Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
First, the song of the day. Without love, where would you be now? (na na na now…)
Man, that’s a great one to sing along.
Now for the hunks.
Decent one above the fold.
That’s more like it.
Just hangin’ around.
Birthday boy Craig Ferguson.
Trifecta.
Last, but not least.
Thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week. Y’all have a good day. Prayers for Mini-me and the last exam for this semester.
145 Comments
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Reliable Marriage Advice since March 2009 
morning
Good morning!
wakey wakey
Started watching Shelbie Steele’s “What Killed Michael Brown”.
So far it’s excellent.
Leon mentioned the Grand Solar Minimum on Monday, so I thought I’d share this.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
We’re out of the minimum, could get some flares that would mess with power transmission and communications.
Last night’s derp was a miss/ substitution play. I can’t really fault the guy, he’s on his game every single night.
And, good morning shmoopies.
We are still up to our eyes in work. Pre-recession we need to get all that we can.
laissez les bons temps rouler
We’re def pre recession btw. It’s going to be an interesting ride – late summer and the wheels come off completely.
“interesting”
“the food shortages are going to be real”
This chooch. I bet his handlers didn’t want him to say that but he overheard it somewhere and blurted it out like a parrot.
Seriously guys – What Killed Michael Brown is excellent. Still watching.
Thanks for the post, Roamy!
“The danger of poetic truth is that it traps us into solving the wrong problem” – these guy is a treasure.
this
I think if you showed this movie to young progressives – their head would assplode.
Someone needs to check on Sean, make sure he hasn’t suffered any head injuries.
Final push to get flight hardware out the door today. Pray for Oso.
I’ve watched some reaction videos of black conservatives seeing Thomas Sowell FOR THE FIRST TIME! Jeez, I would think Sowell would be one of the first, as an opponent view. But that’s not today’s school
I wonder if any of them have even heard the name Shelby Steele.
oh looky there, RCP has Oz up by .2. Barnette down by 6.5
Grenell and Hannity will be insufferable. As will Schlichter being mad that not everyone went McCormick.
They likely go all through life being carefully steered away from men like Sowell. We hear about him and buy his books, but the 0bama-as-messiah crowd don’t want black youth learning that there’s any other way to look at the world than entitlement and ingratitude.
Cawthorn out in NC. Target #1 down for the dems.
What is interesting about the movie is that Steele has some really interesting folks he interviews.
He’s got an NAACP guy from st louis who asks what has improved since the riots in Ferguson? Nothing. It has gotten worse. And he’s not talking about racism – he’s talking about the condition of blacks living there.
Steele’s basic premise is that white guilt is a way whites assuage fake guilt they feel for racism – and that basically everything has blossomed out of that. But it’s all nothing but a power grab for whites and blacks. Nothing changes. It is a very interesting movie.
Comment by Jay in Ames on May 18, 2022 8:55 am
Cawthorn out in NC. Target #1 down for the dems.
—–
Jay, he wasn’t a target for the dems, he was a target for the R’s.
He was willing to talk about the DC cesspool and they took him down.
They are motherF8ckers.
I hope he tells all.
Looks pretty obvious to me, but I suppose democrats need that pointed out to them in an obvious manner.
The dems were trying to get him off the ballot by saying he was at Jan 6, on a constitutional one-off. I’d say that was being a target. The R’s just let it happen, because it benefitted them too. Don’t rock the boat!
I’d say it was a bipartisan effort, but really the uniparty attacked a threat.
leon, have you found an adblocker that skirts the adblock detecting software on sites?
I use noscript and ublock origin in chromium and firefox and that mostly gets me through. You have to fiddle with noscript a lot of the time for new sites, but it’s worth it. Brave seems to do a lot of it without additional plugins.
twitter: pushing back against 2000 Mules
They were delivering for family members!
The study deleted those people! These mules visited over 10 drop boxes, and there were hundreds of them! Erickson is a joke, as is the court that threw this out.
Mare will like this meme.
that’s not why the buffalo were killed, it was just plain greed. There was no plan to subjugate.
Leon, as it turns out I’m leaving for my boat in the AM, and will be gone through Monday. I have some stuff that has to be done to the hull before it gets launched next Wednesday.
Subsequent to this I will be gone most weekends of the summer.
If you come this weekend I won’t be there to help you load. If you bring a couple of planks to roll it up into your pickup, I think you could manage it without me.
Of course, if you wanted to wait and do it during the week that would work too.
