I think I have enlarged-iPhoneitis (at least that’s what I’m calling it).
About two months ago I reluctantly traded up from an iPhone SE to an iPhone 16E. The 16E is more powerful, but it also is slightly larger in length (+.33”), width (+.17”) and depth (+0.1”).
Now, those dimensions do not seem overwhelmingly different. But to my hand, they must, as my left abductor pollicis brevis (the tendon on the outer portion on the palm-side of the hand) hurts after holding my iPhone. Gilda, as well, incurred this injury when she traded up to a larger iPhone months before I did.
I wonder how many other iPhone users have silently suffered the same fate.
Calling All Billionaires: Donald Trump stripped $500 million from public broadcasting’s budget. Are there no multi-billionaires with enough intelligence and heart willing to step up and donate sufficient funds to keep information broadcast lifelines alive?
Yes, I know each year another infusion of cash might be needed until the crisis surrounding public broadcasting is resolved. But the need is great and immediate (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/politics/public-broadcasting-cuts.html?smid=url-share).
All Talk, No Action: Trumpsters in Congress are all talk, no action.
Sure they privately lament Donald Trump’s imposing his will on them, castrating their power of the purse, defanging their right to advise and consent appointments, but when it comes time to vote for or against Trump they act like the eunuchs he has turned them into. Sound bites come from a mouth with no teeth.
Four doctors in the Senate had a chance to block Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services. They accepted his word he wouldn’t disrupt health care, that he wouldn’t mess with inoculations.
They are all Republicans: John Barrasso (WY), an orthopedic surgeon; Bill Cassidy (LA), a gastroenterologist and hepatologist; Roger Marshall (KS), an obstetrician/gynecologist; and Rand Paul )KY), an ophthalmologist.
The American Medical Association should strip them of their professional credentials. They violated the most basic tenet of a physician—do no harm. By confirming Kennedy they have endangered millions.
Unequal Justice: The Supreme Court has given Trump virtual carte blanche to disregard congressionally approved programs, to scrap them as part of his executive authority. But when President Joe Biden tried to relieve millions from their onerous college tuition debt the Supremes said he could not override a congressional program.
How blatantly biased can they be? Shame on the conservative majority for bending their knee to Trump and making a mockery of constitutional law.
No Shows: Hispanic Heritage Month began September 15 and runs through October 15. By one estimate, 20% of Americans are Latino.
In years past, activities throughout the United States heralded contributions of people and communities with Latino origins. This year, however, fear of ICE raids has dampened and in some cases cancelled programs in Illinois, the Carolinas, Louisiana and Indiana.
Latinos are afraid to go to events. Even citizens and people with valid residency papers have been swept up in indiscriminate ICE actions.
How sad, considering Hispanic/Latino populations settled the southwest, California and Florida decades before Europeans came to America.
***No A.I. .was used in the writing and editing of this post. The only intelligence employed was my own.***
