Double Flee A

Thoughts from the IV room, my home away from home.

First of all, always make sure to use a syringe twice the size you need when drawing up ceftazidime, or you'll have to do it over. It creates gas and if you don't give it a lot of room to expand, blows up.

I find it really irritating to have something that's obviously ridiculous that's also widely accepted. Take patriotism. You can't just love or hate America, and if you think you can, you're an idiot. It's too broad a subject to have feelings about. You can like certain things about our political system and dislike others! You can like things about our culture and not others, and so on and so forth, but you can't take America, point at it, and say, "Now thar's what I love! Let's take all of 'em who don't love it lak I do and go git 'em!" To have people accusing people of not loving something enough obfuscates specific issues, and also serves to diminish the importance of critical thought. The implications of that cannot be overestimated.

Also, Saddam Hussein was not a dictator, he was an elected president. If you think he was a dictator, you are wrong. If you think it's ok to think he's a dictator even though he wasn't, you're scary, and if you think it's ok to think that he was a dictator because the election wasn't fair, check out our last election and notice that you might as well call George Bush a dictator, because I'm not familiar with the details of the Iraqi elections, but I am with ours, and that dude wasn't elected fairly, period. Bush has already been a dictator for years now.

posted by dale @ 12:50 PM