Thanks to babying my foot yesterday, it held up reasonably well today to walk around Sail Boston.
Got Ships?
Flat-Footed
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.
Southern Men
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!
Putting the Heat on ICE
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/
Under Pressure
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.
ChatGLP
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.