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She is a reminder that the paranoia about COVID is grossly disproportionate to the risks associated with COVID. When the Black Death arrived in Avignon, France, a courageous doctor named Guy de Chauliac stayed to care for the sick even as many of his fellow physicians fled the city. He wrote that the plague “was so contagious...that one man caught it from another not just when living nearby but simply by looking at him.... Father would not visit son, nor son, father; charity was dead, and hope prostrate.” The death rate for bubonic plague rose to 50%. The mortality rate...

Levi’s CEO Chip Bergh admitted on CNN Business’ Markets Now that he still hasn’t washed his now decade-old pair of jeans. And he doesn’t plan to, either. He also slammed the old wives’ tale about freezing your jeans to preserve the color and shape. “If it’s the pair I’m thinking of, he will spot treat them or worst case hand wash if needed. But never in the washing machine,” a Levi’s spokesperson said.

The Hippie movement was the most controversial and influential of modern times. Free love, the peace movement, drugs, Eastern religions and communes are explored. Meet the figures whose words and actions inspired it and destroyed it. See how the vibrations from that era are still resonating today in almost every aspect of American life, from the clothes we wear, to the Personal Computer and the Internet. Finally, historic footage, stills and period graphics are interwoven with expert commentary and eyewitness testimony.

What a great time. Madame Dufarge and I were on our way to do a punch list on an apartment building we manage, which led us by the Bangor Post Office. There, much to our surprise, an organized anti-war/anti-Bush rally was in full swing. Microphones, cameras, drums, for god's sake!About 130/150 (quick count) lunatics and hypocrites with signs were being whipped into a zombie like trance by some of the most marginal speakers in the area. I immediately yelled, "Viva Geoge Bush!" Dufarge suggested free entertainment was at hand, so we found a parking spot and walked back to the...