If one of the important features of the Affordable Care Act is to insure patients against denial of service for pre-existing conditions, should it also then provide service for someone…
Perhaps it is common to every generation to wonder whether or not their society or civilization as they have known it is going to hell. Part of this owes to,…
I hate liver and onions. Why I decided to order it in the dispenser of dysentery I sometimes ate at when I was in grad school in Syracuse has long…
Oh when the saints go marchin’ in Oh Lord I want to be in that number When the saints go marchin’ in Aside from his concern about the “dictatorship of…
Precisely a decade ago I posted the following announcement: 1.1: Jim’s New Website Posted: Mon – October 20, 2003 at 02:33 PM This is being sent to you because you…
We have a tendency—perhaps because we are around only so briefly—to characterize history in “ages”; time Before Christ, or the Dark Ages, the Enlightenment, The Modern Era. There were indeed,…
Preamble: I sometimes think that the Bible has it wrong with that Adam’s rib story in Genesis. It actually went like this: God first created Woman; then he borrowed her…
I am a realist. I don’t mean that in a personal sense, because I realize that I am also in many respects also a “romantic.” But, since I define being…
“My parents had a good reason for taking me to the movies all the time, because I had been sick with asthma since I was three years old and I…
They say “everybody loves a parade,” but, regrettably, it seems a dark feature of human nature, that more people would prefer a disaster (as audience, not victim). We are, it…