“Son, there are assholes everywhere” was my father‘s pithy rejoinder when I complained about some idiot or another – something I did frequently as a teenager. That reminder didn’t mean that assholes are the most common form of people, but that everyone had the capacity to be one. Hence my axiomatic approach – “trust butContinue reading “DISPLAYS OF POWER”
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Sound and Sanity
At 6 AM I was wakened by an intermittent pop-pop … pop. It wasn’t the dog. What was it? Sluggish and slow, I got out of bed to investigate. Not the cats nor the kids. Moving to the kitchen I saw the open window and realized it was the roofers starting early on my neighbor’sContinue reading “Sound and Sanity”
ANATOMY CHANGES
First published in 2020, a paper documenting anatomical changes shows an increased prevalence of an additional artery in the forearm. Analysis of the literature showed that the presence of the median artery has been significantly increasing (p = .001) over time, from approximately 10% in people born in the mid-1880s to approximately 30% by the end ofContinue reading “ANATOMY CHANGES”
Protective Arts 