It’s like Nuking from Orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. If your Blood Oxygen is below 70% you’re probably pretty sick for whatever reason. I had undiagnosed Anemia for years and years (told you I was the Whitest Guy you know), it’s something I should be tracking anyway if only to establish a …
Category: News
May 10 2020
Exceptional? You Betcha!
It’s not always a good thing. Robert Reich explains- Under Trump, American exceptionalism means poverty, misery and death by Robert Reich, The Guardian Sun 10 May 2020 No other nation has endured as much death from Covid-19 nor nearly as a high a death rate as has the United States. With 4.25% of the world …
May 10 2020
No Sports?
Yes, Bowling is a sport. My Mother, Emily, actually used it to fulfill her Athletics mandatory electives. I don’t think she was very good and whatever talent she had I don’t. I’m utterly hopeless and was even before my Arthritis. My Grandfather and my Great Grandfather both rolled a few 300s and the scoresheets were …
May 10 2020
The Breakfast Club (shock doctrine)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for May 10th A golden spike completes America’s first transcontinental railroad; Nazis burn books in Germany; Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland; Nelson Mandela takes office in S. Africa; U2’s frontman Bono born. Breakfast Tune Shock The Monkey – Peter Gabriel Banjo Cover Something to think about, …
May 10 2020
Happy Mother’s Day
A DocuDharma tradition now on The Stars Hollow Gazette. I tease my mother by calling her Emily after Emily Gilmore both because overall my family reminds me very much of the Gilmores and because she’s never met a brand name she didn’t like whereas I’m perfectly content to buy generic. I thank her among many …
May 09 2020
Pre-Historic Britain
Sometimes I like to feature Documentaries that have less than obvious connections to current History and Politics. In some ways we know a great deal, pretty Professional Amateur Archeology has become one of those “eccentric” hobbies the English have embraced (like Bird Watching) and on weekends people wandering around with metal detectors is a fairly …
May 09 2020
Health and Fitness News
Welcome to the Stars Hollow Gazette‘s Health and Fitness News weekly diary. It will publish on Saturday afternoon and be open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do when there is a medical emergency. Also an opportunity to share …
May 08 2020
Oh, you mean Stephen Miller’s Wife
Not just Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio’s Valet anymore. A top aide to Vice President Pence tests positive for coronavirus By Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post May 8, 2020 A top aide to Vice President Pence has tested positive for the coronavirus, making her the second known person working at the White House to contract the illness …
May 08 2020
Not So Bad
At the peak of the Great Depression in August 1932 Unemployment was 25.5%. Not as bad as that. At the peak of the Great Recession in October of 2009 Unemployment was 10%. Worse than that. U.S. unemployment rate soars to 14.7 percent, the worst since the Depression era By Heather Long and Andrew Van Dam, …