A Maryland doctor-legislator has been punished by the state medical board “for performing surgery while appearing virtually for legislative meetings,” The Hill reported on Friday, October 29, 2021 (read story here). Dr. Terri Hill (photo, left), a cosmetic surgeon who’s been a Demo[...]
Archive for October, 2021
October 30th, 2021 - 12:58 am § in Schools & Colleges
Would you want to live in this dorm?
Like nearly all large gifts bestowed by filthy-rich philanthropists, Charlie Munger’s presents to universities come with strings attached. Munger (bio here), Warren Buffett’s buddy, gives money to campuses for student housing but insists on designing the buildings himself. Slavishly foll[...]
October 29th, 2021 - 8:30 pm § in Law and Courts
Rogue sheriff has cost taxpayers over $100 million
Legal settlements from Joe Arpaio’s reign of rogueness are still flying out the door. The latest is a $3.1 million payment to a Phoenix restaurant owner for raiding his business. Previous settlements have been for things like “jail deaths, failed investigations of … political enemi[...]
October 29th, 2021 - 7:25 pm § in Misc.
The Un-News: What didn’t happen the week of 10/29/21
Dr. Anthony Fauci didn’t oversee gruesome monkey experiments. The government didn’t pay higher allowances to newly-arrived refugees than to Social Security retirees. Japan didn’t stop vaccinating its population, distribute ivermectin instead, or eradicate Covid-19. More than a doze[...]
October 29th, 2021 - 2:42 pm § in Misc.
Facebook’s renaming fiasco
When FACEBOOK decided to call itself META, it obviously had in mind “metaverse,” a computing term. But … In Hebrew, “meta” means “dead.” Oops. Story here. Editor’s note: They could fix this by adding one letter: “Metav” instead of R[...]
October 29th, 2021 - 2:21 pm § in Misc.
Slavery in ICE detention facilities
Until two days ago, immigrants in a Washington state ICE detention facility were forced to work for $1 by the private contractor who runs the prison-like facility. These immigrants haven’t been charged or convicted of crimes, but they’re confined while the government determines their imm[...]
October 28th, 2021 - 11:25 pm § in Politics
A Trump appointee’s insider stock trades
In February 2020, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) learned before the public did that Covid-19 was about to devastate the U.S. economy, and promptly sold $1.6 million of stock to buyers who didn’t know what he knew. Moments later Burr phoned his brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, a business consultant Trum[...]
October 28th, 2021 - 11:05 pm § in Law and Courts
Oklahoma botches 3rd consecutive execution
States using lethal injection to execute killers struggle to get execution drugs because pharmaceutical companies won’t provide them. So prison officials get creative. They go to compounding pharmacies that create the drugs for them. It doesn’t always work as it should. In fact it often [...]
Video: “Does your dog bite?”
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A letter to readers about school board controversies
A letter from the National School Boards Association to President Biden (read it here) requesting “federal law enforcement and other assistance” to protect children, educators, and school board members from “threats of violence and acts of intimidation” after a series of dist[...]