Not being a veteran, a military scholar or a person with any knowledge of defense beyond what I read in the newspapers, I’m going to accept what David Brooks says as fact. We are screwed. (Please forgive the lengthy quote.)
There seemed to be little reason to discuss Jack Smith’s report with regard to Trump’s January 6th prosecution as it provided little new beyond his rationale for not charging Trump with insurrection. That Smith determined that a prosecution was appropriate, and an indictment obtained, reflects the position that there was legally sufficient evidence of
In the not too distant past, I’ve described elections as a person in a pit fill with vomit about to have a bucket of feces dumped on his head. Should he duck? We have a two-party system, no matter what the libertarians say, and for a great many Americans, perhaps even the majority, the choice
A primary justification for taking a government job was job security. After all, it’s not as if the government is going out of business anytime soon. But that may not quite be the case as the Trump administration takes over, promising to create massive disruption in the federal workforce for two independent reasons. The first
A surgeon I knew very well once told me that there were surgeons who came by their skills naturally, and surgeons who were plodders and just worked hard to gain a mastery of their craft despite their limitations. It gave me pause to wonder which, if I had to choose, would prove to be the
Donald Trump will be sentenced today by Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, Juan Merchan, upon his conviction for 34 felonies. Absent any monumental change in circumstances, his sentence will consist of a stern look and admonition to never do it again. Whether Trump can control himself from using his opportunity to
Being the spouse of a doctor means you’re going to inevitably get free shit. There are many organizations, vendors and such that want your partner’s attention and they will eventually try to ply said attention with all manner of tchotchkes.
Usually these will be pens, pencils or notepads. Occasionally someone will get cute and give
The 118th Congress didn’t do much, but it did enact the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act which, effectively, will ban TikTok. The rationale is that the owner of TikTok, ByteDance, is integrally related to or controlled by the Chinese communist party. As such, it can harvest the information available through the platform
It comes on the heels of Jeff Bezos’ $40 million bribe in the form of payment to Melania for an Amazon documentary, because who isn’t desperately desirous of watching a documentary about the fascinating nude model from Slovenia made good? Mark Zuckerberg, the third richest man on the planet, issued what, under any other circumstances,
There are more stickers on a ladder than on a NASCAR race car, the purpose of which is to putatively warn you not to eat the ladder, insert it into your ear or climb up to the very tippy-top rung after injecting heroin into your veins. Okay, I exaggerate just a bit to make a
