In a previous life, I worked as a librarian. Well, make that "Library technical assistant", since I don't have a MLA thus wasn't qualified to be a full-fledged librarian. Nevertheless, I did work the magazine reference desk several afternoons per week.
I'm not going to post much more on that, just go read. I was there when Reagan was kicking the mentally ill out of the mental hospitals, with the complicity of idiot liberals who insisted that the mentally ill were just "misunderstood". Those were the years when we had to hire a security guard for the first time at the library...
-- Badtux the Former Library Penguin
So, could the Alzheimer's be a kind of judgement on Reagan and his enablers?
ReplyDeleteSo incredibly sad... We can spend billions in our war against brown people, but can't make sure our mentally ill are housed, fed, and treated for their illnesses.
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Rachel: Alzheimer's is not a judgement, because it punishes the loved ones that surround the person with Alzheimer's not the person with Alzheimers who swiftly loses the capability to be punished by the disease. Alzheimers is just biology. That's all. No more a "judgement" than getting struck by a falling tree branch, except in this case a failing gene.
ReplyDeleteMixter, there's more I could say about that from a personal basis, but I won't. I will just say that if it wasn't for the Veteran's Administration one of my own relatives might have been one of those babbling in the streets. Which is why the Bush Administration's gutting of the VA gets much the same response from me as Reagan's gutting of the mental health system.
i remember that...
ReplyDeleteas it was the time that the streets became flooding with talking and singing acrobates...minus the clown make-up
down here in the southwest -- we have our winter-times filled with song and dance