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submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Overall an excellent biography given #REM declined to be interviewed for the project. The author made a superb choice to weave each member’s individual story into a section of the band’s arc. My only quibble: short-changing “New Adventures in Hi-Fi” —it’s a masterpiece not a harbinger of decline.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Please don’t bet our kids’ health on “formatting issues”. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

At my 14 year old son’s annual check-up. On the health form he is asked “how many close friends do you have?” His answer: “20+” Me: “you know 20 people who would back you up in a fight?” Him: “what?”

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Check out CBS News' Scott Pelley's speech at Wake Forest. "Why attack universities? Why attack journalism? Because ignorance works for power." www.readtpa.com/p/watch-cbs-...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

A distant ship on the horizon

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Lake Michigan

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve come to terms with the reality that all my Star Wars script and book proposals, no matter how innovative and nuanced, get rejected because they all include the line “Sith Lord? More like Sh*t Lord!”

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

A new Falling Rock comic: Bigfoot, truth teller

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The song on repeat in my head at the cookout when some Jerkstore Jones tells me how great things are now.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Another pertinent read on why it’s bad when your government doesn’t know what habeas corpus means.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been a Tottenham supporter for about five years and have no other soccer background. Is finishing 17th in EPL but winning the Europa League like winning the NBA Cup but missing the playoffs? Also, why do I let these teams give me hope?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Me realizing there’s no more Andor.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Prayers for President Biden and his family. And a hope that coverage of this situation can include a nuanced discussion of the risks, benefits and limitations of prostate cancer screening rather than another culture war attack on evidence-based medicine.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Please read this biography.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Pizza and Star Wars discussion with my son is a really nice Friday night.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

New Falling Rock comic: AI is here

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Fairly certain that I take care of more patients on Medicaid with 2+ jobs than patients on Medicaid with no jobs.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Two clinic patients today seen two hours apart. The first wearing a Joy Division shirt and the second wearing a New Order shirt. How do I feel? I feel so extraordinary.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

“Kinds of people”

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Death by a Thousand Cuts — The Crushing Weight of Nonclinical Demands in Primary Care | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. sees value in natural measles virus infections.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Pope Leo had been trying to call his brother on the day of his election; when he finally got through, the Pope asked his brother: “Why don’t you answer your phone?” (WATCH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIjl...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

The Suspension Clause: 1) Doesn't allow the President to unilaterally suspend habeas, especially when Congress is in session; 2) Applies only to cases of invasion or rebellion (this is quite clearly neither); and 3) *Even then,* applies only "when the public safety may require it." (It doesn't.)

submitted 25 days ago • 260 comments

If Colson Montgomery turns it around starting today — that’s miracle number one for our guy Pope Leo XIV #WhiteSox

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Call me skeptical of the President of the United States announcing a trade deal with the United Kingdom on the 80th Anniversary of V-E Day when the Prime Minister is occupied in solemn remembrance of the end of WW2. Seems like a communucations ambush. Mean if intentional. Ignorant if unaware.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Already know this from my day job. But taking care of my elderly mother during her surgical recovery really hits home as to how much we Americans rely on our fellow Americans (who the administration insists on treating as “other”) to care for the elderly and the ill. #medsky

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Not cool. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s meditation: is it the crunching in my throwing shoulder or the fear in my amygdala as my 14 year old whistles league balls past my ear during batting practice that gives me certainty that this is my final year coaching #baseball ?

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Petty in Pink

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The #WhiteSox City Connect uniforms look like an outfit I would have worn while riding my A-Team Big Wheel in 1985.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

No fluoride in the water to decrease cavity risk. No dental benefit to address the cavity. No medical benefit to manage the pain from the unremedied cavity. Tooth be told, the harm is compounded.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

My fellow Americans, I told you from the start that owning the libs would be expensive. Okay, I didn’t. I said owning the libs would be incredible. But you should’ve known that incredible is going to be expensive. Except for me because I didn’t get rich by writing checks. www.bbc.com/news/live/c3...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Outta work early enough to have no idea what the sky is doing.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

If this makes you happy you've been walked to a dark as hell place. And I am sad for you.

submitted 37 days ago • 338 comments

Saturday night in #MKE

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

My sister volunteers as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in Illinois mentoring an adolescent in the foster care system. National CASA/GAL just had critical grant funding pulled by the Department of Justice because helping disadvantaged children is not a priority. nationalcasagal.org

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I’m no expert, but the proclamations by experts of being “perplexed” that Shedeur Sanders remains undrafted through 3 rounds is too much for me. NFL owners and admin have no greater fear than players having independent voices with the means to thrive outside the NFL communications program.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Wake up. www.jsonline.com/story/news/b...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This article provides a fairly good summary of the challenges of the American Catholic Church. My personal experience is that there are many soft-spoken Catholics who relish experiencing faith through the lens of joy. I felt supported by Pope Francis in that. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments