It now appears that an award-winning VA hospital in Texas was cooking the books for years—falsifying wait times in order to keep winning those awards and bonuses. Investigations went nowhere: Emails and VA memos obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast … Continue reading →
…but Dorothy Custer seems to sail right through it: I missed it when she became a sensation on the Leno show in 2011. I just came across the above video recently, and I thought I’d check to see how she’s … Continue reading →
I haven’t yet written a big post on the mess at the VA hospital system, and this won’t be that post. But the news on the VA is one of those outrages that even the left can’t quite coverup, it … Continue reading →
People often claim they’re lactose intolerant. But few people know for sure because few people have been tested for it. I am one of those lucky, lucky few. For some reason (sadism?), a doctor subjected me to the test many … Continue reading →
Celiac disease is real. But short of that, the burgeoning industry that caters to those who claim gluten sensitivity is probably based on a fantasy. That sort of thing is always tricky, though. If people believe that gluten makes them … Continue reading →
Lesley Stahl interviews her mother. How old do you think her mother is?: She’s 95. Astounding. What a lovely woman! My mother, born a few years earlier than Ruthy Stahl, also called the refrigerator the icebox. And I, quite a … Continue reading →
He’s 111. He may be the world’s oldest man, but there are 66 women who are older than he is. He lives in New York but was born in Poland. He seems to have all his marbles, but he’s frail:
Continue reading →…let me just say that this article is as bad or worse than the science it purports to debunk. I could write either a book on this topic or a short post. Since it’s Saturday, you get the short post. … Continue reading →
…reminds me of the war on little schoolkids making gun gestures with their hands. Instead of worrying about the thing itself, people are worrying about a simulacrum of the thing. Why would people who are against smoking because of its … Continue reading →
Echoes of “Soylent Green” and “A Modest Proposal“: The British Columbia Health Ministry has admitted that the remains of babies destroyed by abortion in B.C. facilities are ending up in a waste-to-power facility in the United States, providing electricity for … Continue reading →
I’d like to say at the outset that I like fruits and vegetables. Even if they weren’t supposed to be good for you I would eat them. I might even eat them if I heard they were a little bit … Continue reading →
Nothing much happens to me when I get hungry except that I get hungry. But some people are different: they get angry and pick fights. Indeed. I know that quite well because I’ve been closely and even at times intimately … Continue reading →