“California Bans State Travel To Florida And 4 Other States” (from state-sponsored NPR, June 29): California added five more states, including Florida, to the list of places where state… | Continue reading
A few images from Manhattan (June 12-13) as we say goodbye to Pride Month. Nordstrom, CVS, Foot Locker, and Pain Quotidien want to remind you of their commitment to LGBTQIA+: The windows at Macy… | Continue reading
This is a report on a June 23 visit to the TWA Hotel, a conversion of the former TWA Flight Center terminal, designed by Eero Saarinen and used from 1962 through 2001. Essentially two big new apart… | Continue reading
Recent text message from a friend: [wife] is pissed at government for extending unemployment. Our nanny won’t work until September because she is being paid to not work. Many of the Americans colle… | Continue reading
“Why Young Adults Are Among the Biggest Barriers to Mass Immunity” (New York Times, today) shows that, despite scientific leadership in the White House, America is not safe from science… | Continue reading
Keeping a child from attending public school is a crime. Parents can be arrested and imprisoned for obstructing a child’s access. See, for example, “The Story Behind Kamala Harris’… | Continue reading
“Comparison Test: 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E vs. 2020 Tesla Model Y” (Car and Driver) has Ford crushing Tesla in every area except straight-line acceleration (useful in a country of 330+ … | Continue reading
When the founders of Terrafugia, 15 years ago, showed me their pitch arguing that a flying car was more efficient for some class of trips than a Honda Accord or a traditional piston-powered airplan… | Continue reading
A comment on Is inflation already at 15-30 percent if we hold delivery time constant?: GPU scarcity is entirely due to the growth of digital currency mining and the corresponding increase in demand… | Continue reading
We spent $trillions purportedly fighting COVID-19. We said that testing was critical to this fight. There is empty retail space all over the U.S. (thanks partly to closures ordered by governors!). … | Continue reading
Happy Pride Month again! Don’t forget that Suppose that we hear about a financially secure 90-year-old white American having sex with a 31-year-old “Brown” immigrant? That’s… | Continue reading
Both medical and recreational marijuana stores were open throughout California’s coronapanic shutdown. “Amid coronavirus pandemic, California gov classifies cannabis industry as ‘essent… | Continue reading
A form from a university vendor portal, in which one is asked to enter one’s “Diversity Classification”. Here are the federally recognized victimhood categories for a business (in… | Continue reading
From the weekend, our Juneteenth ice cream cake: Togetherness and love for the chocolate and vanilla. Rainbow sprinkles to celebrate all of the varieties of love among humans (including poly!) that… | Continue reading
Our anonymous hero behind Medical School 2020 is working in a hospital now. Part of his residency training has included shifts in the intensive care unit. There he has gained some insight into why … | Continue reading
From the Biden administration: In other words… “4 weeks to flatten the curve” (“reduce the spread”). How is this supposed to work? Can’t anyone come in from Cana… | Continue reading
Part of an email from the local public school here in Maskachusetts…. To assist you in planning, our bus protocol for the fall includes: All students/drivers will wear masks on the busWindows… | Continue reading
Hallmark says that today is Father’s Day. The Harvard Gazette takes a different view with “Why living in a two-parent home isn’t a cure-all for Black students” (June 3, 2021): New… | Continue reading
The CDC, early morning on January 20, 2021 (i.e., the last few hours of the Trump Dictatorship; via archive.org): From an epidemiologist’s point of view, the best “reference group”… | Continue reading
“What Does It Mean to Be Crowned ‘Miss Juneteenth’?” (New York Times, June 14): For contestants, it’s a pageant, yes, but also a place to celebrate Black sisterhood and promote a deeper… | Continue reading
Same rotation, but the second week of Internal Medicine brings a new attending and new residents. I get in at 6:15 am to pre-round on my two patients from the weekend (one was discharged on Sunday)… | Continue reading
Juneteenth (June 19) is the latest day off for government workers, a great mid-summer demonstration of why it is stupid to work in the private sector (an Irish small business owner friend: “G… | Continue reading
Internal Medicine clerkship starts at 7:00 am. My classmates and I meet the clerkship coordinator at the hospital coffee shop to receive schedules and team assignments. Gigolo Giorgio is frustrated… | Continue reading
Reproductive, Endocrinology, and Infertility (REI) elective begins at 8:00 am at the newly-constructed clinic, a 30-minute commute. I work with a 33-year-old first-year attending straight out of he… | Continue reading
