A couple days ago I saw a report on the TV news saying that elephants are being phased out of the Ringling circus. The reason was because so many people and animal welfare groups have protested their abusive treatment at the hands of trainers ( Read more... )

I spent most of today at the hospital.  My sister drove me to what I’d thought would be a couple hours of a CT scan-guided liver biopsy.  She picked me up at 8 A.M. as I was supposed to be there at 8:30.  I wasn’t actually wheeled into the CT scan room until 10 o’clock.  The female nurse and two male doctors took turns playing “good doc, bad doc.” ( Read more... )