Raconteur Report

Back when I grew up hoping for a jet pack and a flying car someday, this is the kind of stuff NASA was supposed to be working towards. (h...

    Call the ASPCA. Somewhere in Hollywood, there's a pooch who should be submitting a rape kit, because it was well and truly...

What we heard on the internet yesterday: What we  saw in our mind's eye when we heard it: Inside word has it that President Li...

A couple weeks ago, American Mercenary called it quits, and scrubbed his entire blog off the 'net. Now, in perhaps some cosmic restora...

Republican Debate 10/29/15 - Cruz pwns jacktard "moderators" Cruz FTW. As expected. It's long past time to stop th...

Gaffe-A-Matic himself, VP Joe Biden, announced today he's out . By the numbers: 1) Both parties are left with unelectable jack...

From American Mercenary's blog, 5 hours ago: It's been fun. If you want anything grab it before it's gone. And it's gone...

  Gun banners, call your office. Your policies are working exactly as planned.    

I've been working trauma cases professionally since the early 1990s. (Before that was simply happenstance.) And while all trauma is ...

"Where are you?" - Anonymous I'm minding my own business. Chasing down every Ebola story is currently rather pointless. ...

From the  fishwrap  of record: MONROVIA, Liberia — More than a month after Liberia was declared free of Ebola, at least two new...

First, H/T to the always excellent blog of WeaponsMan  , and in particular this post , for inspiring this follow-on riff. Read it first, or...

No word on when Texas will be training the French police on how to respond to these sorts of incidents, but the difference in outcomes there...

    As noted yesterday, Ebola is not, in fact, gone from any of the three most heavily impacted countries in West Africa. In fact, t...

Hi. Nice to be back. Fully and completely. I was going to spend my day off tomorrow coming back to re-visit the entire (and ongoing) ...

    Greetings, visitors and any faithful readers. Endless apologies for the continued delay in adding fresh content. Your patience w...

  Employment has resumed. With roughly four times the amount of grief, annoyance, and general PITA fucktardery as I experienced filli...

Over there someplace --->>> there should be a new addition to the blogroll: Hogwarts' School of Grid-Down Medicine . A...

Today's Lesson: Watch Your Step Fitness model, actor and reality TV star Greg Plitt was fatally struck by a Metrolink train in B...

My vacay was lovely. As will become apparent, I should have stayed there. (If you have the chance for two weeks on Maui, I highly recomm...