Monday, March 10, 2025
In 2000, the United States declared that measles was eliminated from this country. Why? Vaccinations. Simple. Of course, all it takes is a pandemic to convince some people that they shouldn’t do something because they think the government is trying to make them. (Spoiler: it wasn’t.) As of 9 March, measles cases have been reported in at least 12 states, mostly in western Texas and New Mexico. Two people have died.
Sunday, March 9, 2025
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge “WASHINGTON (AP) — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge diversity, equity and inclusion content, according to a database obtained by The Associated Press.
Saturday, March 8, 2025
I’ve been doing this on and off for a few years. I started in 2020 when the pandemic hit and moved to another site when we seemed to be past that. Keeping up with it started to become a grind, though. I had locked myself into a structured daily format that was getting tiresome to maintain. I was also frustrated with the software I was using; it was too cumbersome. I tried to keep going, but I kept falling behind and telling myself I would catch up.