August 21, 2023 — Pebbles Trippet is in Tijuana about to undergo four days of stem cell therapy to treat Chronic Obstetric Pulmonary Disorder (COPD). Dr. Salomon Karam, whose degree is in “regenerative medicine,” will…
Posts published by “Fred Gardner”
Tensions suppressed during the elders’ lifetime usually emerge when their estates are adjudicated. If the deceased weren’t rich, these tensions go unnoticed except by members of the families involved. If they were rich — and…
In response to our item about Major League Baseball’s hypocritical “homage” to the Negro Leagues, John Woodford – an AVA reader whose resume includes Times correspondent and editor of Muhammad Speaks – sent along an…
On Tuesdays the New York Times still runs a “Science” section in the print edition. It never attracts advertisers but Big Pharma supports it with online ads. (The Times has more than 8 million online…
In late April Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that he is running for President, challenging Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination. In May a poll put his support among rank-and-file Democrats at 20%. In June…
“Everyone always has the fanciest reasons for what they do.” –Lillian Hellman The headline atop the Times sports page June 21 was a sanctimonious lie: “In Homage to Mays and the Negro Leagues, MLB Heads…
In eulogies Daniel Ellsberg is defined as a “whistleblower,” but he didn’t really break the news about “our” role in Vietnam to US Americans who had attended a teach-in or read about the war in Ramparts,…
“They took a clean-cut kid and made a killer out of him, that’s what they did.” –B.D. As atheists and intellectuals, Theodore and Wanda Kaczynski were atypical among second-generation Polish-Americans who had been raised Roman…