Not one prayer for Owen Meany?

Bee sting allergies are no joke, and thankfully no kids had anaphylaxis. But it seems preferable to the buzzing, flying things we have worry about in US schools.

Here's an English-language article about what happened:
japantoday.com/category/nat...

Glad to hear doctors in RI are speaking up for transit! This is a major issue for our patients throughout the US.

You don't have to try, they didn't get a nice thing. They didn't make a choice, either, this was an internal LDP competition.

I think @pkrugman.bsky.social made a useful explanation for non-experts, though he was talking about the Fed losing independence as the disconnect: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...

So Roux didn't sour the broth? How delicious!
(Sorry not sorry)

It was so bad that US life expectancy progress ground to a halt in the 1960s due to cardiovascular disease.

I get to work with some great people who study this. Sweeps aren't a pathway into housing. They're not even a pathway to get homeless people off the streets if that's all you care about.
PATHS Encampment Sweeps and Housing Trajectories
dworakpeck.usc.edu/sites/defaul...

There are plenty of stand-alone medical schools the author could move to, including one on the MetroNorth. If he thinks anyone is safe from the gutting of the NIH, he's sorely mistaken.

Can you share the article? I'm not sure that VA salaries are so bad relative to the market (for internists/geris at least), but I haven't worked in the community.
If they're getting salaries from USAJobs, those don't include market pay adjustments. Also, not dealing with insurance is wonderful.

I grew up eating amazing, homemade gefilte fish at Passover. Didn't encounter the store-bought kind until college and I couldn't believe it was supposed to be the same thing.

Check on your neighbors. Check on your family. Sometimes an AC stops working. Sometimes people end up outside out of necessity. Paying just a little bit extra attention to how someone is doing could save their life. This may require you to put down your phone which, we know, but you can do this.

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