On a related note about cold weather cheesecake, the ones that I made in December in mason jars, vacuum sealed, sous vided at a fairly high temp for a couple hours, and left in the back of the fridge (I ignored them in favor of a similarly made creme brulee and a fairly new and tasty commercially available low carb…

A lot of the HBO movies of the 90s and early 00s were extremely difficult to find until pretty recently.  If you missed it in the first year or two it’s entirely possible you’d never see them, let alone have heard of them.

My favorite role of his was an obscure one: a psychiatrist who profiled and once caught eventually used his report to break down the Soviet Union’s most prolific serial killer, Andrei Chikatilo, in 1995's Citizen X.

I binged Babylon Berlin’s third season.

It’s a site that has been vetted by some pretty reputable MDs and the 0% fatality rate to date for pedes under 10 has been confirmed by a JAMA article which states the same thing, but if you’ve got better sources I’m all ears.

This is also the general comment you’ll hear from many ER docs. Their intern year ends up being even more terrible than their peers, since it’s not just the workload but also because they’re getting exposed to nearly every germ on the planet.

I was actually just talking about this with a crit care friend who has a 2 year old.

Pentagon-backed poll conducted by the Palm Center

Eh, that’s usually how servicemembers and veterans are also used on G/O (and in fairness, other outlets too) - their inclusion is solely a matter of the blogger making a point about something else, and then they’re just supposed to fade away. God forbid if anyone should bring up something like the suicide rate among…

Oddly enough, it was World War I’s requirement for gas masks that caused the then-decades long trendiness of beards to go the way of the dodo bird, so it’d probably be fitting if another trend gets chopped off for medical reasons too.

Aunt Mar is anxious and doesn’t know how to control it.

Yeesh. That sounds terrible.

I watched Washington and generally liked it.

This one is not nearly as bad as yours or most of the others on this thread (I’ve had a few of those too), but your story is similar enough to remind me of it.

The Z drugs are hypnotics and can indeed cause hallucinations, which is probably where the ‘accident’ comes in. More importantly, they get geometrically more potent when mixed with other CNS depressants like alcohol or opioids - to the point where they’re a major component in unintentional deaths from respiratory…

Stephen King can write all he wants about Maine - and I’ll admit Downeasters can be a little different - but some of the strangest people I’ve ever encountered have been from Central and Western Michigan, not to mention Yoopers.

As I said above, I’m pretty sure it was in the Hill or Politico, possibly the Post. Currently on mobile so can’t really get past their respective paywalls without a bunch of effort right now, but try searching there if you’re interested in tracking it down.

“Where I think I made the biggest mistake was not setting those boundaries from the very beginning.”

For those wanting the story of the family that found it in their backyard.

Polk is a fascinating figure, and ‘icily competent’ is about as good a way to describe him as I’ve seen. One teacher of mine cracked something that’s probably accurate: he may very well be the only president who actually accomplished his campaign promises, like them or not.