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YES, deconditioning IS a medical condition
Dear Instapundit asks, “Is deconditioning a medical condition?” Yes, YES, a thousand times YES! The insight that deconditioning is a medical condition is just as brilliant and apt as Hans Selye’s observation that stress is a medical condition. The diagnosis of deconditioning gets to the root of a syndrome of problems that otherwise would be …
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Thrilled with Paul Ryan
I am delighted that Romney has chosen Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. It signals that he is serious about fiscal conservatism and restoring America’s economy to prosperity. Ryan is the balance the Republican ticket needed. Dear Keith Koffler* of White House Dossier worries, “Are Two White Guys What the GOP Needs?“: But there’s …
My moment of commitment
Dear gentle readers, I’ve done everything I know how to get through my challenges by myself. But now I’m in a bind that I can’t get out of on my own in time and it feels suicidal not to come clean about my situation and ask for help. My problem is my 16-year-old car …
Weight loss advice guaranteed to make you fat
Over at PJMedia, physician Theodore Dalrymple asks a question that German immigrant and pediatrician Hilde Bruch posed and answered over the course of her career starting in 1935, when she founded a clinic for obese children at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.* The question is, “What are we to make of the fact …
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Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside Yockey
My beloved big grey cat, Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside Yockey, died in his sleep on June 30, 2012, at the age of 15 years and nine months. I raised him from his feral kittenhood and all his life I would hold him in my arms, stroke his chin and sleek his whiskers and tell …
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Watching over my dad tonight
My 96-year-old father had an infected tooth pulled this afternoon. He’s in pain, so I am sitting with him this evening to monitor his condition. We’re watching the Orioles, who are beating the Indians in the bottom of the sixth with a score of 10 to 1. I’ve been away too long. I’ll explain tomorrow. …
Fight political terrorism by convicted felon Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser and Ron Brynaert
Stacy McCain of The Other McCain must have looked like easy pickins to progressive activist, convicted felon, Brett Kimberlin, the Speedway Bomber. After all, Kimberlin had been able to use the skills he’d acquired as a jailhouse lawyer in harassment and intimidation against bloggers Patterico (Patrick Frey), Liberty Chick, Aaron Walker (who blogged as “Aaron …
Bully terrorizes Christian teens while audience laughs
A more precise headline would be, “Bully terrorizes gay Christian children in anti-gay sermon while congregation laughs.” Seriously: gay children were in fear of their lives during the sermon by Pastor Sean Harris shown below. Another pastor wrote to the Fayette Observer that the gay and lesbian Christian teens she counsels not to kill themselves …
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Handy tips for using Facebook’s new timeline
On March 30, 2012, Facebook will change all profiles to its new “timeline” format. I found a graphic today explaining “10 Things You Need to Know about Revamped Facebook Pages,” but it is not embedding properly so I am just going to link it. What I like best about is that it tells you the …
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