• Update 05/25/2025

    Orthostatic Hypotension I have learned a lot about those two words in the last three weeks.  When I ‘splain them to you, you will know why I have been “missing” for the last three weeks.  That is a condition wherein you have a sudden blood pressure drop, typically when standing up, and you get dizzy… Continue reading

  • Update 04/30/2025

    So, Trump arrested a judge.  First time ever for a president?  A harbinger of things to come?  A Constitutional crisis, or not? ………………………….. A wise expenditure of government funds?  Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) plans to launch hearings into “what actually happened” in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack, adding another conspiracy theory to his portfolio. … Continue reading

  • Update 04/27/2025

    Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency fired around 280 staffers and reassigned around 175 others — on Earth Day.  How appropriate. …………………………….. Actor Jimmy Stewart was rejected by the military after he was drafted—he was too thin. As a show of patriotism, Stewart went on a weight-gaining diet, hoping to reverse the decision. He was accepted by… Continue reading

  • Update 04/23/2025

    As Bloomberg reported, about 90% of the alleged “terrorists” and “gang members” who’ve been sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s notorious foreign prison without due process have no U.S. criminal record. Ah, but Trump doesn’t like your tattoo, or hoodie, or accent, or . . . you get it. ………………………………… In his Easter… Continue reading

  • Update 04/20/2025

    Happy Easter, Earth Day, and whatever else it is.  …………………………………….. At the most extreme, Trump and his allies tried to claim that his victory — the third-narrowest since World War II — represented a sweeping “mandate.” – Somehow this reminds me of when George Bush got re-elected and said he had a mandate to privatize… Continue reading