Kind of a troubled past
You might say.
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More on the Giffords shooting: heroes, victims, and others
Giffords’ intern, 20-year-old Daniel Hernandez, rushed to give her aid right after the shooting and may have saved her life by elevating her head and keeping her from choking on her own blood. In the understated manner typical of most … Continue reading →
Eyewitness testimony to Giffords shooting
I’m listening to an interview on Fox with a Dr. Steven Rayle, an emergency room physician who was an eyewitness to the shooting. He reports that the shooter was only a few feet from Giffords when he suddenly began to … Continue reading →
Horrific news: Representative Giffords shot
This is truly terrible news: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a gunman at a public event in Tucson on Saturday. There are conflicting reports about whether she was killed. The Pima County, Ariz., sheriff’s office told … Continue reading →
Cancer clusters
This past Thursday I wrote a post that generated quite a bit of back and forth in the comments section, about the supposed vaccine/autism connection. An issue that’s somewhat related to that discussion is how to decide whether an observed … Continue reading →
Hello Parent 1, Hello Parent 2
Oh boy, speaking of depressing news, we now have this: The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says. “The words in the old form were ”˜mother’ … Continue reading →
To brighten up…
…your day:
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…the most depressing article I’ve read in a very long time.
Continue reading →HCR’s vulnerability
David Brooks speaks of the “striking” vulnerability of HCR to challenges, “some of them scarcely discussed before passage.” Scarcely discussed? I guess the supposedly-conservative Brooks didn’t have the time to check out blogs or periodicals on the right, because he … Continue reading →
The Constitution and that 3/5 compromise
When Republicans offered their controversial reading of the Constitution at the opening session of this Congress, they and the Democrats who participated decided (wisely or unwisely; you be the judge) to hold back from reading every single word, and instead … Continue reading →
The fall of the house of Pahlavi
The sad news of the suicide in Boston of Alireza Pahlavi, the youngest son of the late and last Shah of Iran, is the most recent chapter in the sorrowful saga of the family. Here they are in happier days. … Continue reading →
The vaccine/autism connection was a fraud
Not an error: a deliberate fraud. Let that sink in a minute. It’s not been an inconsequential fraud, either; I completely agree with the contention, voiced in the British medical journal BMJ, that Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s original study purporting to … Continue reading →