The modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, with no shots fired, no blood spilled and way more booty. The two of them…
Healthcare
Letting Men Handle the Abortion Issue
Legislatures (both national and state), courts (ditto for the Supreme Court) and the national conversation on abortion is mostly left…
An Interesting Take on American Health Care
An article in the Guardian by Jessa Crispin caught my eye recently, where she complains that she can never leave…
Will the Last Bee in the Hive Please Turn Out the Lights
Monsanto was recently sold to the Germans at Bayer and its name changed, no doubt to end-run its toxic history.…
When the Pandemic is Finally Through With Us
A recent Seth Godin blog reads as follows: Is everything going to be okay? That depends. If…
Not Why, But Why Not Coronavirus?
I’m no longer a young man and so I often see things from more of a historic than immediate…
Language Matters—Now as Never Before
You have to be pretty old to remember “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never…
Why Aren’t the Sacklers in Jail, Facing Murder Charges?
It’s a fair question. 210,000 Americans (and counting) are dead from an opioid epidemic in which Purdue Pharmaceutical was…
While I Wasn’t Looking, Someone Privatized My Senator
It’s no surprise our private health care system is by far the most expensive system in the developed world, anywhere…
Obama’s Zombie Cat—Healthcare
You may have read the story of Bart, the cat whose owner found him in a puddle of blood,…