Flamingos, etc.

Today was the big day. I had my colonoscopy. Don't you wish you could've been with me? Seriously folks, it's really not that bad. And just think how much easier it is than having advanced colon cancer. Get over the YUCK factor, and (after checking with your family doc to see if it's appropriate), make that appointment! Oh, yes - everything was normal - just the expected diverticula. He said to come back in 5-10 years.

The fun part of today's event - and yes, there really was one - was that my doctor has a love affair with pink flamingos. How funny to come into this tastefully decorated office and see it full of flamingos - paintings, photographs, models, sculptures. The curtains around my holding cubicle were embroidered with flamingos. The switchplates on the light fixtures had flamingos on them. The doctor carried a pink pen, with a flamingo and feathers on it. It does tend to put the patients more at ease.
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Retraction: Golly, we had been pretty impressed with Jeremiah Wright after his interview with Bill Moyers on Friday. But the more he's speaks, the bigger the hole he's digs. Amazing.
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Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first. -Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)
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And what would today's photo be, other than a flamingo!