Monkeypox is now a global health emergency.

Fetterman says he “feels good” in first post-stroke interview.

These are the forty-seven Republicans who voted to codify the same sex marriage law, along with Dem unanimity in the House.

The most underrated ‘70s soul brutha, Michael Henderson, dies. RIP.

France has long been on my to-do radar. Hopefully, 2023 will be the year my husband and I finally take part. Reading stories like this only whets my appetite.

North America is projected to be the biggest contributor to the Parisian tourism market this summer, according to the city’s government, with booking levels almost back to pre-pandemic 2019 levels. “The Americans are doing the job,” said Frédéric Hocquard, Paris deputy mayor for tourism.

With the ongoing barrage of failed potential anti-Alzheimer monoclonal antibody trials, it’s back to basics: primary prevention.

New Omicron subvariant discovered in China.

Is monkeypox now a global emergency?

The response in most European countries has been to focus on outreach to at-risk communities, contact tracing and isolation for known monkeypox cases. That may change if the WHO, which first sounded the alarm about monkeypox infections in countries where the virus is not endemic in May, increases the threat level of the outbreak.

Drake. Another one?

On the second of six hearings detailing the 1/6 attack on democracy, the House committee will detail the origins of Big Lie movement in the former POTUS’s ranks.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Sunday they have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The committee announced that Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, is among the witnesses scheduled to testify at a hearing Monday that focuses on Trump’s effort to spread his lies about a stolen election. Stepien was subpoenaed for his public testimony.

As the hearings unfold, Rep. Adam Schiff said he would like the department to “investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump.” Schiff, D-Calif., who also leads the House Intelligence Committee, said that ”there are certain actions, parts of these different lines of effort to overturn the election that I don’t see evidence the Justice Department is investigating.”

The members of the committee can’t state anything they can’t prove.

CDC: Over 80M wasted COVID-19 vaccination doses so far.

Well, it finally appears we have a reason for U.S. senate Dem candidate John Fetterman’s need for an AICD.

His doctor added that he saw Fetterman in a follow-up visit on Thursday, and told the lieutenant governor that while A-fib caused his stroke, “he also has a condition called cardiomyopathy, which is why doctors in Lancaster chose to implant the device.”

Doesn’t sound as though Fetterman was the most compliant of patients.

The Fetterman campaign had said previously that the pacemaker was helping regulate his atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm also known as A-fib, which led to his stroke in May. But outside doctors said that defibrilators are not used to treat A-fib, and questioned if he had another heart condition.

Ramesh Chandra, Fetterman’s cardiologist, said in the letter that Fetterman did not follow doctor’s orders after the 2017 appointment. Chandra also diagnosed Fetterman with atrial fibrillation at the time.

“I had prescribed medications along with improved diet and exercise and asked him to follow up again in the following months. Instead, I did not see him again until yesterday. John did not go to any doctor for 5 years and did not continue taking his medications.”

I understand that “full disclosure” in politics is an all-or-none concept, that any info release on a candidate’s health that falls short undermines a popular political candidate’s trust among voters — is sacrosanct. But, FFS, now that we have cleared up the guy’s health status — all that matters now is that he follows doctor’s orders so that he can get in and occupy the open PA senate seat.

I just love this story about one of my all-time faves, Anita Baker.

The Thriller 40th anniversary onslaught has begun.

Gear up for an interesting travel season.

Bobby Rydell was excellent in motion picture adaptation of “Bye Bye Birdie”. RIP.

WTF is with Bill Maher? I used to Iike him. Now, he’s a total prick.

Hillary Cliniton tests positive for COVID.

The solution to the looming physician crisis?

…So, apparently, these irregular verbs are pretty commonly used in French, of course. So, this is an area that requires nothing but the strictest memorization on all fronts. Not just the present tense. These verbs are: aller, apprendre, avoir, connaitre, croire, devenir, devoir, dire, etre, falloir, dormir, faire, entendre, lire, mettre, obtenir, ouvir, peindre, voir, savior, and pouvoir. (There are at leat 80 others, but they follow the aforementioned verbs in systematic conjugation patterns based upon suffix.) Um, yeah.

Cutting my teeth on the French “3rd group verbs” (the irregular verbs) and their present tense conjugations. Slog

Johnny “Bookman” Brown dies.

Having some difficulty thinking of all the ways the French preposition de is used … both in adjective/descriptions, and in creating the present participle with a verb (such as finir … following that verb with an infinitive action). Sheesh!