It was one of those weekends when everything else seems more compelling than link-hunting. Fighting Microsoft's self-sabotage-in-doomed-effort-to-sell-new-computers (I would like to see this be the year of the lowest sales of new computers since, say, 1982! Because of self-sabotage!), observing Serena's kitten pass the developmental milestone of excreting solid bodywaste all by himself in the old Samantha Box, noting what a bad year for fleas and ticks this is and trying to shoehorn all-new flea combs for finicky cats who resent a used one into the weekly shopping list, appreciating the dayflowers even if the ones that survived the dicamba vapor drift are the invasive Asian species I've tried to thin away, breathing 90+% humidity while not having gills, calculating that the Cat Sanctuary is due for the first frost on the twelfth of October based on the old saying about the first frost coming three months after the first katydid calls...mostly fighting Microsoft, actually. Though I've also been reading the ARC (advance readers' copy) of a new outside-the-box romance by Emily Dana Botrous (from the Michigan series not the Blue Ridge Mountain series, but I'll take it) and, when able, writing Publishable Things.
Ethical Questions
One for students to debate: Suppose you are a doctor. Your specialty does not involve giving vaccinations, but you've been ordered to make sure all your patients are vaccinated. You believe the vaccines you've been ordered to use are harmful. Your patients don't know what to believe; some of them want those vaccines. Believing that you're saving the lives of people whom the vaccines might kill, you destroy the vaccine doled out to you and give all of your patients simple saline injections, whether they want the disputed vaccine or not. Do you deserve jail time for this fraud? Or are you a hero who's saved your idiot patients from themselves?
I don't know about jail time, but I think Dr. Moore owes some of his patients refunds. Of course, some of them may owe him their lives...but I think he should have explained the situation to them and respected their right to make informed choices.
You can Google "Bondi dismisses case against Moore" and pick your news source; if you still read censored news media, it's on NBC, BBC, CBC, etc. I liked the discussion at
Music
Like the butterfly posts here...it's not about glyphosate, or then again, actually it is.
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