It’s no question that gamers are a competitive bunch. All you have to do is spend a couple minutes on Call of Duty online or listen in on a WOW raid to see how much some people are determined to be the very best at their personal addiction. That’s why it’s interesting that so many [...]

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The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. I got our first e-mail listener feedback from what I talked about last episode, regarding whether or not legalizing same-sex marriage necessarily leads to polygamy. I thought it had to, but one listener took on my challenge to come up [...]

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The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. The bombing of the Boston Marathon started a number of things; a terrorism investigation, increased security all over the country, and the media’s attempt to, again, blame the Right for domestic terrorism. Folks, please, let’s take care of the wounded and [...]

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The BBC series Sherlock has hit the Philippines, and although I think the plots are stupid, the dialogue and characters are quirky enough to keep my interest. But as a doc, I got very annoyed with the Dr. Watson limp in story number one. Quick: What’s wrong with this picture? The answer is that he [...]

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Well, today we Filipinos woke up and found we wouldn’t be losing Cardinal Tagle to Rome: Apparently an Argentinian bishop was picked for the next Pope. But choosing a name usually is a hint on what the Pope plans to do when in office, and it is interesting that Cardinal Bergloglino chose the name of [...]

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The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. The sequester that went into affect March 1st has President Obama lying about who came up with it (he did), how bad the cuts are (not bad), and how evil the Republicans are for letting them happen (they [...]

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Osteoporosis is a bad problem for older women. This is the thinning of the bones that one develops with aging, leading to broken arms and hips from minor falls. Originally, women were given female hormones to prevent this, until studies showed that this increased the rate of uterine cancer, and maybe either caused breast cancer [...]

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The Aliens are coming! The Aliens are coming! Or maybe not…. One of the amusement of studying ancient history is how all those sophisticated Yanks seem to think “primitive” people are stupid, so anything they don’t understand is attributed to “Aliens”. As Chesterton once quipped: Once people stop believing in religion, they start believing in [...]

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Welcome to the First Virtual Church of Our Lord and Savior, Steve Jobs. As you enter the sanctuary, please do not make eye contact with anyone. Keep your eyes focused on the screen of the mobile device of your choice. We are relevant and practice diversity here, which is easy since no one will even [...]

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It is the fearful, unthinking herd instinct and the forces that exploit it that are making us such a polarized nation. You don’t have to have a sick religion or be a right wing Republican to be delusional. Twitter is dripping with delusionalism in politics and atheism. And just try to convince me that Oswald [...]

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We read about one incident of a lunatic shooting people in a theater, a lunatic shooting people at a school, a lunatic crashing jetliners into skyscrapers. Then we conclude that all strangers are lunatics, too dangerous to connect with. So we stay alone, unconnected, and slowly we become a nation of benign lunatics.    I see [...]

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I love when elites at green sites put guilt trips on ordinary folks. Yes, these types of articles are needed to educate citified yuppies who love organic food and green living but are blithely unaware that these practices were routine in the days of their grandparents and remain routine in poorer areas of the country [...]

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Ah yes. It’s time for the yearly “War on Christmas”. Right wing rhetoric? Well, it’s a way to sell newspapers…. What has changed in the last ten years is that it is now politically correct to ridicule Christian belief. Yet the latest report is over the top: One NBC Medical Expert named Dr. Snyderman has [...]

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Published by Home Care Assistance, Inc., From Hospital to Home Care: A Step by Step Guide to Providing Care to Patients Post Hospitalization is designed to provide readers the information they need for a variety of situations when a loved one needs help to stay in his or her home. This book is designed for [...]

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When you or your child has been diagnosed with severe food allergies, it really comes down to two choices. You can either keep trying to make multiple versions of everything at meal time or you can choose to move everyone over to the allergy free side of things. Elizabeth Gordon faced that problem as she [...]

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Published in 2009 by way of Outskirts Press, Good Medicine: A Return to Common Sense reflects the author’s working blending together traditional and holistic care to deal with patient illness. The several page introduction is best summed up with the bold face quote on page XI: “This book is all about you, your body, its [...]

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If you ever saw the movie “LaStrada”, there is a quick glimpse of a retarded child with a huge head. I can’t remember why it is in the film, which is sad enough without it:: probably for shock value.But when I worked at a retarded institution, we had one such child, actually a man: Tommy. [...]

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 Last May my wife and I contracted a sinus infection while on vacation in Barcelona, Spain.  It was a nasty creature and it took us several weeks to get rid of it.  A few weeks later, we were off to Maine where we had rented a summer home.   By the time we arrived, my wife [...]

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If I am voting against the President, it is not racism but because he is going out of his way to persecute the Catholic church: The problem? The week after taking office, the President removed conscience rights regulations from the federal regulations. This means that the only thing standing between Catholics and Muslims from being [...]

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While the press concentrates on Tuesday’s main event Obama vs Romney there are many other battles being waged at the state level. Even though I am no longer a resident of California there is a proposition on the ballot that I am watching with great interest and that is Prop 37. At first glance Prop [...]

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Inspired by her own story of personal weight loss, Georgene Dana Collins wrote Obesity Free Forever: Losing Weight from the Inside Out to inspire others. She relates her story from the start of the book before briefly explaining how obese people are victims of discrimination and added health expenses. Those first two chapters set the [...]

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If you are looking for some variety with your burgers, Rachel Ray has the book for you. After a brief introduction to burgers as well as her preferred meat blend, it is on to the recipes in this book published last June. While there are recipes for outside grilling, Rachel Ray thinks of burgers as [...]

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First there was an inter Mormon squabble, when Harry Reid claimed that Mitt Romney paid no taxes. So now the taxes are released, and it is found that Romney “only” paid 20 percent of his income to the IRS, and the reason for the low rate was that he gave a huge portion of his [...]

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Last week I wrote about a fascinating new product in America’s war on obesity, known as LifeSize.  This nifty little product from a start-up company is starting to garner quite a bit of attention. The New York Times did a piece on it. So did the Huffington Post. Newsmax picked up the story. Now the [...]

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Americans have been trying to lose weight for decades.  By every measure, the general population has totally failed in this endeavor.  The Center for Disease Control has these shocking statistics: 34.4% of adults over age 20 are overweight. (BMI > 25) 33.9% of adults over age 20 are obese (BMI > 30) 18.1% of teens [...]

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You could call this the battle of the Titans. Rarely does Big Food argue with Big Food. They much prefer to co-exist in a peaceful but competitive existence. Once in a while through, well the gloves come off, and battle ensues. Sugar vs Sugar pits the two titans of the sweetening business in the ring. [...]

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As the title and subtitle “Straight from the Garden to Your Dinner Table” indicates this is one of the many books published lately that works off the home grown produce angle.  After a short introduction that reinforces that idea it is on to the recipes.   The book opens with “Appetizers” and that is started [...]

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All things in moderation. It seems like a simple idea.  As long as we make sure that we don’t turn to full-on gluttony, a little bit of chocolate cake is probably alright.  But that axiom applies to healthy things as well as unhealthy things. Take, for example, calorie restriction.  While it may seem like a [...]

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There is a big kerfuffle about some asinine politician whose naive comments on sexual assault are being spun to prove there is a “war on women”. I made quite a few clinical comments on several web pages,(wonder how many of them were printed) but as a woman doc who has done quite a few “rape” [...]

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Forget the soap opera about the coddled rich of Downton Abby. Move over reality shows like the Kardashians or Tots and Tiaras. If you want a slice of reality, you might want to check on the latest BBC miniseries on PBS: Call the Midwife. Call the Midwife is a moving and intimate insight into the [...]

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