Among soldiers there’s a slang word for it, “pulped.” It’s used to describe the brain injury sustained from exposure to improvised explosive device blasts. Now there’s a medical acronym for pulped, “CTE” or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. And it’s estimated that one in five US veterans of the wars in Iraq
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Politics, Re-Spun: Boycott the National Headshot League (#NHL)
Before I get into my increasingly radical antipathy towards the NHL and NHLPA and their callous disregard for brain injury risks, I’d like you to spend a few moments watching this gratuitous display of intent to injure at a bantam hockey game in Kelowna last month involving teenagers. It will
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