I was going to compose a long, carefully thought-out essay on the recent wave of mass shootings. Screw it, why bother? I’ll just borrow a couple of videos from reputable news outlets.
Love the dress, Nora!
I’ll make a prediction. The Second Amendment will be repealed. Not in my lifetime, certainly, but eventually. The extreme interpretation by the Supreme Court, ironically from its “originalist” members, effectively removed “A well regulated Militia” from the amendment, making its repeal inevitable.
The PBS News Hour wraps up its series on the crisis in rural healthcare. The problem is two-fold, with both of them resulting from a lack of funding.
First, many hospitals have closed and, second, with a nationwide shortage of primary care physicians, very few are working at the remaining rural facilities. You will note the report is mostly about Doctors of Osteopathy stepping in where there aren’t enough Medical Doctors.
Chiropractic and Acupuncture have no scientific basis. People who use those services are, in my opinion, wasting their money and/or the money of insurance carriers that have been pressured into covering the treatments.
The holistic approach of Osteopathy includes chiropractic treatment. Which, in my view, has all the validity of astrology compared to astronomy. The “treating the person not the disease” concept is, in my opinion, junk science. Focusing on the importance of diet, exercise, and sleep is my idea of holistic medicine.
Making a person feel they’re being heard works when their problem is emotional, not medical. Without getting into any detail, I saw this for myself with my late father when taking him to an appointment with a DO at a pain clinic.
Despite my unshakable doubts about Osteopathic medicine, DO’s deserve credit and support for providing services in regions where there aren’t enough MD’s. I also think the role of nurse practitioners — RN’s who become NP’s — as primary care providers should be encouraged.
Until watching last night’s 60 Minutes, I had never heard of Ray Epps. Even if I did hear his name, it didn’t register with me until now because he’s a MAGA mad hatter. Or at least he was. It’s no surprise that Trumpers are turning on each other. Of course they are.
While watching the Epps interview on my TiVo this morning, Fox News announced it was parting ways immediately with Tucker Carlson. Is there a connection? Epps said that Carlson is “obsessed with me. He’s going to any means possible to destroy my life.”
Could this be why, coming so soon after last week’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion, Carlson is out at Fox? If the story were about anyone else, this is the question Tucker would be asking on his (now-cancelled) show.
Update: CNN has announced that Don Lemon is leaving. Was there a trade between the networks? Are the two cable TV personalities switching teams? What’s the process for turning reckless speculation into conspiracy theories?
The future of investing in the summer of ’22. The inside cover of The New Yorker, July 4, 2022.
At least he was right about having a big impact globally. The next two pages of the July 4 issue.
Last summer I glanced at that magazine ad for half a second and, seeing the word “crypto,” ignored it. This was what the kid said at that time. Four months later he was out of business.
July 6 (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried, head of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, said he and his company still have a “few billion” on hand to shore up struggling firms that could further destabilize the digital asset industry, but that the worst of the liquidity crunch has likely passed.
