‘Commentary’ Archives
Hip Replacement Time
By Peter Molenaar Ever have trouble engaging the medical system in this country? Try growing up in a medical family as I did. It was my father who examined all the private parts”¦mine as well as those of all my classmates. It followed that for years I returned to Cannon Falls for the free service, but did so only when the course of household remedy proved to be inadequate. It was just within the past year that I entered one of the local clinics to find a primary physician outside my family. Although it was a painful left hip which demanded attention, I would submit to a gamut of tests and probes. Cholesterol “somewhat elevated”, thyroid “needs help”, prostate “no problem”. As for the hip, x-rays revealed lost cartilage, the left hip being bone on bone. They call it arthritis. Turns out you get only so much cartilage to begin with. Wear it out and the deal is done. Moving on”¦ (more…)
Frank Reflections: June 2013
By Frank Erickson “Commander, thank you for giving us another interview. The readers of The Alley Newspaper are very appreciative.” “You”'re welcome, nice to be here.” “Commander, let me start by commenting on the bombs that blew up during the Bostom Marathon”¦if the Tsarnaev brothers had attacked Boston with a military, and hit ”˜military targets”', they would have been free to maim and kill as many civilians as they wanted to, for as long as they wanted to, say, up to 8 years with over 100,000 killed, like the U.S. did in Iraq”¦Commander, who”'s guilty of the largest crimes?” It is not that simple, you”'re making an unfair comparison. The terrorists in Boston were deliberately targeting civilians” “But they didn”'t get close to 100,000 of them. I”'m just trying to find out how one gets the ticket ”˜in”', how you get yourself in.” (more…)
