Under Trump, the FDA seems to be as incompetent as the CDC.
Federal health officials are continuing to test food items for cyclospora after discovering a sample of iceberg lettuce was a false positive match for the parasite that has caused thousands of people nationwide to fall sick.
I may have next to no interest in professional team sports, but as a former marathon runner of very average ability*, I appreciate this accomplishment.
* There’s a formula that says to take your half-marathon (13.1 miles) time, double it, and add ten minutes for a marathon. It never worked for me.
Thanks to training with a running club, at 5’10” and weighing 162 lbs. (BMI 23.2), I was averaging 7 minutes/mile. That led to my personal best half-marathon time of 93 minutes. Which implied that I should have been able to complete a full 26.2 miles in 3h:16m. Uh, no. I was never able to manage that.
On Blu-ray I’m watching one of the TCM recorded movies I lost when Verizon yanked my DVR last year — W.C. Fields in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, from 1941. It’s as close to being a cartoon as a live action movie can be. It even opens with cartoon credits.
Thanks to babying my foot yesterday, it held up reasonably well today to walk around Sail Boston.
Argh. My stupid foot is failing me again, but it’s my brain that’s stupid. Following my usual pattern, as my jogging (too slow to call it running) was improving, I pushed my ankle, and my luck, too far. So, I’m back in the boot I first wore 20(!) years ago.
