How they Screwed the Subway Hero

The subway hero is a guy in New York who risked his life to save somebody else. They way I understand it is he jumped down onto the subway tracks to save person having a seizure by pulling them both into a crawl space on the other side of the tracks. A truly selfless act committed in a very selfish city. He is a hero.

Now for the disturbing part which proves that no good deed goes unpunished - This guy has been completely fucked over by everyone who's gotten near him. He lost his job, his time is not his own because he is expected to make so many public appearances, someone screwed him out of the rights to his own life story, he had to pay his own expenses for his trip to Washington. He can barely afford his own legal fees, much less the taxes on the "free" jeeps he got from Chrysler and Deal or No Deal. I feel for him.

A Mo(u)rning Portrait

At the Waterfrong CVS earlier today (store #1348) , I overheard a distraught elderly gentlman patiently trying to pick up medicine for his wife/daughter (I wasn't paying that much attention). Apparently CVS had misplaced the prescritions he dropped off yesterday so that he could have them today. The CVS technician offered neither to call the doctor (most of which have answering services for emergencies) nor to call the CVS pharmacy tech working yesterday (whom he described well - I've been to that pharmacy before) to find out if she knew if she had misplaced them.

Instead of helping him resolve the issue, she blew him off and shooed him out. When he asked if she would call the doctor about the prescriptions, she said it was unlikely the doc would answer and his best bet would be to come back tomorrow. She also refused to call the accurately-describted pharmacy tech. As he patiently pointed out (if it were ME, I'd be boiling over at this point), he had dropped off the prescriptions Yesterday so he could have them TODAY for his sick loved one. No one should have to wait a day for basic medical treatment because a retail employee is lazy.

Watching him shuffle out of the door has darkened my mood. I hope that missing one day of medication won't harm his loved one's medical treatment. I wish customer service were a bigger priority for CVS pharmacies.

I think I'll transfer my prescriptions to a different branch or find a entirely new pharmacy in my neighborhood - hopefully I can find a locally-owned one.

Italian Government Forced 13-year-old to have an abortion

Turning a hypothetical government ban on abortion on its head: The Italian government is forcing a 13-year-old to have an abortion. This is a true life cautionary tale of what can happen when we the people consent to let the government have control over reproductive decisions.

Banning abortion is just the first step on the slippery slope of giving all control over reproduction to the government. Laws regulating who is allowed to reproduce in this country were passed at the hight of the American Eugenics movement in the early 20th Century. As a side note, the Nazi Regime obtained much information on forced sterilization etc. from American States that had passed Eugenics laws already.

If I were a stronger pro-lifer, I might be more concerned that banning abortion in the U.S. would be just the first step towards eventually mandating abortions for specified categories people. Think of a dystopia even more twisted than Brave New World, 1984, or modern-day China.

And of course, this happens in China too, but in a Western nation?

Ok, so check out this Burrito story

nbc4.com - News - Police: Burrito Sparks 7-Eleven Fight

Two presumably drunk people got into a fight over a burrito at 7-11 (you'd have to be drunk for this to happen). Drunk Guy A nukes his burrito, goes up to pay for it and realizes he needs to run to the car for more money. Drunk Guy B sees the already-nuked burrito and buys it as Drunk Guy A comes back into the store. DGA then starts fighting with DGB and it spills outside into the parking lot. DGA's girlfriend then releases the hound and their pitbull flies out of the car and bites 3 people, including one guy who wasn't even part of this.

Wow. All this over a burrito. I'll have to remember that next time I'm drunk at 7-11.

So this one time...

Rachel, bicurious and very sexual, met a couple that were swingers. She began hooking up with them regularly, and then began a torrid affair with the husband. This affair lasted about two years, during which time Rachel befriended Susan, the wife and hanging out with her when Richard, the husband, wasn't around. Susan eventually discovered that Richard and Rachel were seeing each other behind her back and divorced Richard.

(True story. Names changed to protect the guilty).

I later end up hooking up with a friend of Rachel's (a one-night stand that lasted too long) who ended up telling me the above story. Since Rachel had just told this girl that I was a bad guy because of my political beliefs, I didn't have much pause in repeating this story. This ended up causing some tension in their relationship and provided the catalyst for the end of that friendship because the person I told it to repeated it back to Rachel disbelievingly, and Rachel got upset with the girl with whom I was hooking up.

I do feel bad about repeating this story and the chain of events caused by my actions. I especially feel bad that I inadvertently ended a friendship because I thought this was juicy gossip. My only defense is that I was careless, thoughtless person back then and have changed since then.

(Names changed to protect the guilty)

Ananova - Man peed way out of avalanche

Ananova - Man peed way out of avalanche

Well, that's one way to do it - desperate times and all that.