[Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here.] “It’s very possible we won’t be able to remove your cataract,” the renowned cataract surgeon at Mass Eye and Ear repeated, and went on for many minutes in … Continue reading →
Yesterday I happened to be in the neighborhood of the Reagan Library, and so I visited it. I’m not a fan of presidential libraries, although I’ve been to three now. I find them a bit boring, sorry to say. The … Continue reading →
Is it possible that it’s dead in the water for now? Dare we hope? Perhaps: The US is moving toward ending its efforts to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, as Tehran continues to make demands without showing … Continue reading →
Here’s a fascinating article about the history of our nuclear weapons policy. It’s way outside of my field of expertise, but I think it offers much food for thought. An excerpt: [I]n the 1960s and ’70s, U.S. planners understood that … Continue reading →
What’s the Streisand Effect?: The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American … Continue reading →
[Part I, which dealt with my iridotomies about fifteen or so years ago, can be found here.] When I left off my story in Part I, about fifteen or so years ago, I’d recently had two iridotomies. The one in … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →About a month ago, commenter “BrianB” had this to say. I think it represents one not uncommon point of view on the right: On the personal and emotional level I sympathize with Ukraine. But personal emotions are how our “leaders” … Continue reading →
This video says that about one in twenty people are tone deaf. That surprises me; I thought tone deafness was far less common:
Continue reading →Commenter Bauxite wrote: Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine is a disaster… There were no good outcomes for the Ukraine once Putin invaded. Once the invasion happened, all of the options that included a Ukrainian victory involved considerable death, destruction, and … Continue reading →