It's getting more and more difficult to act as the liberal defender of the Obama administration.  When both my blogmate and I are freely quoting lyrics from Vietnam era protest songs, and the lyrics seem just as appropriate in 2013 as in 1973, it's just one more scary parallel to the Nixon years.  I still believe that the Behghazi incident was more of a SNAFU than a deliberate cover-up.  More on the order of willful ignorance than malevolent intent, but even so, willful ignorance is nothing to b...

Driving into work this morning, since I'd finished my David Baldacci CIA hit-man thriller audiobook yesterday, I was listening to a radiology CME (continuing medical education) CD.  These things are drier than the Mojave in July and more boring than the third day of an accountant's convention, but they're a necessary evil.  The reviewer was talking about a study on the effectiveness of IPEM's, which was elucidative in two regards.  First off, I learned that IPEM's are "Internet-based patient edu...

I'd like to be discussing global warming. Scientists at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in Hawaii recently reported that global levels of atmosperic CO2 are at the highest levels in 2-4 million years (but who's counting?) I'd enjoy talking about the Republicans in Congress who ignore the empirical evidence and the research of thousands of climatologists who all agree on global warming, while they take their walking orders and bullet points from the Koch brothers and the oil lobby. Someone...