Rodney Roe's Blog

Still Trying to Make Sense of It All

Rodney Roe

Rodney Roe
Location
Clayton, Georgia, USA
Birthday
November 22
Bio
I currently place myself among the curmudgeons of the world. Always thinking about why things are, and how they may be better, I tend to rant at times, but mostly I just look for a reasoned discourse. I have previously worked as a cotton scout, grocery bag boy, cannery worker, and am a physician. I am married, have two daughters and four granddaughters. I retired due to vision loss in 2005 after a 30 year career as a hospital pathologist. Fortunate to have a wide range of interests, life following retirement has been good.

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January 13, 2013 05:58PM
“I haven't posted on this site in months for a variety of reasons. I hope the problems have been resolved with interminable wait times. Rodney”
About: The Last of the Marmalade
May 05, 2012 08:03AM
“I've read most of the real history about our Founding Fathers. Could your last bullet point have been describing Andrew Jackson? The canonization of th…”
About: AMERICA: From Where I See It
April 16, 2012 04:12AM
“jmac1949, I know what you say is right about the Gilded Age. The excesses of that age, though sparked child labor laws, the creation of the FDA and ot…”
About: Corporate Practices and the Decay of American Society
April 14, 2012 06:21PM
“Thanks. This has been such a compressed Spring here. The jingle should have been "March showers bring April flowers." The azaleas and dogw…”
About: FLYday - Crow With Nest Material
April 14, 2012 07:53AM
“I'm reading this on Saturday 14. I lived yesterday oblivious. I love watching kids jump rope and loved it as a kid, myself. r”
About: Double Dutch Dog
April 13, 2012 04:34PM
“Bob, there is nothing selfish about the pain you feel. Pharmaceutical companies are cold, calculating corporations that balance the deaths they cause…”
About: Death in Hell's Kitchen Last Night
April 13, 2012 12:16PM
“We all won the genetic lottery in one way or another. It's more like a crap shoot. Some of us come up boxcars and some of us shake eyes, but most are…”
About: 'WINNING' THE SADISTIC LOTTERY
April 10, 2012 11:04AM
“ManhattanWhiteGirl, thanks. This azalea is in our yard. It may be an azalea called Kirin Karume. The former owner of our home was a gardener and the…”
About: Easter Past
April 09, 2012 11:06AM
“For twenty years we lived in a house built in 1924. Two magnolias were planted in the front yard when the house was built , that were enormous when we…”
About: Easter Past
April 09, 2012 07:23AM
“I have a friend who, upon arriving in the South in Fall asked, "what are all of those scraggly bushes." "Wait until Spring", was t…”
About: Easter Past
April 08, 2012 09:19PM
“Mushrooms and poetry make everything better, and gin is made to be sipped savoring that oily, juniper flavor. R”
About: Photos: Read Tags: No gulp many brew-hops. No Gulp Gin?
April 08, 2012 09:11PM
“Thanks to J.P.Hart for introducing me to phrases.org.uk. As he points out mare's nest has two meanings and the "illusory" meaning is much ol…”
About: The Etymologist's Corner: Lying in a Mare's Nest
April 08, 2012 08:41AM
“It will be interesting to see how much interest there is in word origins. I've noticed that some dictionaries no longer include the derivation of the…”
About: The Etymologist's Corner: Lying in a Mare's Nest
April 07, 2012 09:34PM
“" I am a writer. I love finding the exact spot where every word in the dictionary belongs." I think you are. R”
About: I Am A Writer
April 07, 2012 08:08AM
“Poppi, I was hoping that you would comment. I can't explain rates for coverage. The private insurance companies will tell you that they are based on…”
About: Obamacare and my Granddaughter's Kidney
April 06, 2012 10:29PM
“In follow-up to my comment about diet. Studies have not been very promising that diet has a positive effect. In fact, here is one suggesting that the…”
About: Alzheimer’s Kills and Will Bankrupt America Unless We Fight
April 06, 2012 09:03PM
“I just read the interchange between you and MWG. I reread my comment and noticed 2 or 3 dropped letters (know instead of known, for example), but I fi…”
About: Alzheimer’s Kills and Will Bankrupt America Unless We Fight
April 06, 2012 05:13AM
“@kate o'hehir-Without going through all of the steps, let me recommend: http://open. salon.com/blog/skypixie0/2012/ 04/02/inserting_youtube_videos _on_your…”
About: An Experiment in Uploading Video
April 06, 2012 04:13AM
“Rowan, you're smarter than I am, ergo you must be brilliant ;)”
About: Obamacare and my Granddaughter's Kidney
April 06, 2012 04:02AM
“At some level of consciousness the inconsistency of a conservatives moral values must be in conflict with the reality of where adherance to those value…”
About: Why Some Conservatives Vote Against Their Interests
April 05, 2012 10:02PM
“My wife read some interesting claims about the effects of diet on the incidence of developing Alzheimer's disease. I need to verify, but they were cla…”
About: Alzheimer’s Kills and Will Bankrupt America Unless We Fight
April 05, 2012 09:48PM
“Beauty1947, you can't beat Ray Charles with or without friends. When I think of "cryin' in your beer songs" Born to Lose immediately comes…”
About: An Experiment in Uploading Video
April 05, 2012 09:12PM
“Thanks to skypixieo who posted on how to do this. I had to make a few changes to get it to work, but I got it to work!”
About: An Experiment in Uploading Video
April 05, 2012 07:56AM
“ManhattanWhiteGirl, Speech Pathology or whatever it is now called. She should have been a physician. She is brilliant and would have been excellent.…”
About: Obamacare and my Granddaughter's Kidney
April 05, 2012 07:49AM
“Sky, thanks so much. I have struggled, trying to follow the directions on O.S. without success. I plan to try this right away. I noted Scanner's comme…”
About: Inserting YouTube Videos On Your Blog
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