Catastrophe

This is horrifying, and how it’s being handled by “the officials” is downright infuriating.  It’s almost as if a 2022 movie adaptation of the 1985 Don DeLillo novel “White Noise.” is playing out in real life.  Because it IS happening in real life. In that story, a train derails and spills chemicals, causing an “airborne…

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26 Billion Dollars

In what’s being described as a “game-changer,” three major drug distributors and the pharmaceutical behemoth Johnson & Johnson have agreed to a $26 billion (with a “B”) settlement with states to resolve thousands of lawsuits over the country’s opioid crisis, officials announced Wednesday. Multiple states, cities, and counties have accused four companies, including Cardinal Health,…

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