Daily Archives: 27 Sep 26

“A Disgrace”

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Henry Abraham via Henry David Abraham’s Stuff for Public Consumption:

‘On August 12, 2026, Dr. Jonathan S. Reiner, Professor of Medicine at The George Washington University, wrote a guest essay in the New York Times entitled, “I Was Dick Cheney’s Cardiologist. Trump Has Not Looked Well, and We Should Know Why.” In it he posed a list of questions about President Donald Trump’s medical condition, pointing out unanswered cardiovascular and cognitive concerns, and the absence of any explanation of why he needed an historically unprecedented number of 22 physicians for his May exam. Given that the president has sole command over our nuclear arsenal, Reiner’s essay was timely and important. The White House thought otherwise. A spokesperson, Davis R. Ingle, called the doctor “an ass-hat” who was “a disgrace to the medical profession.”…’

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

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Noah Hawley via The Atlantic:

‘Sitting in the lecture hall, pencils out, listening to a famous chef explain his humanitarian work, it was easy to feel like the solution to the world’s problems lay within our grasp. And yet, looking around at faces I had only ever seen in a magazine or on-screen, I had an unsettling revelation: This is the hubris of accomplishment. To be declared a genius at one thing is to begin to believe you are a genius at everything.

Here we were, 80 individuals with a combined net worth that was greater than a small city’s yet infinitesimal compared with the wealth and dominion of our host. How did he view this exercise—as a first step toward changing the world, or as a performative display of his reach and influence?…’