Don Bolduc, the GOP Senate nominee in New Hampshire, last week told a crowd at a campaign event “that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and use litter boxes in schools,” CNN reported on Saturday, October 29, 2022 (see story here). “Guess what? We have fu[...]
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Are Republicans cannibals?
Look, this isn’t my idea, and I didn’t choose that word, nor is this new. Over 15 years ago, in 2007 to be exact, Huffington Post published an essay titled, “Cannibals on the Right: Republicans Eating Their Own.” Sample quote: “Then the Republican ‘you eat me, tha[...]
July 11th, 2022 - 4:45 pm § in Law and Courts
Could abortion trigger a constitutional crisis or worse?
In 1973, the Supreme Court created a right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. On its face, all the court’s 2022 Dobbs decision does is rescind that right. What the court giveth, it taketh away. Which leaves abortion to federal and state legislation. If you follow this string all the way back to the h[...]
How old are you? How much would you pay to find out?
The calendar lies. You may be younger or older than you think. That’s because chronological and biological age are different. But measuring the latter is tricky. There are several ways to do it, some better than others. Scientists consider “epigenetics” the “gold standardR[...]
June 5th, 2022 - 1:23 am § in Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Gasherbrum IV
Cold, remote, Gasherbrum IV (center) is located in the greatest concentration of high peaks in the world — Pakistan’s Karakoram range — and is part of a 6-peak massif that includes two of the world’s 14 eight-thousand-meter peaks. It’s the world’s 17th highest mou[...]
April 10th, 2022 - 1:55 pm § in Health
Covid-19 is still here, and not to be trifled with
Jarrett Banwart (photo), 59, of Seattle, got Covid-19 in March 2020 before vaccines were available. He survived, but two years later, still suffers from fatigue and other “long Covid” symptoms that keep him from going for bicycle rides or working regularly. He wonders if his Covid-19 ord[...]
GOP candidate threatens doctors who refuse to prescribe ivermectin
A GOP candidate for Wisconsin attorney general says she’ll prosecute doctors for murder if they refuse to prescribe ivermectin to dying Covid-19 patients (read story here). Karen Mueller (photo, left), who runs a solo practice in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, also has brought lawsuits against mas[...]
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[...]
He called mandates “vengeful” before dying
Missing Whatcom County state senator Doug Erickson has died of Covid-19 Story here Editor’s Comments: Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Trump’s FDA commissioner, predicted in July nearly every unvaccinated American would get Delta, before anyone had heard of Omicron. Read that story here. Once infec[...]
Forcing kids to be born into poverty
The worst states for children are those with the most restrictive abortion laws, CNN says (story here). Most of the 21 states with anti-abortion laws waiting for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade “fall into the bottom half of state rankings on a wide array of measures tracking the well[...]