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This is dangerous. More than 60 medical groups opposed this decision to overturn the longstanding, science-based recommendation that saves lives.
The CDC approved a sweeping change to the nation’s childhood immunization schedule, endorsing a recommendation from a federal advisory panel to drop the long-standing practice of giving all newborns a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.
CDC approves major child vaccine change, rejects controversial one
The CDC formally approved a major change to the childhood immunization schedule by dropping the long-standing recommendation for all newborns to get a hepatitis B vaccine.
wapo.st
December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is dangerous. More than 60 medical groups opposed this decision to overturn the longstanding, science-based recommendation that saves lives.
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This isn't going to save any lives. If anything, it will kill more people as it is being used as a justification for war.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Trump declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. What does it mean?
The declaration of fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction is the latest move by President Donald Trump casting the nation’s deadly drug crisis as a national security issue.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This isn't going to save any lives. If anything, it will kill more people as it is being used as a justification for war.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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A 15% reduction in Medicare payments for nearly 800 lab tests is set to take effect Jan. 31. Letting the cuts take effect will leave clinical laboratories with less money to spend on developing new diagnostics or technologies to deliver quicker results. #StopLabCuts
www.axios.com/2025/12/10/l...
www.axios.com/2025/12/10/l...
Testing labs rally to kill Medicare pay cuts
The testing industry argues laboratory services influence 70% of clinical decisions.
www.axios.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A 15% reduction in Medicare payments for nearly 800 lab tests is set to take effect Jan. 31. Letting the cuts take effect will leave clinical laboratories with less money to spend on developing new diagnostics or technologies to deliver quicker results. #StopLabCuts
www.axios.com/2025/12/10/l...
www.axios.com/2025/12/10/l...
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In the NPR interview, @PeteButtigieg had a warning about AI.
He talked of it creating problems so vast, so quickly, that can grow beyond the ability even of a strong government to address.
He talked of it creating problems so vast, so quickly, that can grow beyond the ability even of a strong government to address.
July 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
In the NPR interview, @PeteButtigieg had a warning about AI.
He talked of it creating problems so vast, so quickly, that can grow beyond the ability even of a strong government to address.
He talked of it creating problems so vast, so quickly, that can grow beyond the ability even of a strong government to address.
Why in the world would anyone think that news about Biden being old would be relevant to anything that’s going on right now? It just doesn’t make any sense. Of course there’s a ton of stuff that doesn’t make any sense. Going on right now.
So we are on Year 6 of wall-to-wall ‘Biden is Old’ media coverage. Very exciting. Very relevant. Ratings gold.
May 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Why in the world would anyone think that news about Biden being old would be relevant to anything that’s going on right now? It just doesn’t make any sense. Of course there’s a ton of stuff that doesn’t make any sense. Going on right now.
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At least according to the movie “Ferris Buelers Day Off” the tariffs threw us deeper into the depression:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...
Hawley–Smoot Tariff - Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
YouTube video by International School History
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April 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
At least according to the movie “Ferris Buelers Day Off” the tariffs threw us deeper into the depression:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...
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Can DOGE look into how much money we are spending on Kristi Noem’s costumes and photo ops?
March 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Can DOGE look into how much money we are spending on Kristi Noem’s costumes and photo ops?
Moon setting over the city of Palma de Mallorca.
With a castle on the hill overlooking the town and port. 🥰
With a castle on the hill overlooking the town and port. 🥰
December 16, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Moon setting over the city of Palma de Mallorca.
With a castle on the hill overlooking the town and port. 🥰
With a castle on the hill overlooking the town and port. 🥰
Currently working on putting together the financing for this little gem.
I’m my dreams.
I’m my dreams.
December 13, 2024 at 6:24 AM
Currently working on putting together the financing for this little gem.
I’m my dreams.
I’m my dreams.
You will never starve on a cruise.
At breakfast this morning. Plate full with scrambled eggs, hash brown, bacon and fried potatoes too. Two different servers ask if I want an omelette. Nope, I’m good.
Sit down at a table and a different server walks up to pour coffee. 1/2
At breakfast this morning. Plate full with scrambled eggs, hash brown, bacon and fried potatoes too. Two different servers ask if I want an omelette. Nope, I’m good.
Sit down at a table and a different server walks up to pour coffee. 1/2
December 12, 2024 at 6:50 AM
You will never starve on a cruise.
At breakfast this morning. Plate full with scrambled eggs, hash brown, bacon and fried potatoes too. Two different servers ask if I want an omelette. Nope, I’m good.
Sit down at a table and a different server walks up to pour coffee. 1/2
At breakfast this morning. Plate full with scrambled eggs, hash brown, bacon and fried potatoes too. Two different servers ask if I want an omelette. Nope, I’m good.
