Haydennet.com, personal site of Joseph A. Hayden, J.D.

Yes, it’s a tax write-off, but TEN BILLION dollars for children’s vaccines to save untold millions of lives?  How many rich people even think of such benevolence?  By comparison the United States committed 100 MILLION to Haiti relief, even though I realize it might become far more as a result of the military efforts and that many of the expenses will benefit the American economy as companies from the United States will be providing many of the supplies.



John Edwards’ former assistant Andrew Young and his family who feigned Andrew’s fatherhood of Rielle Hunter’s baby should be highly compensated for their sacrifices with their book proceeds and otherwise!  I would think someone capable of such loyalty would be highly employable if he should ever have to worry about his marketability.

So much for having the highest IQ in the country!

Had a perilous commute into work today (usually, of course, I take the train).  I was trying to get to work two hours early for a special project, but didn’t make it until one hour later than expected because of traffic, but what made it so treacherous was that it was still very dark at that hour (which was not helped by the cloud cover), there was an intense rain storm and while I was defrosting the windows, the driver’s side windshield wiper completely stopped working right before entering highway.  I pulled over and the wiper portion basically came right off, but the arm had stopped moving anyway.  I had to sit in a precarious position to see the road and changing lanes was scary.  It was almost a blessing that traffic came to a standstill far sooner than usual because of the backup at the bridge, but then of course there were high winds and the problematic S-curve which is currently on the Bay Bridge during the reconstruction.  The garage attendant said all I had to do was pull up the windshield wiper from the passenger side and pop it in the driver’s side, but I don’t want to risk having no windshield at all when I drive home today!

Am I the only one who doesn’t giving a flying heap about the late night lineups?  These shows are all cookie-cutter anyway.

I mean economically speaking, I think SPORTS are more important than this, and I can’t believe we waste ANY time on sports “news” (which thankfully CNN does not).

I hope the kid/childhood photo fad as one’s primary picture on Facebooks ends damn soon; weirdos with no other public picture are trying to add me, and that’s just creepy and screams insecurity.  Like I don’t have enough time wasted by closeted people expecting me to spill my guts to them without having another excuse to avoid showing themselves accurately?  It’d be one thing if they had up-to-date pictures publicly posted as well, but I really don’t want to have to walk around with my phone ringing and texting from people who look like kids.  Someone’s going to think I’m a pedophile if they see me communicating with kid photos, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole thing was started by one!

Diaspora – Such as my Haitian friends in New York.

He was only 59 and he had been paralyzed for years, so I wasn’t too surprised to hear that his recent illness may have been related to his paralysis.  Why aren’t we using stem cells more!!  I’m sure there are plenty of people who would volunteer rather than die.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Pendergrass

I’m very disappointed that my daughter couldn’t get her permit today because her 18th birthday is coming up too soon.  I paid for a whole course that she excelled in online last summer and she’s had a couple of postponed appointments, but now after all of that effort, she is not able to drive until at least April and her getting a job will be that much more difficult.

More frustratingly, all the money I spent and time shee spent on her driving course WAS WASTED