution when they gave us a right to bare arms. Ten people lost the right to live today, because someone exercised their 2nd Amendment privileges.

I don't think the sick feeling is going away.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Was there a sign up sheet I missed?

When I was 16 years old, I had a strong desire to be financially independent if not (and this was my true hope) filthy, stinking rich. I had illusions of bachelor pads on the North side of Chicago - I decided it would be off the 157, a nice car and my only worries would be those at my magnificent job that others would beat up small animals for. Now at 16, who doesn't have this ambition? But at 18 I made the plan to do it and at 22 I caught a glimpse of plausibility, I actually watched the chance unfold before me.

Then I met a girl, and she screwed everything up!

Now I am sitting in an apartment next to my space heater (darn right; I am not turning on that furnace unless Dennis Quaid shows up and tells me to head to Mexico) typing on blogger. Actually I am more pecking than typing because the aforementioned girl is sleeping on my other arm and I have lost all feeling in my fingers.

My life hasn't exactly turned out the way I envisioned at 16, but I realized tonight that it is exactly how it should have unfolded. I have something now that I hadn't penciled into the earlier plan, I found someone who will fall asleep in my arms and put my hand to sleep, someone that will read my blog and tell me that the post on Constituency did make sense and was not just a slew of incomprehensible ramblings from a wanna be writer, I found someone that gave up her life to become a part of mine. She has quickly become the most important thing in my life and right now, my only purpose is to make sure that she never feels that she is not special. The happiness I could have had living as a wealthy bachelor in Chicago is nothing compared to how complete I feel when she smiles (although she is usually smiling when she sees a baby - and that brings a whole new busload of troubles!). She is my life, and I couldn't have planned it better.

So, for now it is just me, the sleeping wonder, and the space heater; Forming new plans to change the world and make a difference in the world. Or to make babies, which ever comes first.


And somewhere down the road we will be filthy, stinking rich.