29 Years Ago Today
…for no particular reason (except maybe yesterday’s post), here is a clip from Thanksgiving Day (or night) 1983. This is brilliant, but it seems like the audience didn’t quite get it.
QUITTING: Reason No. 73
In this, the month of the annual Great American Smokeout, we’ve been dropping a few subtle hints for our readers (paper and blog) who smoke – or know someone who does. That’s a small group growing smaller. It’s not like we’re some Third World nation where the dumb masses (please don’t say those two words together; they are two separate …
WINNING
You know how every store tries to one-up their competition on Black Friday by opening an hour earlier, then another hour and another and another? And pretty soon stores are opening at 3:00 a.m., then 2:00 a.m., then midnight? Well, finally someone with two brain cells to rub together said enough is enough. That person happened to be working for …
The New Issue: here
I’ll be the first to admit, a cover story about pneumonia sounds booooooooring. But take a few moments to read it and you will probably be as amazed as I was at how serious and pervasive pneumonia is. It’s in keeping with our unofficial motto: if you take the time to read it, it should be worth your time to …
TONIGHT medical history comes to life
Friends of the Medical Examiner Michael Wolff and Janis Ann Parks have teamed up to take a unique trip through the pages of Augusta’s medical history. Wolff is the entrepreneur behind Augusta Ghost Trolley, tours that began in October of 2011, offered every Friday and Saturday evenings at 7 and 9 pm departing from the Augusta Museum of History. Tonight’s …
ASK A QUESTION…
…get an answer. The Medical Examiner and actor Gary Oldman are old friends and he’s a great supporter of the paper, so it was a pleasure to run into him the other day. We asked him who likes the Medical Examiner, and we just happened to have the old iPhone out in camera mode. This is what he told us …
Laughter is the best medicine
On a drab Tuesday afternoon, the doctor orders a little laughter to brighten things up a little. To wit:
Want to get off the hamster wheel?
With the help of the late philosopher Alan Watts, a man who had lots of thoughts to share, the Medical Examiner hereby offers its blog readers a head start on taking the steps to a better life, and maybe even avoiding the pitfalls so commonly fallen into during the fast-approaching holiday season. It all begins with one simple question. . …
Numbers: going, going…
If you haven’t seen the Nov. 2 Medical Examiner about numbers, grab a copy at one of our dozens of CSRA newsstands before they’re all gone, or read it online (scroll down to see it below). And for more visuals that help put millions, billions and trillions into some kind of perspective an ordinary human being can grasp, scroll to …