9PM EST -- Episode 154, January 14, 2024

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—Sorting out professional and public confusion around the difference between bipolar disorder (manic depression) and borderline personality disorder; transgenderism as the purest expression of borderline.

—Update on the Burlington shooting that grabbed national headlines. A white man shot (but did not kill) three young men from Gaza. Vermont and national officials called it a right wing "hate crime." Guess what? Yep. The shooter was a leftist who appeared to support Hamas, and who had a history of mental illness.

—Infrastructure is breaking down, and it's not just the potholes and lamp posts (though it is those). Join Josh for a trip through the unique software hell that is "applying for health insurance online through the state's exchange."