GETTING PERSONAL
I suffer from cluster headaches. If you google "cluster headaches," you'll a feel for what I endure. About six weeks ago my neurologist & I reduced my amytriptalene, a medicine used to control these headaches. I hadn't had a cluster headache in over two years.Bad mistake. I almost immediately started getting headaches again. At first they were limited to one or two per day. More recently I have been getting as many as 3-4 every day.
My neurologist has put me on verapamil to help control the headaches. And he put me on prednisone to break the current cycle. When I get a headache, the only thing that seems to work is sumpatriptan nose spray. Now I'm down to my last nose spray, which has me feeling very, very anxious. My neurologist wrote me another prescription for them, but it won't be filled until later today. Like I said, I'm feeling very, very anxious.
TRENDING
"STUDY: Flushing toilets spreads coronavirus" Drudge Report, 6/17DISCRIMINATION
"In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress took the unprecedented step of inserting federal anti-discrimination law into purely private employment decisions. It did so to address an urgent national crisis: the long shadow of state-backed racial discrimination. A mischievous opponent of the bill added “sex” to the list of forbidden bases for discrimination. Nobody at the time would have thought that the term “sex” meant “sexual orientation” or “gender identity at odds with biological sex,” yet the Supreme Court, in Bostock v. Clayton County, said that it now does.
"To begin with, this is an unhealthy way to make law in a democracy. The law is now read to mean something different in 2020 from what even the most liberal Justices would have said in 1964. Congress for years has been debating bills to amend the statute to cover these topics; the Court just did its work for it, and without any of the compromises or conscience protections that legislators typically debate. We understand what the Court’s liberal justices were up to, but a decent respect for democratic lawmaking should have cautioned Justice Gorsuch and Chief Justice Roberts against going down this path." The Editors, National Review Online, 6/16
SOCIAL DISTANCING
"Many of the same officials who were most zealous in locking down their states and cities instantly made an exception for Black Lives Matter protests. Their rigidity became laxity in a blink of an eye. Their metric for reopening wasn’t the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines or any other public-health measure but the “wokeness” of the activity in question.
"Visiting the deathbed of a loved one with COVID-19? Absolutely not. Having a proper funeral? No way. Gathering more than about ten people at a graveside? No one should be allowed to put the public at risk in such a way.
"Bringing thousands of strangers to march together for hours in spontaneous, disorderly groups? Thank you for your commitment to positive change.
"Attending a church service? Well, maybe in a couple of months.
"Holding a struggle session with religious trappings where people confess their racism and vow to work to defund the police? Please, let’s have more." Rich Lowry, NRO, 6/16
"Either coronavirus is spread easily at outdoor events, and the marchers put their neighbors and themselves in great danger, or it is not, and most of the draconian rules dictating outdoor social distancing during the shutdowns — the closing of parks, funerals, weddings, summer camps, etc. — were unnecessary and probably unhealthy. Either elected officials have helped facilitate a second wave, or they have been enforcing useless diktats . . . Whether Black Lives Matter protests were precarious is yet to be seen. The astonishing hypocrisy and lawlessness of elected officials, on the other hand, make it clear that lockdowns are subjectively enforced by politicians whose devotion to science is predicated on circumstance." David Harsanyi, NRO, 6/16
CHAZ
"Outlets and commentators across the political spectrum have tended to paint CHAZ as exactly what they want it to be. Many on the left have romanticized it, ignoring the ample evidence that undercuts their view. Many on the right continue today to associate CHAZ with the violence that created it days ago, when the danger it poses has clearly subsided somewhat since then. The reality isn’t as neat: CHAZ is at times a street fair and at other times a social-justice workshop, with an unhealthy dose of violence and intimidation mixed in." Jason Rantz, NRO, 6/16
DEFUNDING POLICE
"NBA legend Charles Barkley slammed calls to “defund the police” as a measure that would disproportionately affect communities of color, saying police reform to “weed out the bad cops” is the better strategy after several cities announced budget cuts to their police departments.
"Speaking Monday on ESPN’s morning show, Get Up, Barkley argued that “we just need police reform, because we need police." Tobias Hoonhout, NRO 6/17
TOTALITARIAN PURIFICATION
"This second model of governance is promoted by the political left today. In this view, diversity of viewpoint cannot be allowed; unity of viewpoint in all things is the predicate for all serious change. Once the group has been purified, change will require only the snap of a finger. No more gridlock; no more conversation. The collective can be activated quickly and powerfully. This second model of governance is totalitarian in nature, and it is toward that model we are now moving as a society. Politically, those who deny that the collective ought to have the power to override individual rights must be punished; culturally, they must be exiled. They must be deemed unworthy. To stand up for individual rights in this climate means to be labeled a defender of privilege. To deny the systemic evil of the United States means to betray your moral unworthiness.
"The great irony is that the second model of unity -- the totalitarian purification rituals we watch before us -- will never achieve unity. It will achieve further division, as more and more people fall short of ideological purity, or refuse to bow before the ideological demands of the perpetual revolutionaries. We could agree to live with one another, as individuals under the broader rubric of rights. If we don't, we won't be living with one another at all." Ben Shapiro, Townhall 6/17
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