Are you sure, really sure? If nothing else I’m sure that was a happy coincidence to some.
Understandable, Hotspur. Will you be around on Friday morning? I could head out at like o dark thirty and probably get there around 8am and still be back here in time for afternoon meetings.
I will be leaving tomorrow AM. Then since next Fri is the start of Memorial Day, I will also probably leave on Thu.
I will return next Mon, so we could do it Tue thru Thu next week. I know it’s a bit of a drive for you, and you are welcome to come get it when I am gone. It’s just that I won’t be there to help you lift it. It’s not really al that heavy. HotBride and I unloaded it together when we bought it. It’s just a bit bulky for one person, but the plank idea would work.
possum can help. little kids can be really strong!
Are you sure, really sure?
The US government can’t find it’s ass with both hands. They can’t execute a hidden plan to subjugate a race of people. It was coincidence.
I’d rather have a second pair of hands and be able to say hi for a few if I can. Wednesday morning next week work?
SO life is just one long vacation for Hotspur. That’s what I’m seeing.
Bring fishsticks when you go Leon. HOtspur is off the chardonnay, so you’ll have to woo him with those.
Learned this morning middle brother’s mother-in-law will likely not make it through the day. She’s been ailing for a while apparently and now it’s just winding down. Only met her in person a couple of times but seemed pretty nice. Slightly bummed, rough to go through that.
twitter: Republicans Pounce!
Taylor Lorenz again, but the Ministry of Truth is going away? Probably just underground.
sorry to hear that, Brotim.
Wednesday AM is perfect for me.
Carin, I wouldn’t say life is just one long vacation for me considering that I’ve worked every Saturday since the boat got pulled in October, but I get your point.
Ok, just came across this little gem. I know Lauraw is busy, but would love her perspective. I know it’s long, so skip if you’re not interested –
As many of you know I’ve been hospitalized for almost a month. Here is my side of what I experienced. Stigma and discrimination is alive and well in medicine unfortunately. Here is just some of what happened to me.
I was admitted on 4/23 to @TempleHealth after waking up and not being able to feel or use my lower extremities and experiencing urinary incontinence. it took 3 grown adults to get me in the car and when we arrived at Temple hospital we asked security for a wheelchair and assistance getting in the chair, their response was “he got himself in the car he can get himself out.”
After finally being put in the wheelchair I was brought into the ER to be met by a woman who identified herself as the charge nurse. At the time I couldn’t raise my head (I later found out I had an abscess on my spinal cord which was ready to burst) but the nurse kept screaming at me to pick my head up. I tried several times to call my wife for help but every time I got close to dialing the nurses moved or took my phone to prevent me from calling for help. As I was being pushed down the hall the charge nurse leaned down and whispered in my right ear, “I know what those wounds are from on your legs, I work in Kensington with those people. You’re a fucking junkie snf you need to get up and stop wasting my time. I have to go take care of a quadruple shooting victim.” She then arrived at a room, dumped my motionless body out of the wheelchair onto the floor by tilting it forward and tossed my phone at me and left. I blacked out at some point, but was woken up later by the banging of the MRI machine followed by a neurosurgeon asking me to consent for emergency surgery. He said, “Mr. Kinkle we’re so glad you came in when you did. You are very close to being paralyzed from the neck down. We need to take you to the operating room. After I blacked out again and woke up in the ICU with a cervical collar on.
I spent about 10 days in the ICU. Most of the nurses were excellent, however a few were awful. One nurse withheld my pain meds and didn’t give me my antibiotics, which were ordered every 4 hours. She also purposefully caused my iv lines to infiltrate. Both of them were placed by ultrasound, one by a radiologist in IR.
Over my stay it became apparent that some nurses took issue with my SUD history. They were the ones who withheld my medication. I was on 200mg of OxyContin every 8 hours with 3mg of dilaudid and 45mg IR OxyContin for breakthrough pain. I wasn’t made aware of the prn medications until the 3rd day by my addiction medicine physician, the nursing staff kept this information from me.
One day all of my pain meds were abruptly discontinued and I was switched to 24mg of buprenorphine. It was a horrible transition from a pain perspective and I have been in severe pain ever since, however every person I talk to believes now decreased to 16mg of bupe will control my pain. Sadly, It doesn’t even touch it.
I was called a “drug addict” and “junkie” more times than I can count. Other things nurses said were, “are you going to behave when you go home?” Implying this was my fault and completely missing the mental health aspect of my substance use I spent hours sharing with her. Another nurse justified sticking me dozens of times to find an iv by informing me his false suspicion, “it’s ok to stick you repeatedly because you like needles, you’re an iv drug user.”
