Sunday Sermon from the Swamp
June 1, 2025
Good morning!
This week I’m diving deep into the rabbit hole of healthcare quackery. How did we go from trusting doctors with decades of training to hanging on every word of some Instagram influencer hawking miracle cures? The MAGA megaphone brigade has turned medical advice into a game of telephone, and somehow we’re all supposed to nod along.
Monday brings fresh chapters of my true-crime memoir “Father and Son” — years in the making, and I’m asking for your thoughts.
Tuesday delivers more of my novel “A Killing at Pine Needle Farm.” All week I’ll be pondering that question: Is there really such a thing as fiction?
Speaking of killing, Senator Joni Ernst delivered a chilling performance at her town hall, chirping with the warmth of a frozen fish stick that “we’re all going to die” when constituents dared suggest Medicaid cuts might kill people. Then in response, she posted a TikTok “apology” with all the sincerity of a used car salesman, sighing with relief she hadn’t mentioned the tooth…
