I Have a Smart Phone, Am I a Doctor?

I love puzzles, all of 'em, any of 'em that, um, have, have been in front of me over all these years. Puzzles such as crosswords, trivia quizzes, cryptograms, word search, etc. And so does Stephen obviously. He started out the show with the solution to a Jumble: "Crisp Bee Urine." I checked it out and he is right. I need to start doing more Jumbles. But on to more important matters.

Republican leaders, under the guidance of Reince Priebus, created the Growth & Opportunity Project to study why they lost the last election. It has also been called an autopsy, even by Reince Priebus. It's nearly 100 pages long, so I won't type all of it here. Just go here if you want to read it. Part of the report includes bringing in some Republican celebrities. And perhaps the most important part for the GOP to win back American voters is to, well I'll quote the report here: "Republican leaders should participate in and actively prepare for interviews with The Daily Show, The Colbert Report..."

Well, we can look forward to some interesting interviews coming up soon, starting with, maybe, Reince Priebus on The Colbert Report.

Big news this week is that the Supreme Court is hearing two cases involving Marriage Equality. Stephen clued us in on a recent poll that shows "... 58 percent of Americans [think] it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to get married ..."

This brought Stephen to another installment of The Word. Narcicitizenship. We learned that Senator Rob Portman of Ohio has announced his support of same-sex marriage after learning his son was gay. That won't change what Saxby Chambliss thinks: "I'm not gay, so I'm not going to marry one."

Stephen Colbert is Watching Your Kids. That's a good thing. He scours the news stories and finds out what you need to be appalled by. Up in Vancouver, Canada there is an exhibit, "Tattoos & Scrimshaw - the Art of the Sailor." Some of the tattoos might be considered a little bit naughty, so this is why Stephen has alerted us to this exhibit. Consider that these sailors spent months at sea with nothing to do but work hard and make this art form. So, what can you expect?

Do you ever wish you could see inside your friend's ear or know what your heartbeat is? Well, you have a smart phone, right? Stephen's guest last night was Dr. Eric Topol, Director of Scripps Translational Science Institute talking about his latest book, "The Creative Destruction of Medicine - How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care."

We got to see that Stephen's heart is perfect. We got to see what Dick Tracy would have worn on his wrist if he had wanted to know what his heart rate and oxygen saturation was. Modern devices can easily monitor a patient without the need to be in the doctor's office. The devices can even detect in advance if a patient will be having a heart attack in the future. Best part of the interview was that we got to see inside Stephen's head and see his ear drum. Glad to say, his ear is getting better. Stephen highlighted one use for the Smart Phone that I'm pretty sure we are not going to be seeing in the future. (You put your Smart Phone where?????)