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When You Need A Win
Posted on April 20, 2017 5 Comments
I’ve been in a funk lately. I’ve been grumpy and short-fused with people I care a lot about. I’ve been even worse to people I don’t care for. The reason for this is simple, and it’s something that I’ve seen coming every year right around this time. I’m not going to go into details of […]
Face It, You Think You Know Better Than Me
Posted on April 3, 2017 16 Comments
There’s this person, we’ll call her “Ginny,”* who is an ardently anti-vaccine. She has multiple blogs, multiple social media accounts, participates in protests (traveling far and wide, money for the family be damned), and even thinks she leads a political party. Ginny has no medical or scientific training, per se. The closest she’s gotten is […]
Why We Need “Essential Health Benefits” on Every Health Insurance Plan
Posted on March 25, 2017 4 Comments
My wife and I were in San Francisco last week, and we caught a Lyft ride to have dinner with friends. As we rode, the driver started chatting with us. He asked us what we were doing there, and we told him we were there for a conference on mental health counseling. He then told […]
Religious Intellectual Dishonesty
Posted on March 12, 2017
The story goes that I got in trouble with the priest when I was a kid because I asked too many questions. My inquiring mind wanted to know the context of biblical sayings, not just the quotes themselves. That carried on into my teenage years, when I sat in the back of the church and […]
Is this REALLY the hill you want to die on?
Posted on March 5, 2017 1 Comment
When I was in high school, there was this tough ex-military type who taught us world history. He was a really cool teacher because he seemed very interested in the subject matter. When the intervention in Somalia started, he and I had a very good discussion on why Somalia was not so much about humanitarian […]
Red Dawn
Posted on March 3, 2017
I’m not much of a morning person, but waking up early to see this was worth it. Look at those primary colors!
The Things That Will Follow You Forever
Posted on March 2, 2017
Oh, the things I’ve done. I’m incredibly lucky that the internet wasn’t around when I was a teenager. Otherwise, I’m sure there would be at least one viral video of me ________ the _______ from the _________ with my __________ as everyone _________ around me. (Redacted for your own peace of mind.) Today, however, the internet […]
So You Want to Work in Professional Public Health?
Posted on February 27, 2017 1 Comment
Excerpt: Just a few pointers on what to do as you get ready to go into work as a professional in public health.
A Day of Protesting in Baltimore
Posted on February 17, 2017 1 Comment
A group of mostly Latin American immigrants held a protest in Baltimore on Thursday, February 16, 2017, to protest the current executive actions on immigration. I took some pictures.
Take A Better Selfie
Posted on February 16, 2017 2 Comments
Ah, selfies. You either love them or hate them. You either think people are very bane and self-centered for taking them, or you appreciate that someone is document themselves being somewhere. Whatever your side on this, and if you enjoy photography, you know that there are good selfies and there are bad selfies. The typical […]
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