“How UK PM Johnson decided to delay COVID reopening” (Reuters): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday delayed by a month his plans to lift the last COVID-19 restrictions in Eng… | Continue reading
Outpatient gynecology week begins at a clinic with two nurse practitioners. Two-thirds of appointments are routine obstetric visits; one-third are gynecology visits (annuals and acute problems). Si… | Continue reading
Some photos from a June 12-13, 2021 visit… Summary: Based on observed behavior and discussions with folks we met on the street, New Yorkers continue to regard their city, including the outdoo… | Continue reading
Happy Middle of Pride Month! Here’s an educational video for children: Note that the leaders among the sexual relationships on parade are monogamous, e.g., starting with a family anchored by … | Continue reading
Part of a screen capture from my guiltiest secret (i.e., that I own an iPhone (my excuse: the camera and hardware/software behind the camera)): Was this change to the rainbow flag because software … | Continue reading
Gynecology rotation starts at 7:30 am in the outpatient surgery center. The chief texted the previous night to skip hospital rounds and just meet the team at the outpatient surgery center for the f… | Continue reading
A local 18-year-old, raised on a steady diet of social justice messages delivered by unionized employees at the public school he has attended, asked his mom for help in choosing a primary care phys… | Continue reading
“As Greece installs ‘sound cannons’ on border, Denmark passes law allowing asylum seekers to be sent overseas” (Washington Post): A law passed by Denmark’s Parliament on Thursday allows… | Continue reading
“Starbucks sales miss estimates, shares drop despite rosier forecast” (Reuters, April 27, 2021): U.S. sales returned to pre-pandemic levels, Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson said d… | Continue reading
Featured in the “Children’s Books” category of the New York Times recently… “This Coming-of-Age Novel Features a Girl on the Cusp of Manhood”: Bug lives with her… | Continue reading
“In consideration of the health and safety of our employees and guests who have not been fully vaccinated, Masks are Required AT ALL TIMES Inside the Cheese Shop.” Vaccinations have bee… | Continue reading
I was chatting with a guy who runs an automotive tint film service with three employees. “I can’t hire anyone right now,” he says. What would someone expect to earn? “A high… | Continue reading
If you’re a devoted reader you might recall 20-hour Bonanza flight over the North Pole, in which I discuss a plan to fly to Beaufort, North Carolina with some sea turtles. The good news for t… | Continue reading
A parent at the Lincoln-Sudbury (Maskachusetts) high school received the following email: Dear LS Students. Families, and Staff, It is with profound dismay and disappointment that this past Friday … | Continue reading
“Expanding Medicaid to low-income adults leads to improved health, fewer deaths” (Harvard School of Public Health, July 2012): “The recent Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care … | Continue reading
Tens of thousands of people with money fled to Florida. Broadway shows are closed until at least September. The Metropolitan Opera has turned itself into a TV channel featuring 200-year-old shows. … | Continue reading
Lately there has been a rash of American victimhood groups demanding that others stop hating them. I wondered how a strategy that would never be tried within a family (“if your brother hates … | Continue reading
The government assures us that the U.S. inflation rate is 3 percent. Part of the magic of this statistic is that the actual cost of buying a house was removed from the basket of stuff that an Ameri… | Continue reading
“White Brandeis Dean Kate Slater posts epic critical race theory rant: ‘I hate whiteness’” (New York Post): A white Brandeis University administrator defended critical race theory in a … | Continue reading
From the typical person’s perspective, the most reasonable interpretation of the Second Amendment is that it entitles him/her/zir/them to have a gun and prevents everyone else from having gun… | Continue reading
Looking for a place to rest in between practice helicopter instrument approaches last month, I stumbled on Mike’s Runway Diner at the Auburn/Lewiston Airport (Maine). From the restaurant̵… | Continue reading
The Church of Shutdown abandoned the Sacrament of Masks, at least for the vaccinated, here in Massachusetts at the end of May. The ritual is kept alive at the Apple Store, however. From the Burling… | Continue reading
Proud 5-year-old: “I was chasing Canada geese on my bike.” Me: “Why?” 5-year-old: “I want them to go back to Canada.” Related: Government experts in Everglades N… | Continue reading
Happy Pride Month! I would love to hear everyone’s plans for celebration. We have a two-car garage here in Maskachusetts and, for compatibility with neighbors’ yard signs, I had thought… | Continue reading