JH Kellogg was a physician, so his view came with that stamp of medical authority.

That probably goes back to JH Kellogg and his Seventh Day Adventist religion, and possibly back to the Puritans.

I can’t wait for the GOP to get their electoral whomping in the next few elections. They needed to think of the good of the country instead of their republican political club.

I wanted to highlight a couple paragraphs:

Usually, a complaint from a state or business triggers lengthy reviews before a God Squad hearing. But in this case, the fate of imperiled whales, sea turtles and other at-risk species was in the hands of Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, who invoked “national security” for the exemption, the first such rationale given since the 1973 passage of the Endangered Species Act.

“When development in the gulf is chilled, we are prevented from producing the energy we need as a country,” Hegseth said at the meeting. “Recent hostile action by the Iranian terror regime highlights yet again why robust domestic oil production is a national security imperative.”

I keep thinking of the sci fi flick Equilibrium, where a holographic image of Father was kept going by a successor, but the people didn’t know.

This headline appears to have been replaced by another. Google search still shows this post’s title, but when I click on it, it goes to a different article, “‘WE GOT HIM’: Trump declares success after US airman shot down in Iran rescued”.

Laws are for little people.

In the facilities shut down, what happens with the patients? They can’t just up and walk out like healthy folks.

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What’s the equivalent of this cardio for our ailing brains? A good candidate is reading. Making sense of written text exercises our minds in important ways. We develop what the cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf calls “deep reading processes” that rewire and retrain neuronal regions in ways that increase the complexity and nuance of what we’re able to understand. “Deep reading is our species’ bridge to insight and novel thought,” she writes. Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.

Honestly I think this read-more tactic has gone too far. Install a word counter and start paying attention to how many words are in news articles. I have been doing that, we have a large number of articles around the 5000 word length, with some significantly more. This opinion piece is over 3100 words, shorter than many articles posted. Assuming a 250 words-per-minute reading speed, this article takes 12 minutes to read. We can easily spend the entire day reading the top news stories in their entireties. In the old days, news items almost always had a lede summarizing the article. Today, many stories keep you reading by not having a lede. When we are reading, we do not have time for activities such as going out and holding up a First Amendment grievance sign, or writing a grievance letter to our legislators. We can all too easily get caught up in stories about Ms. Leavitts supposedly-unflattering double-chin photo, a manufactured controversy, simply as a method of wasting our reading time to stories of little importance to our civics-assigned task of being informed citizens.

And some Christians wonder why some of us former Christians don’t believe their New Testament. When smart Christians at the top of human hierarchies fail to practice New Testament principals, they prove it false. But shush, don’t tell the kids growing up with parents forcing it upon them, let them discover that on their owns? And so the religious cycle continues…

Lucky for her, she can afford to leave. Most people do not have that financial luxury.

Money in politics is a topic that’s been discussed ever since I was old enough to read newspapers, 50+ years…

Search says open carry is illegal in Washington DC.

Remember how vaccines work relative to herd immunity.

When I grew up in the 1970s, after Woodstock, Christian private schools were very clear that nobody ever had sex. Look at Mary. Immaculate conception.

I suspect it was a reaction to the Hippies of the 1960s and their free love flower children generation. My my how the pendulum swings.

Does Wilhoit’s law apply to Islamic Theocracy?

Frank Wilhoit said, "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

I do a lot of recipe-ingredient research on AI, and it’ll steer me wrong more often than I’d like. Fortunately, I know enough to be persistent and questioning. I would not take medical advice from it, though I’d use it for supplemental research.

Morrin concluded that the AI chatbot could “miss clear indicators of risk or deterioration” and respond inappropriately to people in mental health crises, though he added that it could “improve access to general support, resources, and psycho-education”.

But as the Trump administration began its boat bombing campaign, the order Hegseth gave “was to kill everybody,” one of the intelligence analysts told the Post.

Some of Hegseth’s tattoos have been analyzed as being symbols of Christian Crusaders. The orders to kill all survivors doesn’t seem much like the Christianity that folks teach their kids in Sunday schools. It’s much darker, much more like the Old Testament than the New. It’s sort of fascinating that Trump is openly attacking the First Amendment and the press, while putting a Christian Crusader in charge of the U.S. military, which reminds us of the lack of regulation surrounding religion, also part of the First Amendment. Thou shalt not kill is one of the 10 commandments, which various states are trying to post in public school classrooms, but here we have an open Christian giving orders to kill.

Trump seems to want complete press fealty, like a king.