by mmooney | Oct 31, 2025 | The Friday Message
Placebo refers to a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed to provide psychological benefits to patients, often beyond any perceived or actual physiological effects. Placebos are frequently used in control groups during clinical trials for new drugs. I doubt...
by mmooney | Oct 24, 2025 | The Friday Message
I have always been a fan of the Seattle Mariners—long suffering, they had a shot at the World Series. I remember rooting for Ichiro, a diminutive superstar. Ichiro spent 28 years playing Major League Baseball in Japan and the United States. He won nearly every award...
by mmooney | Oct 17, 2025 | The Friday Message
I worked in a Union 76 Service station in Pacific Palisades when I was in college. I left my sheltered existence in Idaho with a friend to find a summer job and a bit of an adventure. I lucked out and got the late shift in the station, pumping gas, changing oil...
by mmooney | Oct 10, 2025 | The Friday Message
n 1908, America’s game got its own theme song. For seven weeks “take me out to the Ball Game” topped the charts. The song has endured through over a century as memorable today as in yesteryear. The song did not become widely played at ballparks until 1934....
by mmooney | Oct 3, 2025 | The Friday Message
As I told a few friends about the importance of vultures the ecosystem, I was asked what do you call a flock of the oft maligned birds of prey. As complex as the animal itself, in flight the vultures are a kettle, on the ground; a commission, venue, or volt, and when...
