Throughout the annals of medicine, a stark reality has been a prevailing pattern: doctors are merely human, after all. They sometimes dispensed bad advice. Doctors do have, though, one vital tool in their armamentarium: education over years of long hours, hard work and hands-on learning. So while any parade of social media gurus can blather on about breastfeeding do’s and ...
Red flags can mean the start of battle, wildfire risk, or dangerous swimming conditions. One of our favorites: the bright red Bravo flag of the International Code of Signals1 means you’re carrying explosives. In divorce, red flags fly up for all sorts of reasons. Here are the biggest red flags that could be fluttering in your future. Your Wife Hasn’t Hired ...
Deep inside Goddard Space Flight Center, not too far from the calm waters of Virginia Beach, spacecraft destined for Mars and beyond are assembled for liftoff. Many of the components have bright red tags on them reading, “Remove Before Launch.” For probes journeying outward to the far reaches of our solar system, those flag tags are one-way decisions. A planetary ...
Teenage male otters deliberately swim into the “triangle of death.” Teenage gazelles deliberately taunt predators like lions and cheetahs, says the BBC1. Fathers of Virginia teenagers, take heart: our species is not alone in dealing with reckless and impulsive behavior from our offspring who are not quite children, but hardly adults. In a split or a divorce with custody issues, ...
Regular readers of these entries will notice a frequent flippancy. Sometimes Virginia law deserves a tweak on the nose, a banana peel in its path. Not today. Some Virginia fathers are faced with real crises that compound divorce, children and addiction in a terrible trio of torment. While divorce is stressful, struggling with child support or child custody for an ...
Virginia has 173 police departments, according to USA Cops1 (yes, we counted). Can you count on them to be the heavy when you need a savior to enforce a child custody agreement? Should you take matters into your own hands? What should you do when the mother of your children refuses to give your kids to you for a visit? ...
Justice is blind in sculptor Raymond Kaskey’s 1994 piece1 in front of the Albert V Bryan Federal District Courthouse in Alexandria. Justice is also a woman. Her sex is owed to her ancient history, say experts quoted in the New York Times2, with the Egyptian goddess Maat weighing humans’ souls on her scales. Her blindfold is a more recent addition, ...
To make nitroglycerin without blowing yourself up, take a tip from Alfred Nobel (yes, that Nobel, of the Nobel Prizes). He invented dynamite but also devised the one-legged stool for workers producing nitroglycerin. Do not take our word for it; NobelPrize.org has the full story1. Think about it: you cannot fall asleep sitting on a one-legged stool. It is inherently ...
From 13 October 1775 to today, the U.S. Navy has defended the seas, patrolled hostile waters, and served as the principal hauler of all the other branches—their equipment, their weapons, and their personnel. Its official website tallies 325,673 active duty men and women serving on, above, next to, and under the water. Some of those Navy men, like men anywhere, ...