Asylum for Guan Heng

Send a message to your Congressman; this is about a hero who has not been made a martyr yet. Guan Heng, a citizen journalist who dared report on China’s concentration camps for Uyghurs, is in danger of being deported from the United States to China, or to Uganda, which would probably rendition him to China.

Especially if you happen to be represented by a Republican, this is a time to show that Americans from both red and blue districts and states can unite in sympathy for a heroic truth-teller.

Colonoscopy Ahead

I am now scheduled for a colonoscopy in January; since I had one ten years ago, I pretty much know what to expect. When I saw the gastroenterologist yesterday, the nurse took my blood pressure, and it was much higher than normal. I didn’t feel consciously nervous, but my body may have been reacting to the prospect of another medical procedure involving general anesthesia and a small but not zero risk of either iatrogenic injury or discovering a cancer.