Sit down at a table and a different server walks up to pour coffee. 1/2
In other news, I actually got to use my expensive Spanish degree today, and I haven’t even made it to Spain yet.
Was in the hotel lobby getting some coffee and a man walked up next to me.
Man: Hola.
Me: Hola. ¿Como esta?
That was it. That was the entire conversation.
Was in the hotel lobby getting some coffee and a man walked up next to me.
Man: Hola.
Me: Hola. ¿Como esta?
That was it. That was the entire conversation.
December 6, 2024 at 3:58 PM
In other news, I actually got to use my expensive Spanish degree today, and I haven’t even made it to Spain yet.
Was in the hotel lobby getting some coffee and a man walked up next to me.
Man: Hola.
Me: Hola. ¿Como esta?
That was it. That was the entire conversation.
Was in the hotel lobby getting some coffee and a man walked up next to me.
Man: Hola.
Me: Hola. ¿Como esta?
That was it. That was the entire conversation.
Did anyone else notice there seemed to be a lot of fights during and after football games this weekend, both NCAA and Pros?
And what’s with the whole ‘planting the flag’ on your opponents home field thing? Seems like beating somebody on their home field should be plenty.
And what’s with the whole ‘planting the flag’ on your opponents home field thing? Seems like beating somebody on their home field should be plenty.
December 2, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Did anyone else notice there seemed to be a lot of fights during and after football games this weekend, both NCAA and Pros?
And what’s with the whole ‘planting the flag’ on your opponents home field thing? Seems like beating somebody on their home field should be plenty.
And what’s with the whole ‘planting the flag’ on your opponents home field thing? Seems like beating somebody on their home field should be plenty.
He’s not wrong. 🤔
December 2, 2024 at 6:22 PM
He’s not wrong. 🤔
And just like that we are into December.
December 1, 2024 at 6:59 PM
And just like that we are into December.
Another one of my all time favorite albums, Jackson Browne’s Running in Empty was released in 1977. The album hit No. 3 in the Billboard Pop Albums chart in 1978 and stayed in the charts for a total of 65 weeks.
So many great songs on this album! #ClassicRock
So many great songs on this album! #ClassicRock
November 30, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Another one of my all time favorite albums, Jackson Browne’s Running in Empty was released in 1977. The album hit No. 3 in the Billboard Pop Albums chart in 1978 and stayed in the charts for a total of 65 weeks.
So many great songs on this album! #ClassicRock
So many great songs on this album! #ClassicRock
Surpassing Grease? Gasp! Say it ain’t so?
‘Wicked’ officially becomes the highest-grossing musical adaptation of all time at the domestic box office, surpassing ‘Grease.’
November 30, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Surpassing Grease? Gasp! Say it ain’t so?
What is your favorite college football rivalry?
Sitting here watching the Michigan - Ohio State game and wondering if there are any fiercer rivalries than between these two teams? Maybe Alabama - Auburn? 1/2
Sitting here watching the Michigan - Ohio State game and wondering if there are any fiercer rivalries than between these two teams? Maybe Alabama - Auburn? 1/2
November 30, 2024 at 7:45 PM
What is your favorite college football rivalry?
Sitting here watching the Michigan - Ohio State game and wondering if there are any fiercer rivalries than between these two teams? Maybe Alabama - Auburn? 1/2
Sitting here watching the Michigan - Ohio State game and wondering if there are any fiercer rivalries than between these two teams? Maybe Alabama - Auburn? 1/2
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Indeed, I wrote a whole article about how the abject incompetence of "AI" that exists in the real world means the "AI" of fiction and film has been revealed as optimistic at best, even the murdery ones:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scal...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scal...
November 25, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Indeed, I wrote a whole article about how the abject incompetence of "AI" that exists in the real world means the "AI" of fiction and film has been revealed as optimistic at best, even the murdery ones:
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scal...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scal...
This day in 1963. I think everyone my age can still remember where they were, & what they were doing when JFK was assassinated. I was in elementary school and the principal announced over the loudspeaker that JFK had been shot. Certainly one of the defining events of my life. Link in comments. #JFK
November 22, 2024 at 11:58 PM
This day in 1963. I think everyone my age can still remember where they were, & what they were doing when JFK was assassinated. I was in elementary school and the principal announced over the loudspeaker that JFK had been shot. Certainly one of the defining events of my life. Link in comments. #JFK
Why is it that during punts the announcer will almost always mention that a kicker is ‘left footed’ even though they never say anything about ‘right footed’ kickers?
November 22, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Why is it that during punts the announcer will almost always mention that a kicker is ‘left footed’ even though they never say anything about ‘right footed’ kickers?
The bright Colorado sun this afternoon is making those Denver Broncos orange uniforms look like they would glow in the dark!
November 17, 2024 at 9:49 PM
The bright Colorado sun this afternoon is making those Denver Broncos orange uniforms look like they would glow in the dark!