The treatment I received at @templehealth was nothing short of abuse and discriminatory. So, after 15 days I left AMA and went right to @pennmedicine thinking I’d get better care.
At Penn I had a PICC placed again and the plan was to go to a rehab for physical therapy and antibiotics. This is because no company in the United States will contract with a hospital to allow a person with a SUD history to be discharged home with a PICC. Because, you know, we are untrustworthy. So, because of my history I am being discriminated against again and being prevented from having my strongest support system with me, my wife and kids, all because of the misguided assumption that I’m untrustworthy.
I’ve also noticed that everything is done at the convenience of everyone except the patient. It doesn’t matter if I’ve been up all night long because the “team” noticed I haven’t had a bowel movement in 3 days so the prescribed senna, colace, milk of magnesia and mag citrate. When PT shows up at 730, I have to stop eating breakfast and try to stop running to the restroom every 10 minutes and rush through the half assed PT regimen so the therapist can check off on the list he did pt with me. It’s a profound and unfunny joke.
This is how I ended up in a skilled nursing facility. PM&R came to my room for an assessment to determine where I would go, rehab, sub acute or SNF. When they came and were ready I was experiencing severe bladder spasms due to my spinal injury. I was tachycardic, sweating, and screaming in agony. My wife was there as a witness. I asked them to come back later when my pain was controlled so they could make an accurate assessment. They agreed. However, they never came back and I was informed they determined I was unable to tolerate 3 hours of PT a day and couldn’t go to a rehab, I was demoted to sub acute st a SNF. To be clear and blunt physical medicine and rehab at the university of Pennsylvania Presbyterian medical center lied about assessing me and forced me to go to an inappropriate facility. A decision that could severely impact my recovery if I am not vigilant about my care. This is how I ended up at a place where the nurses consider placing central line covers under used medicine cups on a filthy tray next to hours old urine sterile or aseptic technique. I can’t see myself staying here very long.
One more thing I need to note, I was visited several times by a CRS at Penn. Now, one of my addiction medicine docs I see regularly is at Penn and she is exceptional (my other AM doc is at temple and he is amazing as well). That said, I had high hopes given the reputation and tweets I see about Penn’s CRS team. However, during the visits I felt the same message was being pushed as treatment centers, 12 steps and god is the way to sobriety. It wasn’t an in your face message, but it was there. One thing he said has been on my mind ever since. While discussing my relapse and the landscape in Philly with fentanyl he said, “yea, it’s only by the grace of god I missed that whole fentanyl thing.” This made me wonder, why is this god he has that’s so pivotal to recovery apparently so gracious to him that he avoided it, but not me who was allowed to almost die in it?
I know it’s all bullshit, but my point is this, addiction medicine and recovery type folks need to stop saying stupid things like this. This type of abstract, religious nonsense is one reason addiction medicine is viewed as a joke by many. I came to Penn hoping science would be paramount in my treatment, and in all other aspects it has, except from the “recovery specialist.” Please people, be mindful of what you say. If I wasn’t confident in what I know this could’ve buried me, it’s that serious. Additionally, we need to lose the spiritual speak as a primarily deployed tactic. I shut down as soon as I hear it. Let’s start with science first and if the individual identifies spiritual/religion as an important part of their life then go there. We will never find success pushing our methods on another.
I’ll try to keep updating what is happening in my recovery, stay tuned.
I got several paragraphs into that before my bullshit detector pegged.
you shouldn’t inject drugs into your spine. and that didn’t happen.
Why are you supporting Putin, Car in?
I can’t believe how unreasonable they are being about not sending a drug addict home with a PICC line.
Folks with a history of substance abuse being considered untrustworthy? Next you’ll tell me the sun tends to rise solely in the East.
Fuck, most of the people who have told me folks with that history are untrustworthy have been FOLKS WITH THAT HISTORY.
No idea about the rest, but I got my doubts.
I sorta find the conclusion interesting – how offended he gets when people mention the 12 step/god approach to beating drug addiction.
1) Your method obviously isn’t working, and
2) you say you want to stick with 100% science? Ok, here’s some cold hard science. Stop abusing drugs. Boom. Done. How’s that working for you?
twitter: not all heroes wear capes
Reminds me of the parrot ordering things off alexa
But he did say in the end that he was expecting SCIENCE to save him.
