PSA of the Week

Not that McDonald’s is the great satan or anything, but come on. You’re not a kid anymore. You can do better.

I LOVE MONDAY

When it comes to things to love on a Monday (or any other day), random acts of kindness have to be near the top of the list. When a complete stranger – strike that – a perfect stranger does something kind, it’s profound beyond any connection to the act itself. I remember once, on Augusta’s legendary Tobacco Road, I made …

Today marks exactly 198 years

Can you imagine having a tooth pulled without novocaine? Having an ingrown toenail treated without local anesthesia? What about having a wound of some kind cauterized with a red-hot poker while you’re watching, fully alert? As one doctor says in this week’s cover articles, medicine at one time was like the Spanish Inquisition. The screams of patients haunted him decades …