Seriously, is there any reason the US Postal Service should be in financial distress? My mail today contained, as it does several times a week, not one but two pitches from CapitalOne to apply for a credit card. I have suspected for some time that the primary function of the United States Postal Service is to deliver CapitalOne’s mailings. It …
Winter is peak season for fitness
It absolutely is. Even with temperatures predicted to be near 80 degrees over the next several days, it sure beats whatever it’s going to be in July and August. This time of year we can actually engage in outdoor activities without becoming drenched in sweat – or for your better class of people, perspiration – within the first 30 seconds. …
Our best issue of the year!
So far, anyway. Inside, read the confessions of a lifelong pothead, and how the war on drugs is being lost – but could be won (that information would be found in the following link below, “Breaking The Taboo”). Also, we help you navigate the maze that new regulations have created for healthcare on pages one and nine. Don’t overlook our …
BREAKING THE TABOO
Invest the time to watch this important documentary and you will definitely have some food for thought on how the war against drugs is being fought – and lost. MORE INFO: http://breakingthetaboo.info/
Sheriff’s Department video
Sadly enough, both Richmond and Aiken Counties have already had shooting fatalities this year, and it’s only January 2. Here is actual crime scene video released earlier today: Bad Boys II Men in Black from Jordan Vogt-Roberts on Vimeo.
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 …
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.