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not melodrama…

I spent several years as a kid with an illness that now doesn’t exist, chronic tonsillitis that kept me from eating. It was in the 1940s before antibiotics, and there was a terror about tonsillectomy. It predisposed kids to polio. So I spent a couple of winters in bed sick, being fed on cokes and […]

a massive, cynical effort…

Key Opinion Leader Services Companies: the Creation of Useful Idiots and Usefully Idiotic Organization Healthcare Renewal by Roy Poses January 07, 2011 In researching the conflicts of interest of the University of California "36," I stumbled upon a fascinating corner of the pharmaceutical/ biotechnology/ medical device marketing universe, the companies that find and manage key […]

ask an expert…

Staying up late awaiting the end of the world [Snow in Georgia], I thought a lot about the Arizona shooting and decided to weigh in this morning. I tried to keep my mouth shut, but psychotic communication has long been an interest of mine from my early days as a hospital Psychiatrist, so I jumped […]

felt sad…

I’m going to make a political point now REDSTATE by Erick Erickson January 10, 2010 … those of us on the right, we have an obligation to be responsible on something else. There have been a lot of false statements over the last twenty-four hours about Mr. Obama calling for a “Moment of Silence” instead […]

ignoring it just doesn’t work…

Jared Loughner became disruptive last summer, and by October he was dismissed from college. He bought his gun at the end of November. On the Internet, he recently posted: In conclusion, reading the second United States constitution, I can’t trust the current government because of the ratifications: the government is implying mind control and brainwash […]

the “slot”…

Well, sometimes things work out oddly. The snow began to fall up here around midnight and we have a couple of inches. It’s on the ground, but the trees aren’t covered which bodes well for our electricity. We’re in a "slot" in the storm which roughly follows the lower Appalachians and were spared from the […]

for a long time…

Obama Created More Jobs In One Year Than Bush Created In Eight Think Progress by Alex Seitz-Wald January 6, 2011 Thisweek , the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 private sector jobs, knocking the unemployment rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to […]

“implying mind control”…

"The majority of citizens in the united states of America have never read the united states of America’s constitution. You don’t have to accept the federalist laws," the video’s titles say. "In conclusion, reading the second United States constitution, I can’t trust the current government because of the ratifications: the government is implying mind control […]

a white christmas wasn’t enough?…

inevitable…

Hospital: Rep. Giffords expected to recover from Tucson shooting that killed six including a child and federal judge Washington Post By Shailagh Murray, David Fahrenthold January 8, 2011 Tucson – The surgeon who operated on Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said he was "optimistic" she would recover from being shot in the head by a […]