The Birds of the Air
Dear Tara, I heard that your cancer has spread. They tell me you’ll need to undergo some invasive surgeries, not least of which is a mastectomy. They tell me you’re frightened.
Health
Transgendering into a killer
He looked like Chris Farley. Even after 6 years of taking transgendering drugs, Jesse VanRootselaar, 18, had a 5 O’Clock shadow that powder did not completely cover. Police say he shot and killed 6 people and wounded 25 others
A Message For Her
To the woman who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The woman whose particular cancer, the doctor said, is the “bad kind.” Whatever the hell that means. Is there a “good kind” of breast cancer?
OMICRON variant SARS-CoV-2: The “Small O” That Saved the World
Officially, the experts will tell you it means “small O.” Cute. Harmless. Like a Sesame Street vowel. And sure — in the Greek alphabet, that’s what it is. But that explanation is also the kind of tidy little classroom answer you give kids when you don’t want them asking follow-up questions. You know. Like the ones adults should’ve been asking in 2020.
Anus and Genital Rashes: Fox News, Big Pharma, and the Breakfast-Time
I turn on Fox News for the same reason a man checks the weather before he goes outside: I want to know what’s coming, and I’d prefer not to be blindsided by it. Is the world on fire? Are we at war? Did Congress accidentally pass something useful? Did somebody somewhere do something so insane it requires a full segment and a therapist?
The Next Pandemic Will Test More Than Our Immune Systems
By any honest accounting, the pandemic did more than disrupt daily life. It rewired cultural instincts, reshaped how Americans relate to authority, and quietly altered how dissent is treated in a society that once prized it. The damage was not limited to lost lives or lost income; it extended into trust, neighborliness, and the very idea of personal agency.
Making Virginia’s Constitution an Abortion
Every abortion is a bloody mess. Virginia Democrats are making a mess of the Virginia Constitution with a “Right to Reproductive Freedom. They’re determined to make killing a baby in the womb an “individual” right.
The Woman on the Curb
I see her on the street. She is a hospice nurse. I know this because she is standing directly beside her company SUV, which is covered in vinyl logos, parked outside an older house. She is mid-40s, wearing scrubs. And crying. Face-in-her-hands crying.
The Beautiful Patient
The 20-year-old girl is sleeping when we enter her hospital room. But her mom tells us to come in anyway. I’m carrying my fiddle case. My friend Bobby is carrying his banjo.
As Politicians Debate Whether To Funnel Ever More Money Into Obamacare . . .
Assisted Living Facility In-House Doctor: “Obamacare diverts Medicare funds from life-saving procedures to comfort care.” He hinted that federal funds were flooding into assisted living facilities & other places, and away from hospitals & treating physicians, which has since been bore out.
Want Rocks In Your Lungs? Take The Jab!
We three refused to take The Jab, the faux Covid vaccine, that was supposed to prevent us from getting the second political disease in the USA. Not only did it NOT prevent patients from contracting Covid, it turned out to be damaging and deadly.
Paperwork Over Patients: The Federal Assault on Nursing Education
America doesn’t have a nursing problem—we have a bureaucracy problem. Every time Washington claims it’s going to “fix” something, it adds another layer of paperwork, redefinitions, and unelected decision-makers who have never set foot in a hospital at 3 a.m.
The Great Sleep Scam: How We Forgot to Shut Down Like Our Ancestors
The idea of a solid, industrial-grade, perfectly rectangular block of sleep is about as old as the lightbulb—and about as natural as chicken nuggets.
After the Shutdown, the Next Crisis Appears
The long federal shutdown was broken without Republican compromise. Longtime Washington watchers, accustomed to Republicans caving early from fear that the Democrats would win the PR game, were pleasantly surprised to see that the GOP didn’t give in on anything serious this time.
Acknowledging ‘Male Loneliness’
Certainly, all people deal with times of loneliness, but men are disproportionately affected and probably always have been, but like so many other things in a man’s life, this emotional struggle has just been ignored.
Oregon’s Massive Waste Of Medicaid Dollars
Oregon had massive Medicaid funds, far in excess of those needed to provide medical care to the state’s Medicaid population. Instead of doing the ethical thing and returning the federal money that they did not need, they wasted tax money on cooking classes and dancing lessons.
Half a Brain, Whole Lotta Dumb: Why America Needs Both Hemispheres
We humans were built with two brain hemispheres for a reason. The left hemisphere handles logic, reason, and order — the spreadsheet half that alphabetizes the soup cans. The right hemisphere deals in creativity, intuition, and art — the half that paints the soup cans and calls it “social commentary.” Together, they make a functioning human being.
What Are Democrats Whining About? Obamacare Was Designed To Fail
Obamacare’s short term goal was to slice payments in half for Medicare doctors, discouraging younger doctors from becoming Medicare doctors. The long term goal was as an interim step toward full socialized medicine completely controlled by the federal government.
New Cancer Treatment Protocol: A Success! The Hybrid Orthomolecular Cancer Protocol cures a man of Stage 4 prostate pancer
In 2023, according to the US Centers for Disease Control, 613,349 Americans died of cancer. That number is projected to increase to over 618,000 this year. As a result, medical research has been focused on the development of cancer treatment protocols for decades for all types of cancer.
Tylenol agreed with Trump; 8 years ago, the company said, “We actually don’t recommend using any of our products while pregnant.”
On March 7, 2017, Tylenol tweeted, “We actually don’t recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today.”