I was out of bed at 7:00 this morning. Early for me on a Sunday.
Checking the news, I saw that Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky had died. No surprise there.
Wait. No. That’s not McConnell. What the ding-dong heck? Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina is dead?? Don’t tell Mitch!
ICE performs another summary street execution without cause.
This Frontline documentary can’t be embedded, but it’s available at the link.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/caught-in-the-crackdown/
I’ve seen Pressure again, a movie that is certain to be nominated for Best Picture. A second viewing makes it clear that, underneath all of the D-Day drama in Pressure, there is a love letter to Kay Summersby.
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.)
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.
Paul Krugman realizes there’s yet some hope for America.
Every so often I recall that, during my school years, I had restaurant jobs where I was a cook. Then I act on that recollection.
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.
