juvenile humor

January 23rd is designated National Pie Day. I don't know why we need one, since pie is universally accepted as the perfect food, but at the very least, it provides an opportunity to learn all about pie: history, physics, and weaponization.

Here’s the opening of an email from one of our followers. Somehow, stuff like this always ends up in my inbox. Probably a coincidence.

Are you ready for some REALLY big news?

A number of you are now reading a really interesting article by Chuck "Chuckie" Dinerstein, our beloved director of medicine, about how beets might be useful in lowering your blood pressure.

(Revised from an article first published in March, 2020) Riding the New York City subway is a rather gruesome experience on a good day. And there is no such thing as a good day. They are all bad or worse.

Where to start here? The possibilities are endless. There is some real (and strange) medicine in this article as well as a treasure trove of chances to allow me to express my dominant juvenile humor allele. Let's start there.

Well, are you? I'm not kidding. This is real, not satire. 

Cilantro is one of those restaurant-type things – a substance that we could easily survive without but has nonetheless carved out an oversized place on US menus since the late 20th century. 

Disclaimer: Some most all of you may probably will will find some most all of this article potentially vulgar. Don't blame me. Yuks matter. 

The website International Days has somehow determined that today, April