Category Archives: COVID-19

Okla-hooo-ma! (Not OK) Yeah

From Harper’s Weekly Review: The state of Oklahoma was found to have spent less than one percent of its COVID-19 recovery funds, and it was reported that an Oklahoma man who was wrongfully imprisoned for murder used his pandemic relief … Continue reading

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What’s doing in the world of autocrats and autocrat trainees?

It’s unusual when Harper’s Weekly Review has an expansive block of facts on one theme. Today, though, I didn’t have to be too clever to understand what Harper’s is getting at: the behavior of Big and Little Brothers all over … Continue reading

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Who rejects allopathic* medicine? Quacks

*Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, is an archaic and derogatory label originally used by 19th-century homeopaths to describe heroic medicine, the precursor of modern evidence-based medicine. — Wikipedia My mom used to slam the term “quack” on any practitioner of non-scientific … Continue reading

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