Archive for 2020

TESTOSTERONE IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEART: Hormone therapy for prostate cancer may raise heart risks. “Long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) increased the risk of heart-related death nearly fourfold in a group of prostate cancer patients, and also caused their heart fitness to decrease, researchers found.”

HOWIE CARR: Pam Kelley, a Kennedy casualty, passes away.

For putting Pam Kelley in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, the family-retainer judge fined Joe Kennedy $100.

That’s the Kennedy M.O. They all live their lives like Tom and Daisy Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby.”

“They were careless people,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. “They smashed up things and creatures and retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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OUT: I AM STRONG, I AM INVINCIBLE. IN: BOYS HAVE COOTIES! Duke sorority council bans events with male groups. “According to a post on the Duke Panhellenic Association’s Instagram page, the Panhellenic Council voted to ban mixers with all-male organizations to focus on women’s empowerment. The post states that all-male organizations cause concern amongst other groups due to gender dynamics and the objectification of women.”

NOW OUT: Kurt Schlichter’s latest Kelly Turnbull book, Crisis.