Saturday, March 29, 2008
its just a matter of when
from the BBC news website
A fireman has told how he escaped death in a paragliding accident only for a scan to reveal he had terminal cancer. Steve Phillips was a father-to-be when he fell 40ft after his paraglider collapsed at the White Horse in Osmington, Dorset, on 31 July. His then pregnant partner, Becky Taylor, saw the Dorset Fire and Rescue watch manager land on his back. Mr Phillips’ daughter was born days later. A tumour in his stomach was diagnosed as Hodgkin’s lymphoma two weeks later. The 42-year-old watch manager at Weymouth fire station said he went to hospital for X-rays, which came back clear but “there must have been something [in the X-rays] they didn’t like, some sort of shadow”. Following the scan, doctors broke the news to Mr Phillips, from Broadwey in Weymouth, that he had terminal lymphatic cancer throughout his body. He has been told there is no cure and has between five and eight years to live.
Thanks for a well-thought article. I followed you all the way to the
last paragraph. I find that the song “Reason to Believe” is
Springsteen’s most Cynical Song, and yet you suggest a few sentences
later, Springsteen is an uncynical optimist. I would agree if you would
suggest The Artist is uncynical, but some of the Art (i.e. the songs and
the characters they portray) are downright cynical.
Mr. Obama reminds me of the movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” a young
naive Senator who learns how ball is really played in Washington, and
the world… it is enough to make even the most audacious spirits worry a
bit…