SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 10:55 P.M. ET: 

SHOW OF FORCE – FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER:  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Sunday in a show of force against North Korea following the country's latest intercontinental ballistic missile test. The U.S. also said it conducted a successful test of a missile defense system located in Alaska.  The B-1 bombers were escorted by South Korean fighter jets as they performed a low-pass over an air base near the South Korean capital of Seoul before returning to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the U.S. Pacific Air Forces said in a statement.  The only question is whether anything we do will change the North's behavior.  So far, nothing has.

ANOTHER "EDUCATOR" HEARD FROM – FROM BREITBART:  Jason Osamede Okundaye, Ethnic Minorities Officer for Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, is being investigated after cheering on violent ‘Black Lives Matter’ rioters in an extraordinary anti-white online rant.  “ALL whites people are racist,” tweeted the Cambridge Ethnic Minorities Officer, as rioters protesting the death of alleged drug dealer Rashan Jermaine Charles attacked police and members of the public in Dalston, East London.  “White middle class, white working class, white men, white women, white gays, white children they can ALL geddit [get it],” he declared.  Where would Cambridge, presumably one of the great universities of the world, acquire a genius like this?  And why would it want to?

YIKES!  DID YOU KNOW THIS? – FROM KAISER HEALTH NEWS:    The controversial practice has been standard in many teaching hospitals for decades, its safety and ethics largely unquestioned and its existence unknown to those most affected: people undergoing surgery.  But over the past two years, the issue of overlapping surgery — in which a doctor operates on two patients in different rooms during the same time period — has ignited an impassioned debate in the medical community, attracted scrutiny by the powerful Senate Finance Committee that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, and prompted some hospitals, including the University of Virginia’s, to circumscribe the practice.  Known as “running two rooms” — or double-booked, simultaneous or concurrent surgery — the practice occurs in teaching hospitals where senior attending surgeons delegate trainees — usually residents or fellows — to perform parts of one surgery while the attending surgeon works on a second patient in another operating room. Sometimes senior surgeons aren’t even in the OR and are seeing patients elsewhere.  Okay, next time you have an operation, insist that your surgeon wear a GPS.

July 30, 2017