FPT: On hand washing in hospitals: Some years ago I read that getting American doctors to wash their hands between patients was enough of a problem in pediatric wards that some hospitals had enlisted… (View Post)

I was charmed by Gillian Sturgeon's "cast assumptions with no evidence", and spent more time than I should have trying to figure out what she meant. Perhaps "cast aspersions"… (View Post)

Our news folks almost never mention, during the US celebration of St. Patrick's Day, that St. Patrick was English, and that his first visit to Ireland was not entirely voluntary. Which is too ba… (View Post)

Here's the Washington Post article that our "friend" keeps quoting: source$: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/13/ukraine-casualties-pessimism-ammunition-shortage/ I think t… (View Post)

Kle4 - You are right about the change in common usage for "decimated" -- but I think the original meaning is so interesting, and so precise, that I wouldn't use the word, as it commonl… (View Post)