Did you know smoking pot can make you sick to your stomach? I didn’t know, either, until I read a piece in The Washington Post the other day, by Leona Wen, who made her bones as Baltimore City Health Commissioner. Dr Wen has written a number of articles in media since the start of the …
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You Gotta Be Kidding
I have written posts on both of the (probable) major party candidates for 2024. I wrote one entitled, “The Worst Ever” a few weeks before the 2020 election, and one (Bookends) a few months after Joe Biden took office. Since that time, Biden’s predecessor has been indicted in several jurisdictions for various crimes and misdemeanors, …
Computers – A Senior’s Journey
Being In my mid-80’s, I was born in the age of the abacus. Processors (UNIVAC comes to mind) needed whole rooms, special ventilation, etc., all the while having considerably less computing power than today’s cellphones, or, for that matter, with most calculators. My first brush with the big ones was in a course in grad …
Ads
We are bombarded with them as long as we watch TV, listen to radio or otherwise participate in American life. Even public radio and TV have begun allowing them, albeit in abbreviated form. Though ad copywriters have jazzed them up to reach the younger generations (who spend most of the money, after all) there are …
Mail, News and T.V.
Prior to my retirement from DEA, the powers that be sent me to a retirement seminar. We learned many useful things, but the one which sticks to this day – do not watch the news. It’s too conducive to depression. The U.S mail is also a major contributor. On any given day, I receive numerous …
Merry Minuet
They’re Rioting in Africa, They’re Starving in Spain There’s Hurricanes in Florida, And Texas needs rain The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles Italians hate Yugoslavs. South Africans hate the Dutch. And I don’t like anybody very much…….. You get the drift. In a …
Drugs and Alphabet Soup
Over the last century, the Federal effort to fight illicit drug trafficking has been carried out by several agencies: FBN (Federal Bureau of Narcotics), BDAC (Bureau of Drug Abuse Control), BNDD (Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs) and the current flagship, DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). Conventional wisdom argued that the agency best suited to solve …
Doggies
In 57 years of marriage, Flo and I have had a number of dogs. As a child growing up, I never had one. We had a variety of other animals: gold fish, hamsters and even a cat, but no dogs. My mother didn’t like them. Case closed. Flo, on the other hand, had a lovable …
Drug Factoids
Amphetamines fall into two broad categories: CNS stimulants, and hallucinogens. For those of you who are into alphabet soups, CNS stands for Central Nervous System. (Aren’t you glad you asked?). The hallucinogens are all Schedule I, having no medical use. Amphetamine and Methamphetamine are both Schedule II’s. This short treatise will deal mainly with methamphetamine. …
The Leo Court
People who write about the Supreme Court usually refer to it by the last name of the Chief Justice: the Warren Court, the Burger Court, Rehnquist Court, etc. By this method, the current Court would be the Roberts Court. Not so – the most descriptive shorthand to identify the current outfit: the Leo Court. The …
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