June is usually a big time for SCOTUS decisions, and here comes another: Today the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned lower court decisions in the consolidated cases of Ruan vs. United States and Kahn vs. United States. The two physicians … Continue reading →
The international body has ruled: Swimming’s world governing body, FINA, announced a ban Sunday on biological men competing in women’s events, unless they had “transitioned” before the age of 12. In other words, transgender athletes who have experienced the enduring … Continue reading →
[NOTE: [Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Part IV can be found here. Part V can be found here. Part VI can be found here.] The good news … Continue reading →
Since the Uvalde shooting, I’ve been reading statement after statement, as though it’s a proven fact, that school shooters and other mass murdering shooters are usually fatherless, disproportionately so. The people saying this don’t usually feel they have to prove … Continue reading →
This got some coverage yesterday: In an attempt to devise an ‘inclusive’ event, the ThunderCrit organisers created two new non-binary [cycling] races called ‘thunder’ and ‘lightning’. Its website said: ‘Thunder category is for cis men, non-binary people whose physical performance … Continue reading →
I was going to write the next installment of my eye story. But after disgorging this enormous post just now, I don’t have it in me at the moment and will postpone it to some future but not-too-distant date. I’d … Continue reading →
McCormick concedes and Dr. Oz will be the GOP nominee in the Senate race in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Oz’s Democratic opponent Fetterman has been the subject of a lot of rumors that he’s had more health problems than previously disclosed. Now … Continue reading →
A chilling mass murder has played out in Tulsa: Tulsa police said a gunman charged into the second floor of the Natalie Building at St. Francis Hospital at 4:52 p.m. Wednesday, opening fire and killing four victims. Police also said … Continue reading →
[Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Part IV can be found here. Part V can be found here.] At the end of Part V, I’d had my surgery … Continue reading →
During the Trump administration, he was often blocked by federal judges issuing national injunctions on things he was attempting to do. Now the shoe is on the other foot: A Louisiana federal judge blocked the Biden administration on Friday from … Continue reading →
This is tremendously encouraging: The drug, called AZD1236 and developed by the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, can reduce the “secondary damage” generated by the body’s response to spinal cord injury, they said in an article published Friday by the journal Clinical … Continue reading →
[Part I can be found here. Part II can be found here. Part III can be found here. Part IV can be found here.] I can’t remember much about the drive home from the surgery, except that I was tired … Continue reading →