Christopher Lance

Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

- John Keating

RFK Jr.’s ACIP bloodbath: I hope you’re all up-to-date on your vaccines… ...because the CDC schedule is about to start shedding vaccines the way antivaxxers on ACIP think that those vaccinated against COVID-19 shed spike protein. Ground zero for RFK Jr.'s extinction-level

I hope you’re up to date on all your vaccines because the CDC schedule is about to start shedding vaccines the way antivaxxers on ACIP think that those vaccinated against COVID-19 shed spike protein. sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-s-aci...

Bill Cassidy failed our country by voting to confirm an anti-science conspiracy monger to head HHS. Millions of children will eventually come to harm because he allowed RFK Jr to lie his way into that appointment. Bill reneged on the Hippocratic oath, and that will be his legacy.

Love me some Mayor Pete, but man A1 is the fastest way to ruin a prime ribeye.

Indeed, Poe’s Law is in effect.

Curse my scrolling skills, I wasn’t fast enough

Linda McMahon repeatedly referred to AI as “A1” during a panel on artificial intelligence in education. A1 steak sauce apparently agrees, it’s best to start kids early.

#A1 vs #AI

My starting word hits the jackpot

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That's where we stand today, one month after DOGE began posting its wall of receipts.

For all that time, the biggest "receipt" on the wall has always been wrong.

Read more of our coverage of DOGE's struggle with errors here: nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Touché!

If Tarantino was right about anything it was this: it’s not possible to watch Chungking Express without getting a crush on Faye Wong.

Man I can’t wait to see how fast egg prices drop after English becomes the national language!

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: a multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer - PubMed Intercessory prayer itself had no effect on complication-free recovery from CABG, but certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a higher incidence of complications.

Not only does therapeutic prayer not work, it actually harms those who know they’re being prayed for.

This study found that when you tell someone who’s recovering from a cardiac bypass that you’re praying for them, they do WORSE.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16569567/

Indeed, that was atrocious, and set the bar exceedingly low.

Then-modern Japan featuring a Japanese secret service that trained in ninja school, with karate, swords and spears? To be fair, I haven’t actually watched it in about 20 years, but I do recall the line when he asks if his fake wife is pretty, and the response is “she has a face like a pig HAHAHAHA”

How is the cap with a political slogan on it not a violation of the Hatch Act?

Call me old fashioned, but I pine for the halcyon days of yore when government employees - even “special” ones - couldn’t wear clothing bearing political slogans while in a government office or building. #HatchActViolation

Absolutely. Some are just bad, but many are RIDICULOUSLY bad. Perhaps it’s nostalgia for an era when there just weren’t many good action films for misogynists and racists to enjoy.

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71% of a afro still better than no afro.

I have a friend at a government agency, who reports that some people who responded to the “fork in the road” email with questions were then let go. Proves that no one was reading their responses, they just counted the reply as a GO vs. a NO-GO.

Today’s purple was ludicrous! I was only able to get it by process of elimination! But a win’s a win!

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I admire all your daily puzzle work a lot, so coming from you it’s a high compliment indeed! Thank you sir!

Sorry to hear Thomas! I post this as encouragement, not as a brag - sometimes I get it in a minute or two, sometimes I have to walk away after 5 min & come back later to get fresh perspective (helps a lot), but persistence can eventually pay off!

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100 days in a row of winning Connections

💯 day streak achievement unlocked! Our government is still in meltdown, but a tiny personal triumph is still a comfort!

Connections
Puzzle #616
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Skin of my damn teeth!

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Too true.

...perhaps due to American Beauty's sheer dominance that year. The Academy then awarded it to him for Gladiator the following year. Denzel could easily have won for Malcolm X ('92) or for The Hurricane ('99); they instead gave it to him for Training Day in '01.