Such a Handsome Lad

 

4014 Big Boy 9/30/2025

The Union Pacific has added some nifty smoke screens. Purists, clutch your pearls.

Contrast

A Canadian naval vessel as compared to a US Navy vessel.

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Clue: Rust

Autism

Seems RFK Jr is pushing the idea Tylenol, taken by pregnant mothers, is linked to autism. What is linked to autism, among many other factors, is illness while pregnant. Might, among other remedies, might pregnant women take to relieve symptoms? Tylen

As parents with a autistic toddler, we belonged to a monthly support group moderated by a psychiatrist. He had a special needs child. One comment he made stayed with me fifty years later. He said the difference between a retarded child and an autistic child was the educational level of the parents. If the label, retarded, were still used for all development disabilities, has the overall rate of retardation changed over the years?

AI Overview

Using the outdated and offensive term "retardation" is inappropriate

. The correct term is intellectual disability (ID). The apparent "level" of ID has changed significantly over the past 50 years due to evolving diagnostic criteria, improved public health, and shifts in societal trends. 

I support RFK Jr’s efforts to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable.  His problem, as I see it, is his only tool is a hammer and he sees every problem as a nail.

Blog comments

Reluctantly,  I am now deleting blog comments that are off topic with no link to the poster.  For ten or so years, none of my posts every received more than 200 views and just a handful of on topic comments. Now each post receives 3,000 ‘views’ and many off topic comments.

In no way are my scribbles on par with LL, Old AFSarge, Old NFO, BRM, LSP and others. My conclusion is someone’s AI is targeting my blog. Do I care? Not much, but it irritates me.

One of many things that irritate me – clickbait

MSN is one of many offenders. The headline, “Major auto parts supplier bankrupt”, prompts me to click on, and some talking head starts some drawn out monologue. Nowhere is the name of the auto parts supplier. I click off. Same thing with YouTube channels. Get to the point , then I will listen to your analysis. Otherwise, I click off.

As always, YMMV