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Patient Zero

We are not giving up on trying to account for the unaccountable events of the day. One of them was the proposal to appoint HRH Meghan Markel to the US Senate. So, things are getting a bit confusing. Senator Feinstein has had no change in circumstance, and we are uncertain what impact her absence might […]

Despite the Shut-Down, Dinner Was Great!

If you were looking for some thrilling medical adventures and a chance to meet our small version of the Covid contagion in Patient Zero. We extend our apologies. We were aware there was a continuing budget problem as we juggled the production schedule. We want to avoid crisis saturation. Let’s just take a quick stroll […]

A Case In Point

We took a break for the weekly Weather Report yesterday, so this is a lurch back to part three on the subject of Medical Adventures. We have tried to frame some of the disparate events as a spectrum of medical process involving all sorts of people, from the White House in two Administrations, Dr. Fauci […]

Breaking News: A Lady Passes

Senator Dianne Feinstein Dead at 90 California governor Gavin Newsom will appoint her … READ MORE We will keep this note short and respectful to the memory of a woman who cut a wide swath through the political chaos of the time in which she lived and served. There is no urgency in recounting her […]

Debates and Distributed Disasters

There was some debate last night. The festivities started at nine last night, ESTand thus was past the bedtime of many of us here on the East Coast. Simi Valley, California, was the local and drove the timing at the splendid Reagan Library with the former President’s jet occupying art of center stage. We will […]

WHO Goes There?

You know how crazy this is. The headlines this morning are filled with news about the Asian Games, the largest ever held with 45 member states sending delegations. These are the ones being conducted with 12,000 athletic competitors at a lotus-shaped mega stadium that can hold 89,000 in Hangzhou. They were opened last Saturday by […]

Medical Adventures

We have tried to keep this quiet, since none of us need the potential repercussions from making wild assertions about things we do not have the educational certification to validate. We are also not going to claim anything about medical topics like widespread infections or unintended consequences. What does occur to us is that we […]

Conflict on the Arlington Line

We are not kidding about that matter. This isn’t the “start” of anything new. We just took a break for a few months of seasonal warmth. The warning about coastal flooding came with the passage of Tropical Storm Ophelia. It would have been more spectacular if her winds had been a little more forthright, like […]

WHO GOES THERE?

It is the Autumnal Equinox today and it appears that we are sliding into fewer minutes of daylight time, lower temperatures, and the arrival of the festive holiday season. We had thought about non-compliance, since the summer was fairly pleasant with the dazzling late-afternoon light flooding Big Pink’s placid Patio. A fellow named Mike Nevradakis […]

Romulus and Remus

Sorry to do this to you on an otherwise pleasant morning. The internal discussion that follows would have been in the mid-1990s, during the 104th Congress. It got recycled in 2003, only twenty years ago, and some of it cleaned up only this morning from old notes. It had another title when it first appeared: […]