When I heard my son’s voice for the first time as he entered the world, his cry punched right through me. I gave him his first bath and shampoo. I fed him first. I held him in my lap and stared down at him for hours.
What could Biden be thinking, trading a mere basketball player for the “Merchant of Death” while leaving a Marine behind? The Trumpy right is ramping up and up, getting all sanctimonious, about trading the freedom of (as the far right puts it) “a black leftist lesbian celebrity who hated this country” for that of an “ex-Marine.” So, election denier Daniel Greenfield of the most rightwing fake intelligentsia, what is the worst one of those invective modifiers you attach with such venom to Brittney Griner, a woman who helped win an Olympic Gold Medal for her country, the United States? “black”? “leftist”? “lesbian”? The far right is lionizing Paul Whelan, the “ex-Marine.” Um...he’s an ex-Marine because he well and truly earned a bad conduct discharge for being a scammer, a thief, and a lousy desk jockey supply clerk “Marine.” The military found him thusly, a military appellate court found the same, yet the ultra-right is selling him as some sort of patriotic freedom fighter held behind enemy lines and deserted by his traitorous government. Look it up.
In my last column I introduced the late Glen Clopton, whose life after his release from the army at the end of World War II was spent in law enforcement. During the first four of those years, 1945-1949, he policed the streets of El Dorado, county seat of my home county, Butler. A month after returning to civilian life, Glen and his wife Marian were in Coffeyville visiting relatives when Glen visited an employment office and learned that El Dorado had four vacancies for policemen. He applied and got a job working the night shift.
FROM ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2022 ASK THE DOCTORS by Eve Glazier, M.D., and Elizabeth Ko, M.D. Dear Doctors: I was happy when I saw on the news that tomatoes help your gut microbiome.
In my town, Portland, Oregon, we just lost yet another person to gun violence, this time as a result of an argument over a parking spot. Seriously.
“Dad? Did those early horseless carriages have big gas tanks?” I asked. I was about seven years old and sitting in the front seat of our old Packard car in the early 1950s. It was a really neat big car that my dad could drive down the road with one finger on the steering wheel, the camber of the road curves making driving easy. We were at a gas station and Dad was still in the driver’s seat because at that time, we didn’t fill our gas tanks ourselves. And if I remember right, gas was about 29 cents a gallon. But then some candy bars were 5 cents, a Coke in a glass bottle sitting in a cold water chest was 10 cents, and a new car was only two thousands dollars.
Jackie Mundt, The Christmas season is a time of joy and anticipation. For weeks the Christmas Spirit grows with every decoration hung, carol sung and sweet treat consumed.
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Caleb Stegall is in the news for a letter he wrote to KU Law, his alma mater, stating that he would no longer serve as an adjunct professor there. I confess, this surprised me.
Merriam-Webster defines humanity as “compassionate, sympathetic, or generous behavior or disposition.” It is also defined as “the quality or condition of being human.” The first definition is what people want in a health care provider. We all want to be taken care of by a caregiver who is compassionate, kind, sympathetic, and generous with their time and knowledge.
Dear Doctors: I thought I had a bad summer cold, but it turned out to be the flu. I didn’t know that can happen in the summer. Urgent care offered me an antiviral medication, but since I’m not familiar with those, I said no. I would like to know more about antiviral treatment for the flu.