Health and Sanity category archive
Theocracy 0
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Daniel Bogard and Tana Senn argue forcefully that overturning Roe v. Wade violates the First Amendment’s provision that
Here’s the nub of their argument; follow the link for context.
Vaccine Nation 0
When I was a young ‘un, I had both types of measles (and chicken pox). The rubella wasn’t so bad, but the rubeola–oh, never mind.
Plus, one of the memories etched in my brain from when I was about three–when you don’t really have memories, they’re more like snapshots–is of my parents in bed with the mumps, an illness much more serious in adults than in children. It was the sickest I ever saw them.
I would not will those days to come back, but I seem to have become an unwilling member of a society of stupid in which facts and science and knowledge no longer matter.
We are a failing state.
Precedented 0
Writing at the Orlando Sentinel, Miles Zaremski argues that there is precedent for Justice (sic) Alito’s draft abortion decision. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Phoning It In 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal, whose job involves dealing with health insurance companies, describes dealing with “customer service” robots.
If you’ve ever spent 45 minutes or an hour trying to get through to a real live human being, only to be disconnected (thank you, land line telephone company), you will be able to empathize with her. Here’s a bit.
Too Much Tech 0
Kathryn Haydon suggests that too much tech–more specificallys, too much internet and “social” media–is hazardous to our mental processes. Here’s a bit of how she describes the problem:
With alerts and apps and email and social media and calls and texts, we are subject to this type of mental whiplash day in and day out. A steady diet of lower-level thinking is hazardous to our thinking . . . .
Follow the link for her thoughts on how to keep “smart” stuff from dumbing us down.
Maskless Marauders 0
It’s been a while since I last read the Declaration of Independence, but, to the best of my recollection, nowhere in it did the Founders argue that persons have an inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the perpetuation of a pestilence.”
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and meet a maskless marauder.
Vaccine Nation, Prima Donna Dept. 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
We are a society of selfish.
Maskless Marauders 0
Some persons just aren’t happy unless they can disdain the common good and ignore the social contract.
Aside:
Frankly, I doubt that they understand the concept of the common good and are ignorant of that of the social contract.
To put it another way, they are–er–self-regarding porcines.
The Medicine Show, Horse–er–Paste Dept. 0
The Majority Report crew discusses a Brazilian study that shows that Ivermectin is wholly ineffective as a treatment for COVID, despite the pipe dreams of wingnut whack jobs.
The Clock Is TikToking 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
