Weird Blood

Our friend with the famous grandma is in the hospital because she has, basically, no platelets.  Like 5,000 in her whole body.  The doctor is not sure if her immune system is detroying them or if she’s just stopped making them all together.  She even had to have a platelet transplant.
Not transplant, but you know [...]

Scattered Shot

I have some stuff on my mind, but haven’t yet managed to pull it together into anything coherent or meaningful.  So, let’s do a quick run-down of interesting Tennessee stuff:
–Say Uncle:
If you guys get in there and start passing every socially conservative wish list item that causes turgid little nubbins among the god squad (who [...]

Okay, Republicans, Let’s Talk Pro-Life

So, the state Republicans have been pretty clear about what their agenda for the coming legislative session is–defund Planned Parenthood, send the money to other non-abortion providing centers, amend the Constitution to take away a women’s right to an abortion, and pass more measures establishing personhood for fetuses, if not explicitly, then at least implicitly.
Then [...]

Well, This May Shoot That Family Myth

Christian inadvertently roped me in to trying the two-week free trial at Ancestry.com.  I was up all night playing with it.  The fun part for me, so far, has been trying to guess which ones of my relatives are already uploading family trees based on how thorough the information already there is.  I thought for [...]