Bits

Life's tough for a blogger these days..with all the crap thats going down everywhere.
When you throw into the mix the sardonic demands of a hectic residency program,it's almost a fatal concoction.I'm in a pretty good mood today though,as my very beloved kid brother celebrates another great year.Happy birthday,Bade!

This had been a long memorial weekend and several things were listed in the "to do list"...but as usual, only a fraction ended up being done.Quite apart from all the blown-up body parts that both CNN and MSNBC were intent on showing us at close quarters beamed direct from Iraq,there was little else to fibrillate a feeble heart.Some events clashed,so painful cancellations had to be made...like that cook-out my wife's classmate had invited us to.

A lot of moans accompany the current gas prices that seemed destined to compete with that NASSA shuttle to Mars....only noone claps when it breaks the $4.00 ceiling in there neighbourhood....in stark contrast to the delirious clap offering resonating around that small NASSA shuttle control room as the mission touched down on the martian surface.Couldn't you just tell which of those nerds in your 10th grade class would eventually end up working for NASSA?!
Americans meanwhile have been forced to change old habits.Bigger is no longer better,even in Texas!There are far fewer hummers on the streets of Cleveland this spring compared to the last.Car dealerships would offer any incentives ranging from a year's worth of free gas to "buy- one-get-one-free"(KIA spectra)...times are hard...America is bleeding.

Hillary Clinton has decided she would be a true clintonian gladiator and refuse to pack it in...so the soap opera continues.Barack,though seems intent on making her flagging campaign little more than a postscript of a very boring Harry-Potter book.Jim Web is sponsoring any Iraq related bill he can pen to increase his veep chances which he struggles to deny at every radio/TV interview he can get a slot at.Politicians must think we are all a bunch of morons!
My heart goes out to Ted Kennedy though...with that terrrible gliomatosis.I only hope its not Glioblastoma multiforme...that monster diagnosis all 4th year med students like to rattle....but none would wish on even their enemies!

Permit me to end this post with a word for a true Nigerian gospel music legend Evang. Sunny Okosun who yesterday passed on.May his soul rest in peace.
May the souls of the 60,000 victims of the Chinese earthquake in Sinchuan province also rest in peace.