Jonathan Cowan

Michael Jordan isn’t as skilled as today’s players.

2023: Corona ended 2026: Hantavirus

Another team coming back from Down 3-1 Yet You don’t see many teams 3PEAT Let alone TWICE!

"MJ never won a playoff series without Pippen"

@random49108 @TheJordanTruth Pippen didn’t even make the all star team the year of the Bulls first championship.

@TheJordanTruth MJ couldn’t get to the finals until he had another top 20 player on his team. LeBron got there without one. MJ stans criticize lebron for not beating teams with a lot more talent than his but excuze it when it happens to MJ. LeBron carried his shit teams further than MJ did.

They’re really like this

And the crowd goes mild.

No hate to the chainsmokers… but why not bring a current artist for the college kids at the final four?

Troubling

Would you rather spend $200 billion to bomb Iran or…? A: give every teacher in America a $62,500 bonus B: provide downpayment assistance for 20 million young families C: build 1,300 rural hospitals

@MattWalshBlog I align with this 100%. My wife and I are planning a family compound to attempt to keep our kids and their future families nearby! This is a literal 180 from what I thought when I was in my twenties.

I used to be entirely in the camp that said you should kick your kids out at 18 and force them to live independently and make their own way in the world. I don’t feel that way at all anymore. I want all my kids to live with us until they get married. Even after they’re married, if they want to live on our property, or close by, my wife and I would love that. The important thing is to teach your kids responsibility, which we’re doing. They need to contribute and help around the house, which all of our kids do from a very young age. Provided you aren’t raising ungrateful useless moochers, why kick them out? Why drive them away from your family home? I don’t see the point in it anymore. I actually like my kids and like being around them. Maybe they’ll all end up scattered to the wind. But I’d prefer to keep the family together. Why wouldn’t I?

Not too late to give the Bears their comp picks.

Do I hate Doctors? No. Do I have a reason to despise a few? Yes I do. My oldest son was born in 2010, and right from the start he had what looked like classic failure-to-thrive symptoms. As the months went on, he wasn't growing and his constipation became extreme, and we ended up having to give him regular laxatives just to get things moving at all. We made trip after trip to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Scottish Rite, trying to get some real answers. Every single time, the doctors told us the same thing: he was just being retentive. They said some kids are prone to holding their bowel movements on purpose until everything gets impacted. But I knew my son better than anyone. I knew he wasn’t doing that on purpose. Something was genuinely wrong, and it was hurting him. I’m the kind of person who dives deep when something matters, so I started living in the medical literature. By the time he was 18 months old, I’d read enough to be convinced he had Hirschsprung’s disease. It’s a congenital condition where the distal part of the colon is missing the ganglion cells that allow the bowel to relax and push stool through properly. It’s not extremely common, but it’s far from unheard of (about 1 in 5,000 births) and the symptoms lined up perfectly: delayed meconium passage early on, severe chronic constipation, failure to thrive, abdominal distension, the whole litany of symptoms. I asked for a rectal biopsy, which is the definitive way to confirm it. It’s a suction biopsy, relatively quick and low-risk, even in young kids and is often done bedside or with light sedation, with very low complication rates. They refused and said it was too invasive. Meanwhile, they were manually disimpacting him under sedation anyway, so the idea that a biopsy was somehow crossing some big line never made sense to me. We ended up in the emergency room eleven times because the constipation would get so bad he’d need urgent help. Eleven times we were told it was just him holding his stool voluntarily. The risk of colonic perforation was becoming very real as things dragged on. I’m a lawyer by training, and I’ve spent years qualifying and disqualifying expert witnesses in pharmaceutical and medical malpractice cases. I know how to get up to speed on technical subjects fast when I have to. I wasn’t pretending to be a doctor or trying to throw my weight around, I was just explaining that I could research and understand complex material when the stakes were this high. My one patient was my son, and every bit of my energy went into figuring out what was wrong with him and getting him fixed. We hit brick wall after brick wall. I’d heard stories about doctors missing diagnoses, families insisting they were right all along, and then the doctor getting defensive or cold when proven wrong. I always thought those stories were exaggerated. Until they weren’t. When he was five, we were back at Children’s Hospital of Atlanta, and the pediatrician attending him told me again it wasn’t Hirschsprung’s and that I needed to prepare myself for something much worse. Still no biopsy. The very next ER visit, that same physician finally agreed to do it. The biopsy came back positive for classic Hirschsprung’s disease: aganglionic segment in the distal colon, no ganglion cells, no proper relaxation or peristalsis, leading to functional obstruction, chronic impaction, and megacolon building up behind it. They scheduled surgery: a pull-through procedure to remove the non-functional distal portion of the colon. Since then, he’s had zero problems. No issues at all. When it’s caught and treated, most kids do great long-term. Hirschsprung’s is precisely that: the absence of those enteric nerve cells in the distal bowel means the affected segment stays contracted, stool can’t pass normally, water gets over-absorbed, everything hardens, and the child ends up in chronic misery with risk of serious complications if ignored. A lot of the disappointment I feel toward parts of the medical community, and a lot of what I write about here, comes straight from this experience. Being dismissed as a layman, told to let the experts handle it while my child suffered for years? That sticks with you. I wasn’t trying to play doctor. I was a parent who had spent countless hours researching because no one else seemed willing to consider what I was saying. I’ll never forgive the team at CHOA for repeatedly ignoring my request for what is a straightforward, low-risk test and forcing us to watch him go through that pain and agony for the better part of five years when an earlier diagnosis and surgery could have spared him all of it. The final insult: once the biopsy confirmed Hirschsprung’s, that same physician who had argued with me for years refused to even speak to me afterward. Completely ghosted me. Fuck that guy. It was exactly the kind of petty, arrogant behavior I’d heard about from other families and never fully believed until I lived it. There is a real God complex in too much of medicine, and it needs to stop. Patients and their families aren’t coming in blind or stupid. When someone walks into an office with questions from their own reading or even from AI tools, I get why that’s frustrating for doctors, but taking a couple of minutes to actually listen could change outcomes without derailing anyone’s schedule. I don’t despise doctors as a group. But I do hate when they act like they know everything and can’t be questioned, even when the evidence is right in front of them. We all know medicine isn’t perfect, and pretending otherwise just breeds resentment. Stay relentless when it comes to your people. Trust the system, but verify hard, especially when it’s you or a loved one.

Should the US get involved in Israel’s war against Iran?

So, let me get this right. UK has arrested the brother of the King. Norwegians have charged their former Prime Minister with corruption. Even UAE has punished Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. But the United States has not punished single client of Epstein. Our government is compromised.

Pretty simple #Bears fans The Organization will blame the State The State will blame the Organization Do me a favor and look at how many businesses have left Illinois over the last few years That should give you a clear answer (it’s the State)

Yeah, well he was their dealer. He had something they all wanted.

BREAKING: A detransitioned woman who received a "gender affirming" double mastectomy at the age of 16 just received a $2 million medical malpractice judgment from a jury in New York state. The dam just broke.

This looks legit

The #Bears should raise hell with the league office over not getting the comp picks here. Cunningham will be answering to an individual with zero front office experience. Doesn't seem to align with the heart of the rule.