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Category Archives: Health
Overmothered Men
America is awash in them. Not just “overmothered” but, more importantly, underfathered. This is also a key part of the sociocultural dysfunction in the black community, because welfare policies encouraged so many black women to marry the government instead of the fathers of their children.
Orange County
A judge has refused to overturn Newsom’s capricious order to shut down its beaches.
Ventilators
Why is JPL building them?
On top of the point that they still have to be mass produced, we now have a surplus, and we’re finding out that in many cases we don’t need them (and may have been killing people with them).
[Update a few minutes later]
Related Twitter thread. Pronation seems to be more effective and safer than ventilators.
Half-Whitmer
Five local businesses have filed suit against her. Good for them.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Are Michigan Republicans growing less supine? One can only hope.
[Update a while later]
Armed protesters flood Lansing as Whitmer attempts to override the legislature.
[Saturday-morning update]
Last link is fixed, sorry.
Bursts Of Exercise
Doing it intermittently throughout the day may be able to undo the damage caused by sitting all day.
De Blasio
The blood on his hands. It’s stiff competition, but he’s probably the worst mayor in America, running its largest city. But then Garcetti is no prize, either.
[Afternoon update]
He threatens to round up Jews who don’t obey his orders.
[Thursday-morning update]
[Bumped]
From Sedentary To Cross Fit
“How I did it in one day.”
Well, started to do it.
Justin Amash
He’s running for president. What does it mean for Trump?
Matt Welch interviewed him. I might vote for him, given that where I vote, my vote for president doesn’t matter.
The New Vaccines
…are being developed using genetic engineering. That will hopefully speed things up.
[Update early afternoon]
More from Nature.