You know, I used to be very much opposed to mood-altering prescription drugs - valium, thorazine, etc. - because I felt that they were over-prescribed to "solve" problems, when it seemed to me that they only masked the problems and never really solved anything. And yet today, it seems like if you aren't on meds, then there's something wrong with you. I've seen them help people cope with daily living, and I've seen them become just one more thing the person has a dependency for, so I'm not so sure what I think anymore. There are times when I wish things were more black and white, instead of so many shades of grey. You know, grey's my favorite color....
There are certain things about Nashville which would drive a Baptist minister to drink - in public. One of these things is the entity known as NES. Whenever NES isn't out butchering trees, apparently they're arbitrarily turning off power to entire city blocks. Granted, we had a storm the other night. Granted, there were a lot of people without power, and there was a transformer damaged. But notifying Vanderbilt 15 minutes after you've already done it that there will be "intermittent" power outages, then leaving the power off for an hour and a half, just doesn't seem Kosher to me. Blakemore is very busy street, as is 21st. I know that the traffic lights on Blakemore between Natchez and 21st were out, no police presence, just reliance that folks driving in Nashville would know to treat the intersections as 4-way stops. Since I swear two-thirds of the population doesn't understand the concept of a 4-way stop, this was a bad idea. Meanwhile, back at the ranc...
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