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February 7
My senior year of high school: As my uncle lay dying of AIDS in the hospital, a classmate of mine explained to our AP psychology class that God had created AIDS to punish gay people. I didn’t say anything. My uncle was gay, and I was afraid that would only cement his point. It’s 17 years later. Apparently, God didn’t know when to quit. He punished homosexuals and heterosexuals, Blacks and Whites, Latinos, …Read more 
February 5 Today’s Wear Red Day, but it’s not a fashion statement. It’s a life statement: to build awareness of women’s heart disease. Today women are at greater risk of fatal heart attack than men. Each year more women die of cardiovascular disease than cancer, tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria combined. While mortality rates for men have gone down, the danger for women has risen. Around the world 16 women die of cardiovascular illness every minute. Recognizing the early …Read more 
November 19 Privy at Goat Peak, Curt Smith November 19 is World Toilet Day. You should be in for a funny post. Unfortunately you are not. Poor sanitation kills more people each year than AIDS, but you won’t see any celebrities sporting brown ribbons at this year’s Oscars, and discussions of toilets still emit a response from educated adults akin to the uncomfortable, strained snickering of 7th graders during a sex ed lesson. “As we …Read more 
May 31 Today is No Tobacco Day, instituted by the World Health Organization in 1987. Originally observed on April 7, 1988 as a day of “No Smoking”, the name was changed to reflect the dangers of all forms of tobacco, and the date was moved to May 31, we assume to celebrate the birthday of Clint Eastwood.
Used to be no movie star would be caught live in front of a camera without a cigarette …Read more April 25 Statistically, you’re more likely to be struck by lightning, crushed by a vending machine, or flattened by falling airplane parts than to be killed by a shark. In terms of deadliest animals, sharks barely make the top ten and are superseded by the vicious jellyfish (100 human deaths per year) and hippopotami (200 DPY). Clocking in at #7 are lions (250) #6 Bees (400) #5 Elephants (600) #4 Crocodiles (2000) #3 Scorpians (5000) #2 Snakes (100,000) 
April 15 Here it’s been over a year and we’ve yet to celebrate any holidays devoted to Belgians. Today, April 15, ends all that. No, the Belgians didn’t invent taxes, but they did produce a priest by the name of Father Damien, and not the demon-exorcising priest of horror movie fame. Our Father Damien was a very real, breathing human being from Flemish Brabant. He was born in 1840 and became a Picpus Brother in the Congregation of …Read more |
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