A couple weeks back the New York Times Magazine featured a laudatory article on the miracle of the opioid addiction medication Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone), itself an opioid), hailed first as an “orphan” drug initially…
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I’m gonna charge tariffs You’re gonna have to pay And pray for your sad little 4 0 1 K You’ll do it my way I’m gonna close food banks No more surplus cheese Until I…
I have been fascinated by ancient Egypt since I was very young. I always knew I'd go there sometime in my life but now, at age 60, most of my life had passed and the…
For a decade or more Dave Eyster had been striding along nicely, doing well, sitting pretty, operating his local Inmate Prison Assembly Line with great efficiency, if not much compassion. But who wants a compassionate…
This is a photo of him in 1980, when he was 16. He’d had only a few seizures at the time. I don’t know if he had started on Dilantin – the first of many…
It's mostly about livestock management: let's say you've got 300 million free Americans each of whom is convinced that they know the way things ought to be and when you ask each of them about…
An estimated 15,000 illicit farms once operated behind the Redwood Curtain, with a pound of weed selling for upwards of $8,000. My friend was bound together with the other trimmers on the floor of the…
Actually, I was not a computer professor but a junior college part-time computer instructor in the late 1980s at Evergreen Valley Community College in San Jose. I bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1979 when…