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May 27, 2005 I lost my father-in-law to Alzheimer’s several years ago, and my neighbor lost his wife from that tragic disease just a few weeks ago. During my family’s crisis, I attained a layman’s knowledge of the disease and later volunteered at a local Alzheimer’s fundraiser where I met others who had struggled with that disease’s effects. Both my family and my neighbor’s struggled with the decision whether to place their loved one in hospice care, and both declined that option. In most cases, the Alzheimer’s patient will be more comfortable remaining in familiar surroundings, even if they seem unfamiliar with those surroundings. It is with that knowledge and experience that I write today to implore the UK "family" to show the same respect and consideration for one of our own, a beloved UK contributor who shows all the symptoms of that incurable disease. Ken Hughes has been a long and prolific poster to this site with well over 200 articles appearing. I’ve enjoyed many of them and know many others have as well. Sadly, his latest article attacking me exhibits all the symptoms of a depraved mind spiraling into dementia. Hopefully we can all work together to make his debilitating decline as comfortable as possible. "Wait," you say, "the words in his article seemed lucid, why do you think he’s going insane?" I would first offer his obvious inability to comprehend the written word as evidence. He states, in reference to my post criticizing Mr. Olson, "He’s not only taken me on but some of my friends as well. Brooks Mick, Mac McCrae, and Nicolas Olsen to mention a few." My article in no way "takes him on", nor Dr. Mick or Mr. McCrae. It takes on only Mr. Olson and, in fact, specifically compliments he and the others. (Dr. Mick confirmed to be that he felt complimented by my words) Admittedly, I tried for humor in Ken’s case by purposely omitting commas because he is obviously touchy about the subject, but my words were not mean spirited and, being grouped with the compliments for Dr. Mick and Mr. McCrae, I expected him to recognize that. Also, his list of names was complete, there was not a "few" others to "mention." He embellishes to make me look bad. This is definite psychosis, folks. I think he mistakes me for some childhood enemy in his dementia dreams. It’s very common among Alzheimer’s patients. Why do I think it goes back to his childhood? Because of his next bizarre accusation – that I "said I was smarter than him." This is the same accusation against me he’s made a couple of times before on this site. Each time, I’ve denied those words and asked him to produce any evidence (I’ve never stated anything remotely like that). He always ignores my demand and then just makes the same accusation again as he did today. He’s losing his mind, folks. He can’t remember from one article to the next what’s been written and keeps babbling the same craziness over and over. Yet, I don’t think he’s imagining this, I really do think someone constantly told him he wasn’t smart as a small child and it’s now appearing in his confusion condition. I hope he has someone close, incontinence is almost certainly occurring as well. He sputters that I seek a "pulpit" from which to "preach". Anyone who still has their mental faculties can review my posts on this site to see that I certainly do less preaching that dozens of others (including the target of my article, Mr. Olson). In fact, most of my articles are exactly opposite; I’m attacking someone who preached with lies or without facts – such as Mr. Olson. Then, he accuses me of offering nothing to this site except criticism of other writers – inferring that I’m stupid therefore. But who, except an Alzheimer’s addled invalid would make such a statement when I just posted an article the day before (one of my better ones I thought) that was critical of no one. It was exactly the kind of article he claims I don't post. I’ve always assumed Ken could see, is he going blind as well as insane? (This could be advanced diabetes!) But here is the craziest part of all – he actually does make a valid criticism of me. My article did have too many misspellings and grammar mistakes. As with EVERY OTHER TIME I’ve been accurately criticized, I now admit my mistake and ask everyone to accept my apology. However, only someone truly demented would have the nerve to criticize my writing as he did when their writing is this bad: "Incidentally Ron in your last article I found eight misspelled words, two miss used words, several miss used commas, and several ill constructed sentences, what the hell who’s counting." In that one sentence, he has two misspellings (miss used), three omitted commas, and one omitted hyphen (ill-constructed). He also uses a comma after "sentences" instead of properly ending the sentence there (or, at least, a semicolon), and, in what should then be a new sentence, he omits the comma after "hell" and ends the sentence with a period instead of a question mark. He damn near has as many errors in that one sentence as I had in my entire 1500 word article. The rest of his article, as always, is not much better. (But, it is better that he used to write – although he’ll never admit to trying harder) Fortunately, Ken states that he will never read another of my articles so these words won’t offend him – doctors are very adamant that the Alzheimer’s patient should not be distressed in any way. Unfortunately, because he obviously is suffering tremendously from that horrid disease, he’ll probably forget his promise. So, don’t be surprised if he comes out attacking me again. But it’s OK because we (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) now know the real problem and can just humor him. On the other hand, I still think Mr. Olson is just an idiot, not diseased. Admittedly, his article on abortion today did not rage in Gestapo-speak as did the other, but it still reflects a junior high school intellect in its superficial grasp of the issue and definitely parrots the shrill, but vague, rants of the hypnotic liberal media to which he seems conjoined. I would criticize it in detail, but I agree in essence (but for completely different reasons) with his position. His position is the pro-choice version of Eric Rudolph. ------------ About the author: Ron Lewis is a software salesman extraordinaire, albeit habitually unemployed, with no significant accomplishments at age 47 other than two wonderfully talented children who take after their mother. All his friends note his keen insight, bad eyesight, doggedly jaded disposition, and rugged bad looks. A third person seems to recall that he talks too much. Email: grnacres@direcway.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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