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Should a healthy 52-year-old woman with a normal BMI who has had Covid-19 three times and has received six previous doses of a Covid-19 vaccine get vaccinated with the latest update of the vaccine? The question is asked in a New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Martin A. Makary, Trump’s commissioner of the FDA and Dr. Vinay Prasad, who was appointed by Makary as  head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Their answer is that this is not known and that therefore they were removing... Читать дальше...

Believe it or not, I had a transcendent experience at this year’s Border Security Expo, the annual event that brings Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) together with private industry. I hesitate to describe it that way, though, because I was on the exhibition hall floor and instantly found myself in More

Since “abundance” is apparently the in-thing, I thought I should get in on the act. At the onset, I will admit I don’t have much new to offer to those familiar with my writings, but sometimes a repackaging is useful. I have my usual favorites: 1) Patent and copyright monopolies, 2) The bloated financial sector, More

Most of Trump’s second term declarations and executive orders have been unwise (tariffs) or just plain silly (Gulf of America).  Some of them have been much worse–evil by design and execution.  Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition), defines evil as  “arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct” or as “morally reprehensible.” The presence of evil infects More

Impossible. It’s never happened before. Are you kidding? That’s how most political commentators – virtually across the spectrum – describe the likelihood of New York congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez becoming the next President of the United States. Even many that support her worry that she’s still too young, relatively experienced – and after all still “just” More

It hasn’t been a good week for the guy who decided he was going to be a king and spent his first four months in office ignoring the law, declaring phony “national emergencies” and issuing “royal edicts” disguised as executive orders. But things didn’t go exactly as he hoped — to put it mildly. To More

Two children – a nine-year old boy and his six-year old sister – are playing at “house”, pretending to be their father and mother. Absorbed in the game, they repeat the words their parents have been whispering to each other when they thought their progeny were not listening. Playing like innocent children all over the More

Underground films, transvestites, hippies and freaks, businessmen and secretaries checking out the other side of life, plastic people and people wearing plastic clothes. Smoking the pin joints of Colombian weed sold illegally by a brother hanging on the corner. Go ahead and blush middle America, just don’t call the cops on the party. The Lower More