The Risks of Living in a Safe World
2015-02-26 – I have a Facebook friend who seems to be an anti-vaxxer. Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. You can’t always tell from Facebook. My Facebook friend is […]
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Global Warming and Politics in the Windy City
2015-02-24 – In a few hours we’ll know whether we’re going to have an election for mayor in the City of Chicago. What’s that, you say, aren’t you having one […]
Please Dress Your Children Warm
2015-02-22 – We live across the street from a lovely school and park. The school and especially the park were two of the things that attracted us to the neighborhood. […]
Still Crazy After All These Years
2015-02-19 – I’m not sure why I watched the Saturday Night Live 40th Reunion show. It took me two evenings to get through it. And “getting through it” is how […]
Getting Things Done
2015-02-17 – Every year there is one crew that seems to be able to clear the snow from the streets in a way that they stay cleared. It usually happens […]
Seltzer Boy—Two Cents Plain
2015-02-15 – It seems that sparkling water is popular again. That’s what Jill Berman at the Huffington Post says. She says that “Sparkling Water Is the New Soda.” When she […]
Not Racist Just Because I Killed Someone Because of Their Race
2015-02-12 – It’s a sad coincidence. That’s all it is. A couple of stories floating around the Internet and making people mad, but they had nothing to do with racial […]
Scape Goats Are Existential Analgesics
2015-02-09 – I can’t believe it, sometimes, how unpleasant pain is. This was brought home to me very vividly today when I was out walking Lefty. The walks are very […]
Big Pharma vs. Big Insurance
2015-02-08 – One of the knocks on the widely accepted wisdom that #vaccineswork is that this knowledge is corrupted because of Big Pharma. The idea is that Big Pharma falsified […]
Defense of the N-Word?
2015-02-03 – I want to first say that I don’t normally use “the n-word.” But I used it in the title of today’s post because it made my title kinda […]
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