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5 days ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
Capabilities that were once the province of only a handful of medical specialists can now be in everyone’s hands, promising care that’s more informed, accessible and responsive to patient needs…— from an op-ed by Michael Botta in The Washington Post, April 22, 2025. Michael Botta, co-founder and president of Sesame, a health-care marketplace, thinks health-care-oriented AI can save lives. For half the price. That would make American health care roughly as affordable as in Europe.
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6 days ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
I would buy American, if I could. I would gladly buy American-made shoes, and American-made TV sets, and American-made frying pans. If such things existed. I would gladly buy ballpoint pens made in America, and electric blankets, and flower pots… if American workers still made those things. But my country stopped making those products long ago. Sure, we still produce certain commodities, in large quantities. Bacon, for one. Soybeans, and corn. Kit Kat bars, and Snickers.
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1 week ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
Reportedly, Colorado may soon become the first state to require warning labels on gas pumps. The warning labels are at the core of House Bill 25-1277, which narrowly passed the Colorado House of Representatives on April 2 and was scheduled to be heard in the Senate’s Transportation & Energy Committee. We can wonder how effective warning labels are. In general. About six months before I was born back in 1964, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service — Luther L.
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1 week ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
Photo: Entrance to Harvard Square, Harvard University. I was raised to cheer for the underdog. But in the ongoing duel between U.S. President Donald Trump and Harvard University, I can’t tell who is the underdog. The Trump administration sent Harvard a letter, explaining how Harvard needs to behave if it expects to continue receiving federal funding. The demands included ‘audits’ of academic programs, along with changes to the University’s governance structure and hiring practices.
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1 week ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
Photo: Singer Katy Perry. NOTE: This was not the suit Ms. Perry wore during her trip into space on Monday. I can hardly wait to hear the song that pop singer Katy Perry has promised to write about her flight into space earlier this week. She made the trip on April 14 with five other females.
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1 week ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
I stole that headline from the American Heritage Dictionary:An Excessive and Often Uncontrollable Flow of WordsIt’s one of the definitions for “logorrhea”. You might know someone who suffers from that condition. Although we are the ones who actually suffer. A psychologist might use that word — logorrhea — to describe a mental disorder, where a person can’t seem to stop talking, to the point where they become incoherent. We’ve probably all known someone like that. Maybe we were even married to them.
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2 weeks ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
Research shows that practically every dimension of life happiness is influenced by the quality of one’s marriage, while divorce is the second most stressful life event one can ever experience…— from ‘The First Lesson of Marriage 101: There Are No Soul Mates’ by Christine Gross-Loh in The Atlantic. I’m mildly interested in the subject of marriage. But only as a topic suitable for academic study. And also, the subject of ‘soul mates’. Back when I was married — how many years ago has it been now?
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2 weeks ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
Last time we went through an economic crisis — and yes, I’m thinking about the COVID crisis — we all suddenly decided that toilet paper was precious. Obviously, we’re going to need to start hoarding again, with these new ‘reciprocal’ tariffs falling into place. What needs to be hoarded? No one ever made an official announcement during COVID, about a pending toilet paper shortage. Toilet paper wasn’t in the national news, initially.
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2 weeks ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday, lifting restrictions on how much water can be used by shower heads, saying his administration would “make America’s showers great again.”— from a story by By Maxine Joselow in The Washington Post, April 9, 2025. Many beautiful things made America great, in the past. Showers were once one of those beautiful things. Immigrants arriving on our shores from faraway countries, or from south of the border, were amazed at our showers.
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2 weeks ago | 
pagosadailypost.com | Louis Cannon
Photo: Economist Paul Krugman, looking a bit uncertain. Listening to the radio yesterday — our local NPR station. Always a dangerous proposition. The hopeful, upbeat stories are as rare, these days, as the Mexican Wolf. (Approximately 140 of them still living the wild, but you probably knew that.)The news commentator was interviewing Paul Krugman, a controversial economist if there ever was one.
