Excerpted from E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes, by James Patterson and Matt Everson (get it here), at p. 246: “We get a lot of calls to deal with emergency situations in the rural parts of Oklahoma, where a lot of people live off the grid, without TV or ru[...]
Archive for March, 2022
March 18th, 2022 - 8:47 pm § in Politics
Meet California’s next (?) secretary of state
Probably not. But in the category of “this is a free country, and anyone can run for anything,” this one’s a doozy. Meet the candidate in the video below. Go here for a short video in which she explains why and how she decided to run. Go here to find out what elections would be [&h[...]
Trucker convoy shows its real colors
They call themselves the “People’s Convoy,” but they don’t represent us. They’re a fringe group of far-right, pro-Trump racists who’ve hijacked the American flag and term “People” for a barely-disguised white supremacy movement. On Friday, March 18, 20[...]
The GOP’s extremism problem
America’s democracy has always been rowdy, its politics can get ugly, and both parties have fringe elements. Our system has survived that, and often thrived despite it, so it’s not the outliers, per se, that threaten the system. It’s when an entire party goes bonkers. That’s [...]
March 18th, 2022 - 2:17 pm § in Politics
Ex-cop pleads guilty to Capitol riot charges
Jacob Fracker, an ex-cop and National Guardsman from Virginia, pleaded guilty to a felony on Friday, March 18, 2022, NBC News reported here. Fracker admitted he and a co-worker, Thomas Robertson, “stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to block the certification of Joe Biden’s presi[...]
March 17th, 2022 - 11:00 pm § in Misc.
Driver, 13, kills himself and 8 others
A 13-year-old boy was driving a pickup truck at 75mph when a tire blew, the pickup veered into an oncoming lane, and slammed into a van (pictured). The tire was a spare that failed. The boy, his father in the passenger seat, and 7 of the 9 people in the van — a college golf […][...]
March 17th, 2022 - 10:09 pm § in Science
Are we relatives?
Possibly, but not necessarily, and we’ll probably never know, because most family genealogies go back only a couple of centuries. According to the Bible, we all descended from Adam and Eve, in which case we’re all related to each other. Lending some support to this thesis is the fact tha[...]
March 17th, 2022 - 5:10 pm § in Politics
GOP voter “audit” in New Mexico investigated for intimidation
A House committee is investigating a GOP “audit” of the 2020 election in a New Mexico county after receiving reports a private company is using volunteers knocking on voters’ doors to create “a list of suspects for criminal prosecution,” The Hill reported on Thursday, M[...]
March 17th, 2022 - 4:16 pm § in Health
New BA.2 variant “serious threat” to seniors boosted over 5 months ago
With the BA.2 Omicron subvariant “picking up steam in the United States,” about 28 million seniors risk severe illness because they’re unvaccinated, partially vaccinated, or it’s over 5 months since they got a booster shot, CNN reported on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 (read stor[...]
March 17th, 2022 - 3:31 am § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
What’s Putin fighting for in Ukraine?
“When Vladimir Putin shattered the peace in Europe by unleashing war on a democracy of 44 million people, his justification was that modern, Western-leaning Ukraine was a constant threat and Russia could not feel ‘safe, develop and exist,'” BBC News says (here). That’s consis[...]