And it’s a doozy. I know plenty of people who really need to watch this. Some are bat wielders. And some, well, are not. This is dedicated especially to them. Viral PSA No.1: Kitten Forwards from Jordan Vogt-Roberts on Vimeo.
I Hate Monday
I hate to rain on everyone’s parade, but this I Hate Monday will focus on The Big Day, aka tomorrow, aka Christmas Day. The thing about Christmas – and saying anything negative about it – is that in the eyes of most it’s a sacred day. On the one hand, it’s widely viewed as the holiest day on the Christian …
Well done, University Hospital
Last month in a Medical Examiner article, we called into question a designated smoking area at University Hospital in a major pedestrian corridor (just outside an entrance to University’s Outpatient Center). Earlier this week we noticed it’s gone. Although its new location isn’t far from the previous site, it’s practically hidden away now. Did the move have anything to do …
Here: one shiny new Examiner
(As a preamble, if you don’t see the image of an Examiner front page below, try clicking on the headline above.) This issue, as usual, contains a veritable plethora of good reading, including some eye-opening statistics about TV watching just in time for the Christmas break. Most kids, we predict, will spend the majority of it parked in front of …
HUMP DAY!!!
Or, in skiing parlance, Mogul Day. By the time the next hump day rolls around (Dec. 26) it will have officially been winter for five days already. And so, in celebration of winter, here is a hiatus that is nothing short of spectacular. A word of warning: do not try this at home. There’s probably very little snow in your …
NEW FEATURE!
Beginning today and running every Tuesday until we don’t feel like it anymore, the Medical Examiner proudly presents The PSA of the Week. This refers not to Prostate Specific Antigen, but to Public Service Announcement. PSAs try to bring attention to important societal issues in creative ways. Some of these will be videos, some will be print ads, some will …
I HATE MONDAY: Funerals, Part II
There’s a lot to hate about funerals. That has recently been noted in this very space. It is widely said that death is “natural,” but nothing seems more unnatural than death. Broadly speaking, it is the saddest event humans experience. It’s sadder still that we face it so often until, finally, others experience it when we die. There is something …
I could not have done this interview
How can Diane Sawyer not cry? I would have been. I was. I am.
What is the answer?
The question first: What is the solution to the spree of mass killings of innocent strangers? Do you think there is an answer? Experts describe what happened today as being related to the “Werther effect.” A spike of emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide is known as the Werther effect, following Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, says …
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE???
Want to know what’s pathetic about the graphic below? You’ll probably be dismayed by how many of these tragic events you will not recall. When mass shootings become so frequent that they aren’t even part of the our collective memory banks, something is seriously wrong.