Let’s get this out of the way: I reject the idea of college students (or, for that matter, any other students) as “consumers” or “paying customers.” In the U.S., it is broadly true that college students are, in fact, paying for their college education. But at no point in history…

So today I drove to the Walgreens in Seven Points to get my updated Covid booster and my flu shot. I did this because I wanted Moderna, like my previous Covid shots, and none of the Walgreens locations on this side of the river had that. Okay. I made an…

Some background for those of you who don’t know me very well: I was diagnosed in my mid-teens with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (so dignified) and suspected Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (sounds vaguely Victorian, like I should be swooning on a charming settee somewhere), neither of which was understood all that well at the time. IBS got worse — much worse — as time went on; there is now medication available for it, but the medication itself has side effects so severe that I am effectively sidelined for several hours per day, several…

In case you hadn’t heard, last week Memphis police recovered the body of a woman who had been abducted a few days prior, minding her own business on an early-morning jog. Across social media platforms, on which I follow a number of other –– usually much better –– runners (if…

FIRST OF ALL, let’s address the elephant in the room: It is, indeed, Daylight Saving Time, not “Daylight Savings Time.” The distinction is not a matter of mere pedantry (it is, of course, also a matter of pedantry). It is linguistically significant. I was thinking about this last night as…

A student who works a 30hr/week schedule (which is just over 1/4 of my weekly hours, but fine) begged me to accommodate a virtual chat at some fairly odd hours (we settled on tonight at 9pm). I haven’t eaten since Wednesday, and I got some 3.5 hours of sleep last…

Pat Roberson was kinda … outer edge when I was a kid, but I remember when that was an occasional one-off comment that would make you go, “Huh?” Then some time passed, like it does, and somehow we ended up here: Now, as somebody who grew up hearing about demonic…

I don’t know what’s going to happen in Europe. But I know I was right on Friday afternoon when I came home from school and settled in at my desk to donate my weekend to the war effort: Ukraine’s best chance for a free future hinged not on weapons, but on telling a story that would BRING weapons. They bought themselves the time. We told the story — thousands of…

Lots of other people have commented on the general absurdity here, so I will just point out: Medical research is not really a thing you can “debate” in the sense of classical rhetoric. The research methodologies are open to critique, their findings open to interpretation, the theories always subject to…