car accident

In his speech at the Democratic Convention, Joe Biden told the story of his wife and baby being killed in a car accident, and how he took the oath of office at his young son's hospital bedside.

This week has been one of the most emotional I have had in years. Many of you know from twitter that my family lost a member unexpectedly. My Father-in-Law was in a car accident and passed away. As I type, Mark and I and all the kids are piled up in the car, driving 10 hours to his mother's home.

I am intrigued by spam - not getting it, mind you, but how spammers re-target their crap to bypass spam catchers. First they try using a word just like it’s spelled, like drug names. They they start substituting @’s for a’s and 1’s for i’s or l’s and 0’s for o’s.

10,000 Monkey and a Camera reacts to news that folks with an association with James Dobson’s Focus on the Family are praying for rain on Aug. 28, the day Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for President at Invesco Field:

Don Worrell is the VP of the Nashville Rescue Mission. And, I have known him longer than anyone else in Nashville, some 25+ years. Well, his family was involved in a very bad car accident and were very badly injured. Prayers on their behalf are needed immediately.

According to the following statistic and related study, I am overdue for my next car accident:

Nashville drivers are 10 times less likely to get in a crash than the average U.S. driver and average about 11 years between collisions.

Franklin , Tennessee , er , ah , make that a parking lot @ Brentwood and BVD got to talk with candidate for Williamson County Sheriff , Tim Taylor.

BVD : Hi Mr. Taylor , thank you for giving me a minute of your time
Tim Taylor : Glad to do it for the people , ya know , gotta think of those people , ya know

I am a caretaker. I make people soup and fetch people crackers when they're sick. When my grandmother lived with us, it didn't matter I was a teenager, I took care of her. Dad's heart problems, yep, helped nurse him back to health while Mom went to work. My brother had a terrible car accident, who waited by his bedside, me again. I need to be needed and to feel useful.

Via Radley Balko, we learn that a woman in Mississippi has been convicted of manslaughter because she did drugs and gave birth to a stillborn baby.

Twelve years.

I've given so much thought lately to the choices we make versus those that seem made for us. The majority of the things we do, I believe we do of our own volition. We may not want to do them. We do them anyway.