Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 69. Sunrise is 7:08 AM and sunset 6:12 PM for 11h 04m 23s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 64.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt is shot in…
Medicine
Local Government, Medicine, Public Health, School District
Daily Bread for 9.27.21: Good Public Health Policy is True Optimism
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 86. Sunrise is 6:48 AM and sunset 6:41 PM for 11h 52m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 64.9% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM, Downtown Whitewater’s Board of Directors meets…
City, Conspiracy Theories, Development, Disinformation, Economy, Ignorance, Local Government, Medicine, School District, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.26.21: The Vaccine Divide and the Economic Divide
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 6:47 AM and sunset 6:43 PM for 11h 55m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 73% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1789, George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary…
Disinformation, Ignorance, Medicine, Sen. Ron Johnson, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.25.21: Ron Johnson Descends Still Lower
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 69. Sunrise is 6:46 AM and sunset 6:45 PM for 11h 58m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 81.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1890, Congress establishes Sequoia National Park. Molly Beck reports Despite guidance from…
Daily Bread, Medicine, Right-wing Populism, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.9.21: ICU Bed Supply in Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:29 AM and sunset 7:14 PM, for 12h 44m 40s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress officially names its…
Acculturation, Culture, Daily Bread, Medicine, Migrants, Populists, Reading, Right-wing Populism, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.8.21: Afghan Refugees More Sensible than Many Native-Born Americans
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 7:15 PM, for 12h 47m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1966, the landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired…
Books, Culture, Daily Bread, Education, Fact Checking, Law, Medicine, Populists, Reading, Reasoning, Right-wing Populism, School District, Science/Nature
Daily Bread for 9.7.21: Formation, General
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will see morning thundershowers with a high of 78. Sunrise is 6:27 AM and sunset 7:17 PM, for 12h 50m 22s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.3% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1776, according to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Medicine, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 8.28.21: Vaccine Testing Falsely Equated with Thalidomide Development
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 94. Sunrise is 6:16 AM and sunset 7:34 PM, for 13h 18m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 66.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1845, the first issue of Scientific American magazine is published. Beatrice Dupuy reports…
Conservative Populism, Daily Bread, Medicine, Public Health
Daily Bread for 8.24.21: Ron Johnson’s Push for Ivermectin
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will see afternoon thundershowers with a high of 91. Sunrise is 6:12 AM and sunset 7:41 PM, for 13h 29m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 95.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1909, workers start pouring concrete…
Daily Bread, Ethics, Free Markets, Law, Medicine, Misconduct, Police
Daily Bread for 8.21.21: Hundreds of Wisconsin Police Officers Back on the Job after Being Fired or Forced Out
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be variably cloudy with scattered thunderstorms and a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:08 AM and sunset 7:46 PM, for 13h 37m 26s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1911, the Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo…
Cats, Medicine, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cats’ Genomes
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
In One More Thing We Have in Common With Cats, Katherine Wu writes about the similarities between feline and human genomes: Cats, it turns out, harbor genomes that look and behave remarkably like ours. “Other than primates, the cat-human comparison is one of the closest you can get,” with respect to genome organization, Leslie Lyons, an…
America, Congress, Crime, Disinformation, Insurrection, Medicine, Republicans, Trump, Trumpism
Eyes Averted
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
As video of Capitol riot played, some GOP senators turned away: Almost every senatorial eye in the chamber was glued to the screens as lead House manager Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) played a 13-minute video depicting the events of Jan. 6 to introduce the impeachment case against Trump — with a few notable exceptions. While the…
Authoritarianism, Bigotry, Conway, Ethics, Gluttony, Grifters, Impeachment, Kakistocracy, Medicine, Mendacity, Nepotism, Never Trump, Official Misconduct, Sloth, Trump, Trump-Russia, Unfit
Trump’s Condition: Unfit by Many Standards
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
It’s enough, as an indictment of Trump, to see and then reject his role on purely political grounds: a bigoted autocrat of limited knowledge & reasoning ability with a love of foreign dictators and contempt for American liberal democracy. One doesn’t need a training in medicine to reject Trump. There are, however, compelling critiques of…
Bad Ideas, Coronavirus, Medicine, Public Health, Trump
More Deaths, No Benefit from Anti-Malaria Drug That Trump Pushed
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported. The nationwide study was not a rigorous experiment. But with 368 patients, it’s the…