How vain are you?

I don't feel like cancer has made me a better person either. Quite honestly, I'm a heck of a lot bitchier and I seem to get a lot less done. 

Cancer made me even MORE intolerant of stupidity!! I just cannot STAND the dumbing down of North America!!!

Leah - I don sphull so good, but I did make a GREAT tee shirt for the Month of October:  PHUQUE PINK

I was learning to be "constructively selfish" long b4 bc, but I notice now I am not willing to put up with anything I don't want to be with, around, near, or hear, see or smell!

The 'dumbing down' of the USA is so TRAGIC.  Since when, and who the phuque decided that a characteristic of the President of the United States should be "someone we'd want to have a beer with?"  I MEAN WHO????  I want a person a lot (LOT) smarter, wiser, more compassionate and all that stuff than I am, or will ever be.  Don't get me started....this celebrity culture has run seriously amok, and yes, I DID cancel my Vogue subscription, and my Vanity Fair along with it.  Gar-baaaaaaage, Diana Vreeland must be screaming in her grave.

Hey, when I said North America, that includes Canada, too, eh?

My Dad used to tell me to not let anyone see how smart I was so someone would love me!!! Even as an adult he would tell me that. He said I intimidated people. Wow! Glad I didn't listen to him! He also told me if I lost some weight my DH would love me more!! 

Maybe they need to give us one of these when we finish chemo:

barbe, you will NEVER ( NEVAH) convince me that Canada is as dumbdowned as the USA. Nevah.  I shudder at the "americanization" of the world, when I lived in London, in the 1970's, and saw my first KFC, I nearly got sick on the street!   Seriously.  We ma have "imported" the idea of some of the "reality tv" from other parts, but we've definitely degraded it more than one can imagine.  And, I have to imagine, cuz I've never watched.  Just read about it online.

Momine - IT'S YOURS!  PHUQUE PINK.  AND ALL PINKWASHING.  If I hear one more of think green live pink, buy pink guns, "waddle for the cure" ( do ya think we'd get sued for holding an event called Waddle for the Cure) - horrendous, it has almost come to the time where we need to cut the month of october out of the calendar.

Now Selena, next time any one tries to give you woo, I think you should tell them to put it where the coffeeenemas are supposed to go ;-)

It is a beautiful essay, it really is 

SunflowersMA,  LOL!  You seriously could make a ton of moolah if you can copyright that phrase and get t-shirts on the market by next Oct.

elimar - it's yours - go for it.  Really.  I'm not into making money....just painting now.... ;-)

I agree to, regarding orac. I see no harm, and potential good in anything that makes someone feel better or provides symptom relief. However, those who comment on the blog are sharks! Sarcastic, name calling, mud slinging,and snarky. A very rough crowd, indeed.

Caryn

Barbe,

Although we all have our own opinions, orac has his own blog which promotes science based medicine. As far as I know, he does not participate in trolling behavior on other sites.

Caryn

Oh, I didn`t mean that I thought orac was a troll, but I do see how my wording implied that. I`m sure I remember someone with a very similar name that was VERY aggressive on the alternative AND regular threads about how to fight the cancer with stuff like crap from your sink drain, or whatever. 

I agree that a good diet without added chemicals is healthier, but show me a food product including organic that doesn`t have something in it. Organic is GMO`d stuff now. The only thing that is truly clean is HERITAGE seeds. That`s it. People have been blinded to think organic is `good`, but those plants have to be treated somehow. It`s the `somehow`part that we`ll find out about years from now that will be the bad news......  I know in Japan that human feces is used for fertilizer and they tried that in Mexico years ago on strawberries and got caught!! So, you really want an organic berry? I`ll take mine with chemicals, please.

We`re also talking on another thread about `natural flavouring`. Do yàll know that the anal glands of a beaver mimic the taste of vanilla and are added into a lot of our foods? Anal glands are `natural`so it`s allowed under the law. That`s why labels can be so deceiving. I remember when `fat free` stuff started coming out so people thought it was good for diets. Not so much; they were full of carbs for flavour!!!

ta, ta to vanilla...

There are several good websites for buying Heritage Seeds.  Esp. tomatoes, they really DO taste like tomatoes.