So basically he’s your typical religious lefty. Everyone else’s god is a myth, but my god – science – is the only true way.
wonder what is on his mask…
Science except the science that advises him to just stop doing drugs.
Because actual science is pretty cut and dry.
twitter: another food distribution plant on fire
But Carin, it’s a “disease”.
Riiiight.
Just like cancer.
Followup to LOINS!
twitter: Nailed It! School board speech
people are getting it. I hope they are in time.
A disease of the spirit to the extent it is, which sadly means Mr. Materialistic Drug Abuser is probably fooked.
Tesla cars are no longer on ESG list
ESG is bullshit, and this should seal that. But it won’t.
Deace saying 45% probability McCormick wins
twitter: Elon weighs in
sure are a lot of cockroaches scurrying around lately, after Elon lit up the lantern, isn’t there?
Car in, sorry, I couldn’t read that whole thing. The Internet has completely ruined my ability to, you know, um, whatever.
This is my pet peeve with AA. It tells people they have a disease, which takes their problem out of their personal responsibility. I can see why they wouldn’t want a person to feel worse about themselves, but it isn’t a fucking disease.
Mental illness? Yes. Disease? No.
There is something to it, because not everyone can become alcoholic, and there are varying degrees of susceptibility, but I don’t find that categorization helpful either.
I give up. There is no way I can eat 200 grams of protein per day.
^^
Just let it be noted that we’re more than likely paying the hundreds of thousands of dollars for that assholes medical services.
I managed and I was a 168# midget.
I left the office to go get a chicken burrito (60 grams of protein), got halfway there, sat down on a bench and realized there’s no way I can manage more food right now.
Leon is just more of a man than I am.
I’m just glad you recognize that.
I’m a short endomorph, though, a big appetite was my only asset as a weight lifter.
I used to have a much bigger appetite. Now I can survive on very little, and I just don’t get very hungry. Someone gave me a bariatric sleeve and didn’t tell me.
This bench is under a tree full of sparrows. I like sparrows.
Way back when I first started my practice I had to take general call, adults and kids. I got roped into draining a few abscesses in IVDA patients. Every single one of them left AMA on the day of or day following surgery.
That story was probably a roughly 50% accurate report of what actually happened.
Eating required amount of protein IS very tricky. I have a very hard time doing it.
There is this ascent water that has 20 g of protein in it, and I can drink that as a recovery drink while I work out.
^^
Just let it be noted that we’re more than likely paying the hundreds of thousands of dollars for that assholes medical services.
While he bitches, complains, and criticizes it the entire time.
twitter: the GOP rep is calling for a nationwide ban on abortions even in case of rape or incest
“If we added the rape or incest exceptions would you vote for it?”
“Reclaiming my time”
Ministry of Truth vs Right Wing Trolls
twitter: Chris Wallace’s show is alive!
https://babylonbee.com/news/with-formula-shortage-more-babies-are-switching-to-whey-protein-powder-getting-swole
“If we added the rape or incest exceptions would you vote for it?”
Not just the question, but her little smirk before hand. “You don’t care about rape exceptions, you twat.”
Had lunch at Billy Sims BBQ…meat sweats are real.
Catherine Glen Foster just kicked that cunt Raskin so hard in the nutz that he’s chewing on the left one right now.
I found meat sweats at a brazilian steak house in Minneapolis
HS, saw that one. I’m ded.
I saw Meat Sweats open for Skinny Puppy back in ’89.
J’ames, We’ve been tempted to try one of our Brazilian steak houses, but have received mixed reviews from our friends.
I’d be nervous about the quality of meat these days, as expensive as beef is now.
i recommend Fogo de Chao. There was one in MN that we went to. Don’t fill up on salad, thats where they get you.
looks like there’s one in Albuquerque
I’d go to any brazilian steak house, though. Pretty sure you can’t get too sick from beef. It’s the chicken that gets ya.
Mike Taylor left the GOP, says it can’t be saved. Someone want to play taps?
miles, mike, at this point, what difference does it make?
so, since we can’t make anyone feel bad about reduced lunch, and breakfast, we will just pay for everybody’s lunch and breakfast, including rich kids.
https://www.dmschools.org/news_release/free-meals-for-all-students-during-the-2022-23-school-year/
Government is stupid, and bring back shame.
It’s like that here, too. School lunch is opt-in and “free”.
We have a Fogo. It smelled really good when we visited the neighboring pizza place. Worth the price?
not for every day, but as a treat yes. very good.
