Shingles can be extremely painful. So much so that some people with shingles contemplate suicide. Shingles is caused by a virus. In fact it’s the same virus that causes chicken pox. The virus can hide out in ganglia, typically in the trunk area, and then escape later in life to cause a painful rash. Fortunately, […]
The murder of a fellow human being is not acceptable (period). Prof. Heather has a good take on what took place and want has been said. September 12, 2025 Letters from an American Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media […]
A partial of a much larger report. The complete report can be found here. As taken from: Americans for Tax Fairness “Sick Profits.” This portion of the article looks at the differences in profits and where those profits are going. The additional profits (mostly gained from tax breaks) are not going to reductions in healthcare […]
Briefly . . .Ultraprocessed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health. Characterizing foods people are eating today . . . people in the US aged 1 year or older obtain an average of 55% of their calories from eating ultra-processed foods. Maya Vadiveloo, PhD, RD, an associate professor in the department of nutrition at the University of Rhode […]
– by New Deal democrat The QCEW for Q1 of this year will be released at 10 AM Eastern time this morning. It should also finalize the numbers for last year. Why is that important? Because it will also set the preliminary benchmark revisions for the monthly jobs numbers last year and into this year. […]
John Thune, Mike Johnson, …, Republican Party leaders, whoever you are; please, please, wake the f*ck up! You and your predecessors got us into this god awful situation. Now, you and you alone have the power to stop the bleeding. The power to rid us of this demented, lunatical, old bastard occupying the office in […]
AB: Yesterday. Both Jan and I decided we would go to Walgreens (Arizona) to get our Covid inoculation. We are both over 65 and supposedly were eligible. Jan called one Walgreens to find out if they had the Pfizer vaccine. She was told we can not get inoculated without a prescription. So, we called and […]
– by New Deal democrat Now that we have the consumer inflation number for August, let’s take a look at real wages and income for ordinary workers. In the jobs report last Friday, we learned that both average hourly earnings and aggregate payrolls for nonsupervisory workers increased 0.4% in August. Yesterday we learned that consumer inflation […]
Building and investment is stifled by the current regulatory regimes. Hence abundance denied. Of course, to gain some of the abundance Sam Walker discusses need investments newer infrastructure to support faster trains. he system is lacking the funding. Sam Walker . . . My following the railroad industry comes from growing up at Hollidaysburg, PA. […]
It is even dangerous in some places. I did go to schools without air conditioning and just fans. It was difficult at times when we got closer to Summer. Then too, we were off from late June till just after Labor Day. We missed the hottest of days. Being in Chicago did not expose us […]