Tag: Here be dragons

• Biding the Pelting of this Pitiless Storm

  Hubris –the extreme arrogance that was so offensive to the old Greek gods that they reacted with punishment and an exile from grace- is that what this is? I’m not sure anymore… It’s not, perhaps, so obvious as the vaulting ambitions of a Macbeth or the arrogance of a Caesar, nor even the overweening pride…

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  November 16, 2016

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  antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, azithromycin, Caesarian sections, Cassandra, cefazolin, Here be dragons, hubris, Jeremiad, Julius Caesar, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, Oedipus Rex, post-op infections, pride, prophylactic antibiotics, Tita and colleagues, unintended consequences

• Are We There Yet?

  There are some things you just have to get right -or else. But, or else what..?  Continuing exposure, even to the most egregious injustices risks dulling the senses; eliciting not indignant shouts but shrugs, excuses not action. Accommodation. There are benefits that accrue to adaptation, of course –if one lives next to a pulp mill,…

  gozzter

  December 31, 2014

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  accommodation, adaptation, Canadian parliamentarians, China’s new draft law, cultural folkways, cultural relativism, domestic abuse, domestic violence, folkways, Here be dragons, physical abuse, sexual harassment