President Obama’s one on one interview with Steve Croft of 60 Minutes last night (October 11, 2015) was notable on a couple of counts (at least to me).It deals with Mr.…
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No wonder there has been such a furor over the ACA—it perhaps presages a full single-payer government health care system—one lucrative area that the private sector would love to…
During my hiatus from DCJ as my websites have been undergoing an updating and facelift I actually considered whether I wanted to return to writing essays at all. A lot…
.President Obama got some great reviews for his eulogy for the Black victims of the Charleston massacre a couple of days ago. Segments went, as the saying goes these days,…
How my country achieved greatness through racism and brutality Yesterday, I heard on television a former American soccer player and now commentator on the FIFA Women’s World Cup remark that…
Since (and before) Michael Brown was gunned down by officer Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri and subsequent uses of police deadly force such that a black person is killed by police…
An email comes in from a reader of these pages. It’s about Rochester, NY, a town we both grew up in. I’m always a little curious about Rochester, but I…
I don’t know whether I’m going to get death threats or a parade in my honor for taking up this subject. But it has been rattling around in my brain…
It’s perhaps a lame verbal pun. But at least it gives you a heads-up on where I might be going with this piece and you can jump off the bus…
Best to lead of with a basic premise: our bodies are like very complex versions of those chemistry sets kids used to get as Christmas or birthday presents when I…