Here it is, today’s Medical Examiner. It features a lot in just 16 pages: the usual faves like the world’s only Augusta-based crossword puzzle with clues only locals will get and a semi-wicked Sudoku and two other word puzzles (for brain health). Then you’ve got your Pharmacy 411, a delicious AND healthful recipe (for popsicles) as well as all the summer food safety tips you’d ever care to read (you should have seen all the ones we cut out) and a book review too.
Highlights of this issue (not that the features above aren’t) include Bad Billy Laveau’s take on today’s moral climate through the eyes of Delta Blues singer Odetta. White Coat columnist Ross Everett, meanwhile, looks at the Hobby Lobby decision through the eyes of history. A reader has contributed her new view of the world now that she’s a freshly-minted handicapped person. We belatedly celebrate Lane Courtesy Month (it was in June. How did we miss that?). Our brand new PET VET column has its world premiere in this issue! Read it aloud to your pets.
One of the highlights of this issue: Remembering the life of Mary Sargent. You probably won’t recognize her name, although it has appeared on these pages before. She was an adviser of sorts to the Medical Examiner and also editor and publisher of her own newsletter. She died earlier this month at a very young 101 years. I do not exaggerate when I say very young. A few years ago she said something to be about sexting. I smiled to myself and then I corrected her. Mary, I said, the term is “texting.” She said, “No, I’m not talking about texting, I’m talking about sexting.” That day was the first time I had ever heard the word, so I sat and listened while a 96-year-old lady explained the difference between texting and sexting to me. I guess I need to get out more.