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Losing weight and maintaining some level of physical fitness is ideally done by eating less and moving more. Simple and free, but not easy.

The other methods are varying degrees of complicated and expensive, from a gym membership, to gastric bypass surgery and, most recently, GLP-1 drugs. Medicare is about to provide funding for some GLP-1 treatments.

Here is Massachusetts, Masshealth is dropping coverage of GLP-1 medications. (Masshealth is Medicaid, which isn’t the Health Connector, aka Romneycare, the predecessor to Obamacare.)

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/06/27/masshealth-will-stop-covering-weight-loss-drugs-next-week/

The Internet has been chatty about the possibility that Trump is the beneficiary of an FDA decision to allow “compassionate use” of the weight loss drug retatrutide.

https://people.com/why-the-internet-thinks-trump-is-on-experimental-weight-loss-drug-12005518

Trump, who is finally the billionaire he always, and falsely, claimed to be, is obviously obese. Whatever else is wrong with him, all of his medical care will be free for him and taxpayer funded.

Lazy Bake Oven

Every so often I recall that, during my school years, I had restaurant jobs where I was a cook.

Peeling the white potatoes to mash them is the hardest part of making shepherd’s pie. I pre-cook a pound of ground turkey in an iron skillet. It goes in a casserole dish with creamed corn and chopped onion. The mashed potato with melted butter on it goes over that, then into the oven for a while.

This pizza crust was handmade with a powder mix that includes yeast. I like Trader Joe’s pizza sauce. Onion goes on that, then the cheese, and topped with green pepper after coming out of the oven.

Oliver Blocked Me!

Not John Oliver, Oliver Kornetzke. I’ve been blocked from his Substack page:

https://substack.com/@oliverkornetzke

I had previously posted a comment on his page that is now deleted. The text of my comment is here:

Waiting for Oliver or Someone Like Him

Nobody liked or disliked that comment, or commented on it. Then Oliver posted an alleged autobiographical essay that provided no actual background information, and amounted to a pile of AI gibberish.

https://oliverkornetzke.substack.com/p/my-autobiography

This time, my comment was terse and intended to elicit some sort of a response. I said, “Obviously not written by an actual person.” Well, that woke somebody — or something — up, resulting not in a pointed rebuttal, but in my being banned.

As far as I can tell, the person, or persons, who are Oliver Kornetzke aren’t trying to cash in, other than perhaps accepting paid subscriptions on Substack. That much is good, but there’s a lot of left-wing flavored candy being tossed to the most sweet-toothed of gullible Trump haters. What distinguishes me from them is that I’m not so gullible.

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