Poor guy’s pretty banged up. He landed on his left side, hitting his head, elbow and foot and doing damage to each. No concussion, though, thank God. Dad has a broken heel and a broken arm. Apparently he fell about 5 feet. He’s tough and in good shape for his age, but broken bones are serious for anybody 71 years old.

Ironically, the man was a lineman for Edison for 35 years, and falls off a loading dock in the city dump. If you’re wondering whether a claim/litigation for premises liability has cross my mind, you betcha. Maybe we’ll discuss it when he’s better.

I don’t understand the surprise over Rush Limbaugh’s incendiary remark on ESPN. In the words of NFL VP Joe Browne, “ESPN knew what it was getting when they hired Rush Limbaugh.”

Limbaugh is a man very much like George W. Bush, in that he’s deeply in love with his own opinions, seeing very little need to question them.

“Judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.”

— Georg Lichtenberg

My Mom and Dad have been up in northern California for a week, visiting my brother Joe and his family. Spending days with their grandkid, which I’m sure they’ve loved. They were due to start home this evening.

My Mom called a little while ago. Dad went with Joe to haul some things to the dump. Dad took a fall there, and hurt his ankle. Paramedics thought it might be broken, and he was at the hospital getting x-rays when Mom called.

Please remember my Dad in your prayers or meditations. His name is John. He’s the best Dad in the world, and it’s hard to think of him in pain.

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Dad has a broken heel and a broken arm. Apparently he fell about 5 feet. I don’t have all the details, but hopefully they’ll be home tomorrow night. He’s tough and in good shape for his age, but broken bones are serious for anybody 71 years old.

Ironic, the man was a lineman for Edison for 35 years, and falls in the county dump. I don’t know if there was a wall or a pit or what … But if you’re wondering whether a claim/litigation for premises liability has cross my mind, you betcha. Later, when he’s better.

Bly poems before dawn of 9/11

Robert Bly’s poems on the Poets Against the War site.

Peace.

Mercury News | 08/31/2003 | Spamming sleazebags ruining e-mail

Dan Gilmore is right. Personally, I’m a proponent of summary executions of spammers. The spammer is a biohazard with no redeeming value.

Japander.com

Check out Ahhnold san in Japanese commercials. Make your day a little more surreal. They’ll make you wish the recall election was today!

Please see All That Arises for tonight’s blog entry.

Pablo Neruda on making a broom, or not. [Poetry Daily]

The New Yorker: The Critics: Books

Poet Mark Strand on Neruda’s life, and a new book of his poems.

Kyle, I gotta tell ya, I don’t agree with some of the items you post and I am lukewarm about a few, but your mini-rant about drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens hits the bulls-eye. I, like you, don’t get it. Absolutely don’t understand the Assembly’s thinking, even after I read the article you linked to and read a couple of others.

I’ll tell you this: If I’m on the lam from a bank-heist in Texas, I’m sure as hell heading to California for a quick new identity. What the hell can these idiots be thinking?

Erik

One of the Texas 11 has gone home, in what looks like a win for the republicans. [news] … He promises a fight on the Senate floor … You can’t really say he doesn’t have guts.

Requiem for a police dog.