My latest podcast with KevinMD on Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General kevinmd.com/2025/06/when...

How DrKoop dot com, briefly the world's top health site, helmed by Koop in his 80s - how it rose and how it fell; from my new Koop biography. "The definitive biography for decades to come," per Randy Balmer. Per top online medic KevinMD. kevinmd.com/2025/04/how-...

Who has $3K cash?

The kicker is in the last para. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here's an extract from my biography of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, published later this month by U Mass Press. Enjoy - and buy one! This from the top physician site, KevinMD: kevinmd.com/2025/03/c-ev...

Everything is terrible, so why not learn about the first woman to run for US president in 1872. It is a story of defiance and success against incredible odds, so maybe it can cheer us all up a little…

Looking forward to the publication of my biography of Dr. Koop! Next month from U Mass Press.

So MS is raising its price for our account by just less than one-third. I'm relieved that this will help fund "new innovations." Seriously....

Sigh

⚡️ Macron, Tusk to discuss deploying peacekeepers to Ukraine after ceasefire, Bloomberg reports. President Macron is visiting Warsaw on Dec. 12 to brief the Polish prime minister on his meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump last week.

I hope this lady, who is plainly a bit of a nut, gets a reward for showing how ridiculous is airport "security." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/n...

A (depressing) American tale. wapo.st/3ZMBnvQ

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, during a visit to Kyiv, confirmed his readiness to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles if he heads the German government after the elections in February 2025. www.holosameryky.com/a/merz-pidtv...

Ah, Eurostar! As in the sub-channel original. Crummy wifi and filthy windows. Always. Plus decaying seat-backs and no holders for drinks. And inane nagging messages on the TV screens. #monopoly

Ahem.... Of course this raises rather starkly two very different issues, one of which is that a gazillion smart folk (including a bunch of my friends) decided to go MAGA; the other is that the MAGA analysis assumes that America ain't great, which is pretty unobservant and, well, unpatriotic.

Well, there’s a story.

One of the fun things about living in Belgium is that many of the locals don't know or care who is "in power," bolstered by the fact that there have been long periods with no-one at all at the helm.

Most admired President or Prime Minster currently in power. Any candidates right now or are we calling the whole thing off?

Haha. Distinctly weird to be revisiting one's Twitter youth.

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"We've spent the last 2 or 3 days talking about what the police are doing, and I wanted to address the question, what did the killer do to make it possible that we're still talking about a massive manhunt?" @cnn.com about my @theatlantic.com essay.

I'm reminded of a flight I took many years back seated beside an increasingly drunk executive of a health insurance company, who spent a couple of hours telling me how they made their money out of denying care, and how bad he felt about it. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

Extraordinary report from the NYT on Iranian evacuation from Syria. This looks like much more than a routine dependents' safety move. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/w...

Today's Brussels delight!

It's remarkable how this pretty basic bit of economics seems lost on otherwise intelligent people. Trump is planning to make a whole lot of stuff much more expensive, especially for poorer Americans. See, Walmart.

Fascinating. www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/f...

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

Apparently I need to see this! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In case you missed it. biographersinternational.org/news/podcast...

That was then, this is now, has to bear quite a bit of weight!

Pretty much! Of course, I wrote a book that touched on the deskilling inherent in higher-level robotics/AI development....