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Aristus

Aristus's Journal
Aristus's Journal
May 29, 2019

Update on my cervical cancer patient: it's squamous cell carcinoma, and has not metastasized.

Squamous cell carcinoma metastasizes much more rarely than other forms of cancer. So that's the good news. And she has already started therapy. So more good news. Thank you all for your words of support for her.

May 29, 2019

Once Mueller is a private citizen again, Congress can subpoena him, right?

Barr can't do a thing about it, right?

May 27, 2019

If anybody says anything to me tomorrow about my veteran's status,

I'm going to tell them that the day is to remember those who fell in battle, which obviously ain't me.

We've gone so far in the other direction from the indifference veterans experienced during Vietnam, that now we acknowledge them when it's not specifically appropriate to do so.

May 27, 2019

Sunday Night Cannabis-Buzz.



Glad I don't have to go to work tomorrow...

I love you all...
May 27, 2019

Sunday Night Cannabis-Buzz.



Glad I don't have to go to work tomorrow...

I love you all..
May 22, 2019

Family Visit Record-Scratch Moment: my fundy step-daughter just bought Chik-Fil-A for everybody.

Mrs. Aristus' conservative fundy days are behind her, but she still has to keep peace in the family.

She asked me privately not to make a big deal out of it; to just shut up and eat.

So I did.

She didn't tell me not to make a donation to PFLAG, so that's what I'm going to do.

May 22, 2019

GODDAMMIT TO HELL! Just left a message for Housing & Urban Development.

They want to roll back the Equal Access rule and give homeless shelters the right to turn away transgender people.

I have five or six transgender people in my patient population, all of them are homeless (several of them specifically because they ARE transgender), and I'm not going to let this go by without having my voice heard.

You'd think Trump and his cronies would not want to piss off a fifty year-old, white, cisgender male Christian, but their incompetence knows no bounds, obviously.

If they even bother to call back, I'm going to let them have it.

May 18, 2019

Drunk and tearing up a little over the sheer beauty of this...

They rushed it a little, but what do I care?...

May 18, 2019

Friday Night Moscow Mule Buzz. Ask me anything.

I know it's late, but I hope I caught a few DU night-owls out flying around...


I love you all...


May 14, 2019

In thumping the drums for war with Iran, has no one told Trump that military recruiting levels are

perilously low?

What's he going to fight a war with? Clone troopers? Cardboard cutouts? Shadow puppets? Jared and Ivanka?

Profile Information

Gender: Male
Hometown: Puyallup, Washington
Member since: 2001
Number of posts: 66,316

About Aristus

I truly believe that we will all live in peace and brotherhood someday. And so that I don't lose my faith in humanity, I will live my life as if that day had already happened.
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