Ken's Comments

Here are my three predictions of what will happen after Hurricane Michael is done and people are assessing the aftermath. 1. There will be great damage, power outages all over, some loss of life, some people injured. 2. The damage,injuries and deaths will not be as great after Michael as they were in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hit that island.  Plus power will be restored relatively quickly, certainly people will not be lacking power a year afterwards as is true in Puerto Rico. 3. People will say the reason things are better in Florida after Micheal than in Puerto Rico after Maria is because the population is predominantly white and President Donald Trump is a racist. To the people who say that the fact that the local officials in Florida were prepared while the Puerto Rico local officials were not has nothing to do with it. The fact that State officials in Florida were prepared while the territorial officials in Puerto Rico were not has nothing to do with it. Th...

Recently the Supreme Court voted to strike down a Texas law requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at hospitals.  It's funny, I thought making abortion legal was about protecting the health of women - guess not. Remember when Joan Rivers died?  Right after that, Nancy Snyderman, at the time the Chief Medical Editor for NBC News, made the observation that it is important for people to see physicians with admitting privileges to hospitals when having outpatient surgery performed.  The context of the comment was that Ms. Rivers was undergoing what was thought to be a simple procedure in a doctor's office.  When things went wrong, the doctor - because he had admitting privileges - was able to immediately get Ms. Rivers admitted to a hospital.  Unfortunately, as events turned out, the hospital was not able to save Ms. Rivers. Here we have a Texas law that says abortion doctors must have admitting privileges to perform abortions and t...