Tonight’s dinner was a baked lamb loin crusted in panko with a side of peewee potatoes and sauteed shitake mushrooms. The salad was fresh pineapple […]
Read MoreStupid is as Stupid Does
You may remember this famous schoolyard retort popularized by Sally Field in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump. It means that we reveal ourselves through our […]
Read MoreThe Permanent Record
Susan and I have been rewatching the 90s TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We are now just a few episodes from the series finale. […]
Read More21st Century Caligula
You may remember that the Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus aka Caligula had a four-year reign from AD 37 to AD 41. It ended […]
Read MorePuppies and Kittens
In the TV horror genre series Z-Nation, one of the protagonists announces the approach of marauding hordes of zombies with the proclamation, “Puppies and Kittens.” […]
Read MoreBuilding Blocks
Nature builds living things from building blocks. The basic blueprints of life are written in four chemical basis – their letters are A-G-T-C. Triads of […]
Read MoreTerms of Service
You buy a new computer program, maybe TurboTax or a game, and you install it on your PC or laptop. Before it installs, you see […]
Read MoreDeaths of Despair
I’m an old Internal Medicine and Geriatrics doc; don’t have much experience with suicide. One of my patients during residency committed suicide after my residency […]
Read MoreLet’s Get Ready to Roomba!
It’s a battle cry worthy of a Madison Square Garden Pugilistic face-off. The new Roomba arrived yesterday. I cut the packing tape from the box, […]
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