The opioid abuse (and overdose) epidemic isn’t fueled by chronic pain patients. Most of the abuse problem involves the use of illicit drugs by addicts, and then to a lesser extent the selling of drugs left over from short-term prescriptions … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post. Merry Night-Before-Christmas and Merry Christmas!] …a creature was stirring. Last night was Christmas Eve. I was expecting a visit from my son, who was flying in as a rare treat. I … Continue reading →
Years ago I thought it sounded like a nifty idea. But in recent years I’ve decided no, not so much. First of all, a sibling of mine did it already so I pretty much know the general picture—which I already … Continue reading →
I saw a link to this book at Instapundit. It’s called Real Life Organizing: Clean and Clutter-Free in 15 Minutes a Day. As soon as I saw that, I felt the old seductive pull: maybe I should buy that, I … Continue reading →
Before I had my political change, I wasn’t particularly aware of which periodicals and newspapers were on the right. I knew of a couple—the WSJ and the Manchester Union Leader, for example. I knew who William F. Buckley was from … Continue reading →
John Hawkins has a piece at PJ Media entitled “The 5 Worst Things About Getting Older.” It caught my eye for obvious reasons, but as with many such articles I started chuckling right at the start on learning that Hawkins … Continue reading →
Here’s an Atlantic article that discusses the rise and current ubiquity of something I’ve hated for a long time—the loud restaurant. So loud you really can’t have conversation successfully—and to me conversation is a big part of the enjoyment of … Continue reading →
Blogging used to be the hot new thing. That was back in the dark ages of the Bush administration. I’m not sure when I first discovered blogs, but it was probably around 2002, about two years after I had transitioned … Continue reading →
Today I’ve been doing my laundry, a task I hate. I love having clean laundry, but for some reason—although it’s not really that onerous at all, as tasks go—I hate doing it. I can’t stand ironing, either, and fortunately for … Continue reading →
[BUMPED UP: I’m bumping this post up to the top for now, so please scroll down to see the newer posts. After the polls close in the east and returns begin, I’ll be starting a new Election 2018 thread.] It’s … Continue reading →
Not exactly, but sort of: …[T]he American electorate has separated into two increasingly homogenous political tribes. As Lilliana Mason points out in Uncivil Agreement, “partisanship can now be thought of as a mega-identity.” The Republican mega-identity is religious, middle-class, rural, … Continue reading →
I’ve written before about the fact that I hate coffee. So this National Geographic article, which reports that scientists have said that whether we like coffee or have trouble with it is at least partly genetic, is of interest. Of … Continue reading →