[NOTE: I’d like to get the following information to Megyn Kelly, so she can do some further investigating on this point. Just emailing her seems futile, because it will get lost in the shuffle. Any ideas?] Last night I watched … Continue reading →
…which I was—this article, which chastises us for our Halloween indulgences, purports to give better candy alternatives to substitute for worse ones. But why bother? I figure that, once you’re into Halloween candy, you may as well have the type … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Yes folks, time passes swiftly and once again it is (blare of trumpets) National Candy Corn Day! Which means it’s time for a repeat of this post, originally published in 2008.] No doubt all of my readers, being unusually … Continue reading →
This piece by Lanny Davis purports to give helpful advice to Republicans just in case they win the Senate (he doesn’t think they will, by the way—but you know, just in case). It’s manipulative and duplicitous, but unconsciously funny as … Continue reading →
Here’s an article about a study that says drinking more milk may be bad for you. It may not reduce the risk of bone fracture, and it may even increase the risk of death: We indeed found higher oxidative stress … Continue reading →
New Jersey’s loss seems to be Maine’s gain: Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital despite exhibiting no Ebola symptoms after arriving from West Africa, won’t follow the quarantine imposed by Maine officials, her attorney … Continue reading →
This administration has such class: The other day I [journalist Jeffrey Goldberg] was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. “The thing about … Continue reading →
It breaks down this way— The Obama administration and liberals: don’t panic. Trust us, less is more. No travel restrictions, no forced quarantine, the CDC knows best. We are the educated scientists and smart people, you are the dummy hysterics … Continue reading →
Election Days make me nervous. Back in the twentieth century (doesn’t that sound archaic?), that wasn’t the case. I always voted, and I always preferred one candidate to another, but it didn’t affect me very deeply. It seemed that even … Continue reading →
…they’ll be looking forward to it, not dreading it. This is the sort of thing I’ve been suggesting: What’s needed is a quarantine so luxurious that health care workers will look forward to their 21 day quarantine, or at least … Continue reading →
…from “Idiocracy”: That name bit reminds me ever-so-slightly of this:
Continue reading →Found—some old satellite photos with grainy images: Scientists have uncovered a cache of satellite images of Earth from the 1960s that had been forgotten in storage for nearly 50 years and that push back the first satellite images of our … Continue reading →