Transgender Laws are Nothing New: The Palpable Hypocrisy Presented by the LGBT Rights Movement

The laws inhibiting access for adequate gender-affirming care for transgender children and adults are amoral, and an affront to the patient-doctor relationship. They insert politicians into a conversation that should be between the doctor and patient, following established evidence-based medical guidance. That last sentence there is key. I recently read another inflammatory article about a

I Don’t have to Get Married to Justify My Existence

There are some spaces in which every adult is allowed to be. For example, restaurants, resorts, and the like. Now, some places limit their spaces to say, only adults: adults-only resorts, for example. The idea is that adults want to vacation sometimes without listening to screaming toddlers next to them while they relax by the

If “Millennials are lazy,” then why are “Boomers” dying in poverty?

Constantly, we hear about “entitled millennials” who want to own homes and “won’t work hard enough” to meet their goals. Goals of home ownership, starting a family, and other basic milestones most so-called “boomers” accomplished while working entry-level jobs. Now, they turn around and tell us that jobs that are far more advanced than the

Hotels Are Not Less Risky than AirBNB

I recently had to travel back home, three hours south in Florida, to see my doctors. I do this twice a year. I stayed in an AirBNB, as there are only a handful of hotels in my small town, and most AirBNBs are single-family-homes. Many are relatively new and nice. The people who live in

America’s Obesity Epidemic has a Simple Solution, and you Don’t have to Pay Noom a Kidney for It

I was just reading an article about Noom—the “weight loss app” that claims to use “psychology” to “change the way [you] think about food.” It claims to not be a diet. But, as the article said, it is. I found this out myself when I tried to use the app myself—not to lose weight, but

Put your Damn Earbuds in: The Newest Rude Trend I’ve Noticed in Cities

With the advent of “vines” and short videos on Facebook, I’ve noticed an increase in an insanely annoying, ultra-rude behavior that has become so common, it almost seems as if people think it’s socially acceptable: watching such videos on smartphones, in public, without headphones. The volume is typically set to full-blast. And this is something

The Real Reason We Don’t Advocate for Prison Reform

There is a­­ basic principle underlying our prison system which is not touched upon in law school. It certainly wasn’t discussed at my own. The criminal law professor discussed concepts of deterrence, vengeance, “an eye for an eye.” What wasn’t discussed was the principle of “other,” or the way people who are not imprisoned in

Newsflash, Fundie Christian Conservatives: Your Abortion Ban Comes with 4 More Years of Left-Wing Lunacy

I should start by clarifying that I am a constitutional conservative, which, for those of you who don’t know, is basically a libertarian without the weird anti-semitic sentiment or isolationism. It means I believe in tiny, tiny government restricted to the roles defined strictly in the Constitution of the United States. It means I believe

How the “Opiate Epidemic” is Destroying the Lives of Innocent Patients

The “Opiate Epidemic” is a phrase that probably strikes some sort of thought, image, or emotion in the mind of any and every American at this point. The media has now spent the past several years railing on the producers of Oxycodone as if they literally shoved their pills down the throats of patients, all

Massage Therapy: Its Role in Chronic Pain Management, and Why Insurance Companies Should Cover LMTs

As all of my regular readers likely know, I have severe chronic pain. Back in the Fall of last year (2021), I started regularly seeing a massage therapist that worked at the rec center at my university. It was a discounted-cost service, but was not run by students, which is an unusual combination. Ironically, due