Bill Stewart

Part of it's television - books have competition for people's attention span. And part of it's the internet as well.

Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.

After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.

I haven't had a veggie chili that seemed like it would benefit from cinnamon.

Six items (counting the 2xbloomingonion as 1 item), so $21 each,
including tax, delivery fee, delivery tip? That's not a bad deal for a restaurant meal.

They kept asking ChatGPT for advice on how to deal with it.

:-)
Having gotten both measles and chicken pox the old fashioned way, can confirm that they sucked. I dodged rubella, mumps diagnoses were pretty random back then, so I got the MMR this year.

DTP vaccine was introduced in 1949.
Turns out the current pertussis vaccine effectiveness can decline in adults who did get their childhood shots; friend had it about 15 years ago when California had an outbreak.
Did not recommend :-)
You need a Tdap booster every 10 years.

The only childhood vaccine I remember was the polio one,
because we had to stand in line and then we got a SUGAR CUBE!
As a little kid, how can you beat that!
But needles never bothered me. I wish we'd had measles and chicken pox vaxes when I was the age where almost everybody got those diseases.

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.

I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."

HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

But ... caffeine and hydration! ...

Back when people dressed in formal costumes to fly on airplanes,
airplanes served actual meals.
US airline food may not have been Air France quality,
but if they didn't remember your veggie/kosher meal they at least had a fruit plate on board.
And there was no TSA naked scanner line.

One place I worked, the IT dept was replacing my computer with a new one, and copied over all the doc/xls/ppt files and mail,
but obviously there was no need to copy the txt files.
Which were almost all my data. A few .c as well.

And I realized. Holy shit I just need to install VLC and people will stop installing this weird stuff. Because at that point for some reason I ran the antivirus for the entire firm. You have no idea. You just don't. It was all fake media players. If you wanna learn what users want run the antivirus.

The Kochs and the Birchers and Cato and Big Insurance have all spent years performing rage against "Socialized Medicine".
So you kinda can rage bait them by talking about how well Obamacare works in the Blue states even though the Red states resisted it as hard as possible.

Sadly, most of the quitters won't be the worst Republicans.
The question's whether they'll be replaced by even worse ones.

Somebody who won't say "no, we can't get away with that" as often.

Oook.

Everything but the little fishies!

Yeah, but the 30-minute delay in recording the transaction on the Blockchain means that they're cold when they arrive.

Created some new artwork of its own, though!

"Hey, for $207 Million, I can lose money for you for a mere 1/1000th of the price!"

I kept my 87 Chevy Van until it was 24 years old and the transmission was dying, and the county air quality district gave me $1000 to junk it under their version of Cash for Clunkers.
If I'd bought a Prius early in my commuting job it might still be running:-)
The body was still fine for van stuff.

In the US, prom is usually near the end of senior year of HS,
so most* students would range from 17 if they were born late in the year to 18 if they were born early in the year.
Depending on school admittance cutoffs, that might be 5 months of older / 7 younger or 8older/4younger.

* plus outliers.

I've met wild turkeys. They know what they threatened to do to me if I didn't back off quickly enough for them.

Cheese graters are a useful tool for doing real work.

It is, of course, legal for any Venezuelan, Mexican, or boater* to shoot him in self-defense.

* My boat inflates to about 6' long and is not rated for rowing out past even the old 3-mile limit, so that doesn't apply to me, in case you're Bsky Safety reading this.

"I've fought Fascism in Britain by infighting with other fascists about who gets to be Fearless Leader, and by being incompetent when I've been in charge!"
-- Nigel Fromage

People just don't realize how beautiful parts of the Philly area are parts of the year.

"Also don't move to Portland - it rains too much and you'll rust."