I’ve decided that perhaps I should include the weekly Miami Herald articles I write in Dolittler’s burgeoning cache. After all, my contract says I own them and you all have such discriminating taste that I’m sure you’d appreciate them.

Do be aware, however, that these are written for a top-25 newspaper, which means that lots of different people read them. Consequently, they need to be made...

At first I thought it was something of a hoax, a story cooked up by some obscure natural health magazine’s over-zealous reporters: “Dog rabies is gone!—a thing of the past,” it claims. Yeah, right.

Yet it’s seemingly true. ABC news on September 7th reported the CDC’s findings that canine rabies is off the radar in the US. That means the dog-specific form of the rabies virus appears to have...