Archive for 2025

OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes.

WELL, GOOD: Up to 13% of Dementia Cases May Actually Be a Misdiagnosed Treatable Condition.

Years ago, my doc told me that she had an old woman in whose family thought she was demented. She looked in the woman’s ears and they were jam-packed with wax. 45 minutes of wax removal later (“you wouldn’t believe that all that would fit in there!”) and she was perfectly lucid.

TRUMP’S CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IS BAAACCCKKKK!!!! It was called “Schedule F” late in Trump’s first Oval Office go-round, but the much-revised and improved version released late Friday in his second term is known as “Schedule Policy/Careers,” or SPC.

This could be the most significant step forward in managing the federal bureaucracy since President Ronald Reagan eliminated 100,000 civil service jobs and fired the striking Air Traffic Controllers. Details in my latest Substack column here.

IT DOES SEEM THAT WAY: