A Manual for Citizens

"[W]hat to do if Russia invades."

Not Frozen

Niagara Falls, New York, July 1963. This weeks' temperatures caused Niagara Falls to freeze. Hey! A high of 16 degrees isn't that cold. It's two degrees here in Dane County, now, at midday.

"Sanctions invite Putin agression."

Says Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė.

"[W]e are closest neighbors, so we know our neighbor very well."

Depict the Mayor "as the star he really is."

"Emails show Emanuel aides, producers coordinated CNN 'Chicagoland' scenes."

"As a politician, he always benefited from extremely low expectations. As he would say, people constantly misunderestimated him."

George W. Bush paints Putin, and CNN's John King draws a parallel between Bush's presidency and his art.

A Discussion about Ukraine

Ambassadors from the three Baltic States discuss the crisis on CNN.

"Of course, real animals are more difficult to catch."

Target of a zoo's animal-escape drill is a guy wearing a gorilla suit.

"A Utilitarian Coup"

Anderson Cooper discovers "swants."

Clinical Trials and Treatments Out of Reach

Here's an article about drug trials and "compassionate use" of study drugs for terminal patients.

The BRCA gene mutations are in the news a lot these days, but the treatments for people with certain inherited cancers are still a few years away. 

Thanks to my friend Kris for pointing me to the article about Andrea Sloan.

"Regulations restricting the size of dogs people could keep in Chinese cities were introduced following an outbreak of rabies in 2006 in which more than 300 people died."

Large dogs bred for field work in colder climates don't belong in tropical, cramped urban centers.

An Ice-Fishing Hazard

Over 200 Latvians rescued from two ice floes that floated 4 kilometers into the Gulf of Riga.