Saves millions -ends messy handwriting !

              " Drugs errors occurring daily ", I read on page 2 of

    today's Providence Journal ( Sept.11 ) .  In hospitals -where loved

    ones - depend on the kindness....and the competence ... of strangers.

               One factor in these numerous drug errors : " pharmacists

    incorrectly reading a doctor's messy handwriting ".  I'll bet that

    messy handwriting is also costing  business dearly.

                Years ago the hand calculator came to the rescue of the

    math and science student ... and in fact made  everyday arithmetic

    quicker and easier for all of us.

            A similar convenient gadget must soon replace tedious and

    often illegible handwriting - and just printing out easy to read

    notes.

                    Along with his stethoscope, the good doctor will

    have his  compact digital note maker. As easy to read as a hospital

    bill !

                I 'm sure such gadgets  are now on the market. Some

    genius must make them more marketable.

                   In the future we will only have to handwrite our

    signature.

Which " Buddy " and a booze problem ?

I was downtown yesterday morning and could have

    witnessed " the prince of the city " coming out of the Biltmore

    Hotel to face his own  sad judgment day. But I spared myself

    the sadness of seeing " Buddy " come to this - jail bound in

    all probability. I just wanted him to be fairly judged by the

    people on election day. I don't like most judges in their robed

    arrogance: hearing YOUR HONOR too often goes to their head;and

    always LOOKING DOWN on common humanity. A character in a Camus

    novel steals a famous portrait - " The Just Judges "- and hides

    it in his basement for years. ( he himself was a liberal lawyer )

               Just a bit of advice for " Buddy ". I suspect that

    the good Buddy and the bad Buddy are connected to a booze problem.

     How many wrong decisions were made with the help of all those

    business lunch cocktails ?  Prison might at least detoxify you-

    from booze, cigarettes, and power.

                In many Rhode Island scandals  BOOZE plays an

    unrecognized role. I hope " Buddy " finds  some serenity in

    his later years. Adios to the toxic Buddy. A sad good bye to

    the good Buddy.

Marine nephew: " We're going to Iraq "

                  Close to a pacifist myself, I was worried about my

    nephew , Chris Covil, who is scheduled to graduate from Marine Corp

    Boot Camp this Friday in South Carolina. In an odd way I am glad he

    made it ( ??? ) as I questioned his willingness to accept authority:

    " Look kid you VOLUNTEERED for this hell ! "

                 My sister and her husband are going to drive to the

    ceremony. Why not fly ? I thought ? I guess Sept 11 did change our

    life style a little.

                  Chris, I hear, is all but certain that he 'll be sent

    to Iraq. If he personally kills Sadaam , I will only applaud the deed.

              But any war with Iraq  could - without a strong NATO and

    United Nations Alliance turn into a Vietnam type nightmare. Remember

    how much the  Russians loathed the tyrant, Joseph Stalin ?  But then

    remember the battle of Stalingrad !

              And no war against Iraq should be waged without the presence

    of thousands of Israeli combat troops - willing to go all the way to

    Baghdad.

               Let's see how brave they are against people who can shoot

    back !

                  For the Islamic fanatic all Americans are alike - all

    equally infidels - except out and out traitors.

                 Perhaps a terrible military defeat will make  Allah seem

    as unreal as  Mars, the old Roman god of war.

                  But in general whatever God exists has no personal preference

    among human types. There are no CHOSEN PEOPLE. But there is still Good vs.

    Evil as an approximate - pragmatic - TRUTH.

                When GOOD triumphs on earth, the asteroid will hit. We will

    all be CHOSEN to be hydrogen atoms again !

                 Semper Fidelis !

Union decline and " political correctness "

         There is a myth that the news media is imbued with left-wing

    prejudice. But why should the billionaire owners of newspapers,

    magazines, radio and TV stations leave the management of these

    powerful voices of " public opinion " to " dizzy leftists " ?

              How rarely does the public get a WORKING CLASS slant

    on the news ! It is hardly an exaggeration to say that most

    newspapers editors  have one purpose in life : to stifle a little

    thing called  CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS. For years now the phony academic

    Left have tried to substitute an innocuous mindset called


    " political correctness " - that DIVIDES the masses into small

    minded, self-centered, mutually  antagonistic groups that blind

    themselves to the really dominant forces in human social life.

               If the politically correct Left had Marxist backbones -

    and had great influence on the news media, then why has union

    membership declined here in the United States - the land of the FREE-

    to a miserable 9 percent of the work-force ?

              For almost a generation rather ludicrous race, gender,

    ethnic conflict has replaced  solid, rational CLASS STRUGGLE.

                 And clearly just about all the worlds major religions

    prefer crackpot mysticism to anything as subversive as  CLASS

    consciousness.

               The Islamic crackpots crash airplanes into tall office

    buildings - killing thousands of infidels - in the name of Allah.

    Jewish crackpots arrogantly build settlements on disputed land -

    with the delusion that THEY are the CHOSEN PEOPLE . The Catholic

    Pope has one relentless message to the destitute of the earth :

    KEEP THE BAMBINOS COMING !

                Our pious president, George W. Bush, wants to  wage

    war against Iraq - unprovoked and in contempt of Allied opinion -

    to the tune of " Onward Christian Soldiers ".

                  Is  Russia really better off as a capitalist society ?

     Gangster capitalism has ruined the former Soviet Union -possibly

    for centuries. Wasn't dialectic materialism easier to put up with

    than mass drunkenness and Scientology ?  Under the planned economy,

    the average Russian citizen could at least hope to reach age 65.

               The collapse of the Soviet Union was brainlessly

    misinterpreted by bourgeois ideologists as the vindication of

    a ruthless, reckless, soul-destroying, global capitalism.

              Whada ya mean: " workers of the world unite " ?

         Happy Labor Day !  Now you working class people have

    nothing to lose but your lottery tickets. Happily you got

    your Budweiser back - thanks to those damned Teamsters.