at one point, i think we were up to nine or ten binders full of just tips and it was everything from i saw a strange person in the park that day to my neighbor has got issues. police released another sketch of a possible suspect. a man in his 20s wearing mirrored sunglasses. that tip led to the man who drove this van. he was familiar with the park. they took a good hard look at him. but dead end. there were many dead ends that year. and in the years that followed. the police collected all of the evidence they could, but really there was only so much they could do. the science of dna was in its infancy. and eventually, the murders of jenni and michella went cold. it changed the way people thought of other people.
again and again, she came here. stood under the ancient canopy. walked the damp, narrow paths to the places the killer used to hide what he had done as if looking once more after all these years would tell her something. as if the dense undergrowth would part and finally reveal the name. it s so peaceful here. it s not the kind of place you would associate with violent crime, that s for sure. no. no. nothing like this has ever happened at this park before. lindsey wait was just 11 years old. that terrible summer in tacoma, washington. i just remember that it was really scary to me as a young
it was summer 1986. the sun-kissed morning. a few miles from the park where they had found michella s body, jenni, a blonde, blue eyed dynamo. if there was a bat she had it in her hand. jenni was 13. she had a brand-new schwinn bicycle. she was preparing for an imminent bike tour. she wanted to master the bike. she didn t want anybody to be waiting for her. she wanted to have the stamina
i m simply saying to 3,000 black and hispanic students, it is about time that you become productive. i don t think that you are working nearly up to your intellectual potential. and tonight, one of those lives he touched remembering him, saying, it was because of his principalship that i m a proud graduate of eastside high school. one of the best experiences of my life. thank you for watching tonight. i m tom llamas. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow. stay safe. good night.
2020 and the pandemic: A year of (some) physicians behaving badly
Looking back on 2020, if there’s one thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s that crises reveal character. Unfortunately, the character of too many physicians has been found wanting, as they spent 2020 denying the pandemic, peddling quack cures, or spreading misinformation in the service of defying public health interventions. What can be done?
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As I sat down yesterday to write this post, it suddenly occurred to me: This will be my last post of 2020. Out of curiosity, I scrolled back to the very first post I published in 2020 and noticed that it was a post about acupuncture for chronic pain (and, of course, how it doesn’t work).