CDC: 12 Month-ending Provisional Number and Percent Change of Drug Overdose Deaths
It should be a bigger story that drug overdose deaths are down 40%.
Three reasons come to mind:
That’s all supply-side. There may be demand-side reasons as well. Everyone should be in favor of this.
I’m not good at sleeping in, so early this morning, I moved out to the couch. Sparky came over to stand guard.
I thanked him for his service.
Sparky is so vigilant. I suggested that maybe the windows and doors would be enough to keep the chipmunks from invading.
When it’s chilly, we like to sit outside, wrapped up in a light blanket. Sparky wants to watch the night for invaders. I like to cover us with the blanket, and tell him that we’re in a tent. Sparky plays along until I get it out of my system.
Good Lord. Madonna is two years away from getting her 20 year pin from the AARP. A 68 year-old shouldn’t be going out in public dressed like a whore.
Madonna doesn’t need to flounce around in a red hat, but it’s not cool for her to gloat about her deal with the devil.
Sparkly hasn’t gotten a post in a while, so here he is just before lying down to sleep.
Since he is a free man with agency, Sparky can sleep where ever he wants. I like that he’s got a favorite spot on the couch, with a couple of pillows.
Sparky often looks somber and introspective at bedtime. He might be gloomy because we don’t goof around when we go out for the last whiz of the night. I don’t want him to think it’s play time. Or, maybe it’s because he can get night terrors, so isn’t eager to go back to the land of Nod. Or he doesn’t like the blue light.
Sparky is probably just hungry.
I always take a minute to sit with Sparky to let him know that he is a good boy.
Whoever names the generations, they aren’t very good at it. Gen X, Gen Z or Gen Alpha. What the hell does that mean? Let’s name generations by the technology they started with.
I am Generation Punch Card. The last step should be a tiny cloud. After that, we will probably get Generation Cortical Implant.
Bill Gates thinks that he is a Big Brain, who can fix the world if we let him. If Gates is predicting vague doom from AI, then the threat is to him, not us.
I’m being repressed.
I went to the board of elections site to get a sample ballot, and the link in English was broken. Only the Mexican ballot was available.
They are making their move. The grand replacement is complete.
And he lives in my yard.
A black squirrel has moved in. His name is Blade.
Blade has nuts, so I am assuming a gender.
It only works because the mouse doesn’t understand why the cheese is free.
I saw this bit of wisdom on Twitter/X, so pass it along as Twisdom.
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