Excuse Me, Mr. President, I'm a Believer, Too

Tough Noogies
So, this is my first ever blog post without screws and plates in my right knee. All of that hardware was successfully removed Monday morning between 11am and 1pm. I emerged from  surgery overwhelmed by pain, spent about five hours in a recovery room on heavy medication (percocet and toradol), managed to regain my wits and muster strength enough to get home Monday evening by about 6:45. Since then, I’ve been managing the pain with far less powerful medication (tramadol). Yesterday, I took myself off tramadol because I was starting to feel light-headed and nauseated, usually within an hour or so of my next dose, which made me want to take the medication sooner. I didn’t

Surgery Countdown
This coming Monday, a significant chapter in the saga of my comeback from a catastrophic knee injury will come to a close. I’m scheduled for surgery on the morning of November 23rd to fix issues with my kneecap and my quadricep tendon, remove scar tissue, and take out the nine screws and two plates installed on November 14th, 2008 to artfully and ingeniously restructure my knee. These days, it hurts when I go up or down stairs and generally when I push off of my right leg with anything more than the effort needed to walk. It is possible that after this surgery my pain will lessen, if not entirely go away. But I’ve learned how to live with a certain amount of general p

Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November

Tens of Millions Spinning in Graves
Anita Dunn contends: “”The use of the phrase ‘favorite political philosophers’ was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat — at least with a certain Fox commentator whose sense of irony may be missing.” I don’t detect any irony in the video. She is lying. Lying about her appreciation… of Mao. Mao!?!?!?!? The mainstream media response to this? Nonexistent. I found out about it from a

Premature Nobelization
Now that he has the award, how will President Obama endeavor to earn it? “I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments. But rather as an affirmation of American leadership. … I will accept this award as a call to action.” A call to act… in what way? By doing more of what apparently landed him the honor in the first place? According to the Nobel people, he won the award for his: “Extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”