Mental Health Monday

I seem to be experiencing more anxiety than usual; not really sure why. Symptoms include rapid, shallow breathing & general fatigue. My psychiatric nurse practitioner wants to rule out medical reasons before we decide whether any treatment is necessary. Sigh.


"Airline will warn if sitting next to baby on flight . . . " Drudge 9/27

CRIMINAL MINDS

• Cops:  Woman put meth in bean dip serve to co-workers . . . Drudge 9/27
• 50,000 apples stolen from orchard . . . ditto

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE . . . CALIFORNIA

• Half California voters consider leaving state . . . Drudge 9/28

. . . GERMANY

"Bottoms up, fire's out:  Man puts out flames with beer in Germany. A German motorist is being credited for his quick thinking after his engine caught fire on the Autobahn. He turned to a slightly different foam extinguisher to douse the flames:  bottles of beer . . . Pulling over, the man spotted flames under the hood of his car. He quickly grabbed bottles of beer from a case in his car & quenched the fire. Authorities say the fire department responded, but there was nothing left for them to do." --Norfolk Daily News 9/25

WHAT FINAL GRADE WOULD YOU GIVE TO THESE STUDENTS' PAPERS?

Retired English teacher Tim Clancy collected some insightful quotes from his students' works.

• I would recommend this book because it teaches that prisons aren't as fun as they look on TV.
• Most of the people in Huck Finn are kind of disgusting. They're either drunks or women in bonnets.
• To his dismay, he gets killed.
• If I didn't have to read & write, I would really enjoy English class.

--Reader's Digest, June 2019

IMPEACHMENT

Does impeachment make sense in this case? I can see how Trump’s words and actions could add up to an impeachable offense here, but I don’t think it makes sense to impeach him for it. Impeachment is a political choice, to be made prudentially, and a year before an election, at a time when public trust in government is so dismally low already, and given that it’s pretty clear how such a process would end, impeachment doesn’t look wise. It would be just another performative exercise that undermines everyone involved. --Yuval Levin, National Review Online

HUMAN LIFE

Abortion has always required the acceptance of a lie. For years, the dominant lie was this: “It’s a fetus, not a baby.” Thus, an abortion only terminates a pregnancy, it doesn’t end a life. But then science revealed the truth. Within a few short weeks, this “clump of cells” has fingers and toes, eyes and a nose, a beating heart and a developing brain. This is not a bundle of tissue, but rather a bundle of joy, a life made in the image of God. --James Dobson, Townhall