Our schools got in trouble for cheese sammich shaming kids that were behind on their school lunch payments, while providing “Free” lunch 100% not Means tested in certain zip codes. Oso translate “Illegals get free lunch and if you live in a zone with a lot of illegals, your kids get free lunch, too.”
Addicts lie all the time. However he is right in the way we treat addiction is poor, but his criticism in off base. AA and similar programs have a very low success rate (less than 10% if I remember correctly). There are chemical changes to the brain of an addict. It needs to be addressed in a different manner than just try harder. You wouldn’t tell a depressive to just be happy (however that’s tried too with limited success). However I get the sentiment and have been there myself. Also a lot of the drugs used to help addition are addictive too and you just replace one addiction with another which is unhelpful.
However I do agree calling it a disease gives some of them an out in they don’t have to try since they can’t help themselves. That too is unhelpful. It’s a complicated problem.
Busy day today, I see the ministry of truth is now on hold and Mary Poppins has resigned.
Wondering if Mary Poppins will update her Tik Tok video to include the finishing line ” being a moron singing this stupid song gave me halitosis.”
You wouldn’t tell a depressive to just be happy (however that’s tried too with limited success).
Heh. I’ve been on both ends of that error. Life is filled with irony.
“I saw Meat Sweats open for Skinny Puppy back in ’89.”
I got to see them open for Some Temple Pilots. It was a good show.
Bro Tim, how do you deal with it? I’m seriously curious, I’ve never been manic depressive until V passed, am barely able to hold it together on a daily basis now.
^ the one good thing, debatable, that came from the conviction is I can’t have a gun anymore. If I was allowed to, I’d have put it to use weeks ago.
so, since we can’t make anyone feel bad about reduced lunch, and breakfast, we will just pay for everybody’s lunch and breakfast, including rich kids.
Wasn’t childhood obesity one of Michael Obama’s pet grievances?
Yes, that’s why she insisted that schools malnourish poor kids.
Wasn’t childhood obesity one of Michael Obama’s pet grievances?
——–
Heh, memories!
https://legalinsurrection.com/2014/11/teens-gag-on-obama-lunches-tweet-pics-to-thanksmichelleobama/
By “poor” you mean fly over states, not the urban poor within it’s husbands district that he stood on to achieve 8 consecutive years of failure of leadership that he left behind?
Wait, Oprah gained weight, I stand corrected.
LOL, democrat strategist on Google saying it’s on the cusp of AI, “I grew up on Star Trek, Data was my favorite character.”.
Dude, you’re a moron. That wasn’t Star Trek.
^ TNG isn’t Star Trek. It’s Star Trek with pronouns. They’re not the same thing. Convince me otherwise.
AI is a meme. It’s just a bag of tricks that can look clever in limited circumstances.
That said, the AI waifubot is probably right around the corner, but its development will stop not long after it arrives, as all the guys working on it will be done as soon as it’s ‘good enough’.
In some ways I guess I’m like Elon, a bit slow. So meme = mental masturbation, but doesn’t require as many key strokes?
MONKEYPOX !!!
https://nypost.com/2022/05/18/first-case-of-monkeypox-confirmed-in-us-this-year/
A pox on your monkey!
In this case I mean it as Dawkins (who coined the term ‘meme’) meant it. AI is just an idea people are passing around. We’ve invented a lot of techniques that used to be called ‘cybernetics’ (a term highjacked by sci-fi to mean something else entirely), meaning programs that do something approximating what looks like thought, but at no point have we built anything like ‘intelligence’.
Believing that we soon will have artificial ‘minds’ that exceed the ability of the human mind at all things we’d call intelligence is just a transhumanist article of faith. There’s better evidence and testimony for most eucharistic miracles.
It sounds so Monty Python-esque
but at no point have we built anything like ‘intelligence’.
Agree 100%. To build such an apparatus first requires intelligence.
If you’re genuinely interested, there’s a pretty good summary of this in The Myth of Artificial Intelligence that covers how this whole thing got started and what keeps it going.
I studied this stuff in grad school and worked on it professionally a few times, and he’s dead on. There are some clever tricks, and you can stitch a lot of clever tricks together, but you still end up with something fragile, and it’s not intelligent, just a long, long program with a big set of outputs ready for a given set of inputs.
as for my comparison to Elon and being slow, it was a play on the old democrats making a stink about DS2 & Bush2 being stupid, but tricked them into voting for war, so who is really stupid?
so who is really stupid?
Kamala Harris.
“but at no point have we built anything like ‘intelligence’.”
