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Friday, February 6th, 2009View Larger Map I’m very pleased with the progress of WelcomeToBaltimoreHon.com. It’s a sort of love note for the city that adopted me almost 30 years ago.
2008 is Enough
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Biting the hand that reached out to touch me
Monday, January 26th, 2009I received a telemarketing call at 4:22 p.m. on January 13, 2009, in the middle of an ordinary work afternoon. It was one of those annoying recorded messages selling dentures, of all things. Although my home phone number has been on the National Do Not Call Registry nearly since its inception, we still get telemarketing [...]
Jesus, Music and Chainsaws
Monday, September 8th, 2008Meet Forthman Murff, the man who nearly cut his own head off with a chainsaw and lived to talk about it. The most popular clip at my web site is “Strange Cases: The Worst of Current Research,” a piece I wrote for the 10th Anniversary issue of JEMS: The Journal of Emergency Medical Services. This [...]
Good Eats
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008An eyewitness account of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The implications of the Human Genome Project. Heart transplantation, liver transplantation in an HIV-positive person with hemophilia, and surgery to separate conjoined twins (twice!). Dollhouse scenes of brutal deaths. Growing pharmaceuticals like food crops. Liquid breathing. Cocaine plastic. The secret of color-changing Silly Putty, hugging [...]
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