Did she or didn’t she?
I can answer the question, even if she can’t: she did. My title is a reference to one of the most famous ad campaigns in history:
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Spain: it was the nurse’s fault
It doesn’t look good for the Spanish nurse in Madrid who contracted ebola while caring for an infected priest who’d been brought back from Africa. And, in today’s current climate of passing the buck, the Spanish authorities are passing it … Continue reading →
What did they know…
…and when did they known it?: As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House … Continue reading →
I’m not surprised…
…that this is happening. I’m surprised that it’s happening in Nebraska: A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple … Continue reading →
Followup: yes, the fever criterion for ebola definitely needs revising downward
And that’s not the only thing that needs revising. When I first heard the story about the Spanish nurse who has ebola, and compared it with that of Thomas Duncan, one thing leapt out at me: both of them reported … Continue reading →
The Panetta interview with Bill O’Reilly
I watched most of the Panetta interview on the O’Reilly show last night. Panetta tried to pull his punches in the sense that he kept offering tepid excuses for Obama that didn’t sound as though even he was convinced of … Continue reading →
Thomas Eric Duncan has died of Ebola
I was hoping he’d live, for many reasons. But despite being cared for in Dallas rather than Liberia, Thomas Eric Duncan becomes not just the first person to be diagnosed in this country, but the first person to die of … Continue reading →
Does this make sense?
Now they want to kill the Spanish nurse’s dog as an Ebola precaution. I like dogs, but I’m not a PETA-esque fanatic. However, I’m with the nurse’s husband on this—why not quarantine the dog for a while?: In a letter … Continue reading →
Stunning disloyalty
Dana Milbank writes an article parsing the recent spate of books by former Obama advisors (Gates, H. Clinton, and now Panetta) critical of his policies, especially his foreign policies. But in the entire piece he treats their motives as merely … Continue reading →
Middle East: the world is watching…
…and doing next to nothing as ISIS prepares to slaughter many of the remaining inhabitants of Kobani, a mostly Kurdish town on the border of Syria and Turkey: …which is crammed with refugees””Kurdish, Turkmen, Christian, and Arab””from other parts of … Continue reading →
Spain’s Ebola patient zero…
…is a nurse’s assistant. Unlike the accusations that have been leveled at Thomas Duncan, no one can say she kept mum about the fact that she’d been near an Ebola patient recently. That’s because she was on the team that … Continue reading →
The world is full of wonders: behold, the mosquito
I mean it: mosquitoes are astonishing. Until recently, all I knew about mosquitoes could be summed up as: hate the little buggers. They bite, and can cause malaria. But while researching the answer to Ymarsakar’s question the other day about … Continue reading →