I’ve created intelligence. Four times, in fact. My wife helped.
m is for mustache, oh yeah that’s a winner
Elon musk founded 4chan, weaponized autism
Tucker is downright mean tonight. I love it
Built, Sobek, built.
Unless you and she were making simulacra out in the she-shed.
Top tweets tonight. Jimbro, one of these will be of special interest.
https://directorblue.blogspot.com/2022/05/top-20-tweets-tonight-051822-what-i.html#more
Gorillapox variant is coming.
Get vaccinated!
Murder Gorillapox.
Flesh eating murder gorillapox.
so how bad is monkeypox, since we have 1 case
Alex Jones was right.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/frogs-keep-mating-with-the-wrong-things/ar-AAXnLCy?ocid=BingNews
Pretty sure we need more lockdowns and universal mail-in voting, Jay.
But gay clubs can stay open so the primary risk demographic can spread it.
I don’t do manic. That’s not my burden and it’s not one I want.
Before I was diagnosed with depression I fell into the trap of believing some folks could think your way out of it (I understood some folks just had bad chemistry they were fighting, but not all). I must have been a right prig to those folk…then of course I got the official word in ’18 and the tables were turned.
I will say this, it has aided in my development of some proper humility.
For those of us whose chemistry isn’t the problem…the brain is a learning machine. If it learns bad patterns it gives bad results. If it takes decades to properly work out what the bad patterns were…they get entrenched. You may know they’re there but, help as that does, it takes a lot more. You have to develop strategies and stick to them, and that is not an easy thing. I am still learning and am still very, very bad at working past it. But I am better than I was.
It is frustrating and I still fall into the old loops. But sometimes…I can see the trap and step aside. It gives me hope I might be better with time and practice. Even at my age.
Carin, I can’t see anything wrong with that vignette of that poor fellow in the hospital. It just seems like he is a blameless angel beset on all sides by bad luck and heartless brutes.
Seriously, that’s a substance abuser with an ax to grind because he didn’t get the good drugs no matter what kind of show he put up. I doubt greatly that nurses swore at him and called him names or dumped him on the floor. I do believe he probably put himself on the floor and/or did other harmful or theatrical things to himself in the hospital and then blamed the staff.
Also, nobody gives senna, colace, milk of mag, and mag citrate all together on day 3 of no poop. You give one, wait several hours or overnight for results, then you go to the next most powerful one, wait…etc. You don’t go ahead and put explosives under their butt until days later. Other dramatic exaggerations…”dozens” of IV sticks, etc., that’s a big no-no, if you can’t find a good vessel or get an IV started after a couple tries, you can’t keep poking the patient, you need to escalate it with the doc and get an IV team or another department in there to do it. Protocol depends on the hospital. But dozens…no, massive exaggeration.
Also, since it happened more than once, he probably was deliberately uncooperative with working with PT and the other clinicians and then falsely blamed them/ his bladder/ the shits for him then missing the appointment. I’ve seen people with control issues do this repeatedly. They want to make the clinicians or therapists wait on them, or come back later. It’s a control game. But these staff don’t have that kind of time in the day. You miss them, frequently there is no coming back today. They didn’t really have much time for you in the first place. Stretched to the max.
I do believe the part where nurses didn’t tell him about the extra prn pain meds he had available but didn’t know about. Sometimes after an operation, stuff is more or less automatically prescribed that you know is inappropriate for this kind of situation. So yeah, you don’t tell the patient about all the yummy opioids they have available for the asking, until you can get another doc to reevaluate and check the orders. Notice how he knew every med and the dosage. This patient will simply order the entire cocktail and knock himself out when he has the first opportunity. They are at the point where everybody knows who he is, he’s probably a massively self-centered demanding asshole every single trip (substance abusers are frequently like that), and computerized health records make his efforts to scam providers harder and harder. But the hospital people are bad because THIS time is for real!
Another thing. He writes in a dramatic female voice. High dudgeon. And everybody is so mean to poor little me, an innocent angel. He’s not responsible for anything bad that ever happens to him. And he ‘shuts down’ when he hears all that icky God-talk. Right…the truly disgusting things this guy has very likely done and seen in the course of his addiction, but mention JC and he just can’t EVEN.
This Chris Bray fellow is a favorite now. Love.
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/extremist-describes-water-as-wet?s=r
Darlene excused Ronald’s pretentiousness.
[…] The H2 has Big Boob Friday. And some Rule 5 for the ladies. […]