…they become thugs, harassing people for spilled water and three peaches. ♦ Cahill voices anger after customs detains his family over fruit It’s not necessarily a matter of “contraband fruit,” which is fairly regulated in order to prevent bugs and disease from being carried across borders. The issue is how the Homeland Security fulfills its [...]
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Flawed thinking and medicine.
Just a quickie. I came across a couple of unrelated articles that involved errors in thinking and medicine and disease. ♦ Deck is stacked against “mythbusters” In which because of the way people (mis)remember information, a recent CDC pamphlet may have promoted influenza misinformation. ♦ Black Box Warnings on Antidepressants Backfires Possible misinterpretation of teen [...]
READ MORE »I asked if my baby was OK and [he] told me if I moved he was going to put a bullet in my head.
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Who is the “he” in today’s blog title? Is it a terrorist? A bank robber? A kidnapper? No, it’s a police officer raiding an innocent person’s house. “(The officers) told them to get down on the f—ing floor,†she said. Her 16-year-old son, who was feeding the baby, was also ordered to the floor and [...]
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