I have a new cold. Really. For those keeping score: I became ill with a cold the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (illness number one). The cold was accompanied in the latter stages by a bacterial infection in my throat (illness number two). I took 10 days of an antibiotic (to which it responded well), only to … Read more
Check out Hillary’s soul-warming holiday message. I’d swear this was a joke, but apparently it’s presented without the slightest incursion of a tongue into a cheek. (You can see it below, or on her site here.) Got the message? These are gifts to be bestowed upon you by your benevolent federal government. All we have … Read more
Being sick is such a pain in the ass. Whatever I’ve got responds promptly and unambiguously to antibiotics (using throat pain as an indicator), else I’d think I had mono. There is a baseline, moderate fatigue that is just damned inconvenient. It’s not hit-by-a-bus fatigue like with flu; it’s just enough to sap the spark … Read more