BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Monday, January 3, 2011

Nostrum | Define Nostrum at Dictionary.com

Nostrum Define Nostrum at Dictionary.com: "nos·trum 
–noun
1. a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
2. a scheme, theory, device, etc., esp. one to remedy social or political ills; panacea.
3. a medicine made by the person who recommends it.
4. a patent medicine.

Origin:
1595–1605; < L nostrum our, ours (neut. sing. of noster ); referring to the seller's calling the drug “our” drug Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2011.
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