“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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Salman Rushdie
Iran never cancelled the hit on Salman Rushdie. Like a mob boss with a hard-on for vengeance, Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death in 1989. Rushdie went into hiding for decades. In a footnote to my post on the Western Canon, I referenced the fatwa as an example of dangerous intolerance that derivesContinue reading “Salman Rushdie”
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 