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Shorts #7

I had two recent experiences I think are worth mentioning.  Here’s the first: As I do about every couple of years, last week I strained my back.  Typically, my chiropractor can fix me right up.  But for reasons I won’t go into here, this time I had to look for

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Medically Unnecessary

A few weeks back, I told you about my left knee.  It’s wearing out.  When I was young and immortal, no one told me that I had a limited number of knee bends and straightens.  After running a couple thousand miles when I was much younger and riding my bike

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The Gender Argument

Whenever we try to push back on the ridiculous notion of a “trans” person, and say that no one can change their gender, we’re told that we’re simply confused.  We’re told that the terms sex and gender have nothing to do with each other.  And that whether someone is a

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Crime and Punishment

Last week, 29-year-old Shawn Shrick was convicted of brutally killing his father’s girlfriend, Margaret Dahl, and her mother, Phyllis Porter, in 2019.  There is no dispute he killed them.  He stabbed Margaret 20 times.  This week, he received his sentence.  And then immediately walked out of jail a free man.

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Surgery On Demand

After my heart attack in 2021, I was told that I should start paying attention to my blood pressure.  Up until that point, my blood pressure had always been fine.  But I decided to take their advice and invest in a BP monitor. What nobody told me was that blood

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