I try not to write too much about current, ephemeral events, choosing rather to write about the human condition, which hardly ever changes. Sometimes current events illustrate the unchanging human condition, so I suppose when these overlap, I must indulge myself. It is not surprising that Justin Bieber is going bad. I don’t wish him…
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers John Milton, Paradise Lost Milton is credited with the first use of the word pandemonium. He may have even invented it. It is a wonderful word, full of musical lilt even if it is pregnant with a wicked recklessness. We don’t expect a serene tranquility in…
Both are controversial subjects in these perilous times we live in. We are being destroyed by climate change, which will eventually get us if our bad diets don’t get us first. We should beware. I am not a denier of climate change, nor even a denier of man-made global warming, though I admit to being…
When public school education is finally dead, will we still need a Department of Education? Will the Department of Justice appoint a special prosecutor to go after those who killed it? Thanks to the January 8, 2014, “Dear Colleague” letter, you may as well kiss public school education goodbye…it will have been killed from an…
Do not mistake the voice of a single London alehouse as the voice of the kingdom. Jonathan Swift Who? Me? Would I do that? Certainly the alehouse I do all my business in, the one that has all my friends, the one I choose because those in it are the most like me, those with…
It wasn’t much, really. Just a few fireworks and champagne glasses with champagne for the grownups and cola for the girls and a clock set forward two hours so that it read midnight for the doubly-excited Livi and Maggie. I’m not sure if Maggie even understands the concept of the new year, but she understood…
I have written before on the inefficiency of the check-in process at my local hospital for a CT scan or even a simple x-ray. Hemosapien had scheduled one for me for yesterday to have a look at these swollen lymph nodes. Since my blood numbers all looked good, and they didn’t seem nearly as swollen…
The joyful spirit of Christmas is over today. I can get back to my normal, petulant, shallow self. Maybe not. I hope not. I best not. Everything we write can’t be profound. Everything can’t be thrilling. Everything can’t be brimming with inspiration. That’s too bad. It would be much easier if it were, much easier…
The President has worked hard to sell the ACA to folks that don’t want it, particularly those who aren’t really interested in paying higher than actuarial prices for insurance they don’t particularly need to underwrite those who do. This wealth transfer system is not very attractive. But the President has worked so hard to sell…
In an effort to undo all the damage of cancelled policies the administration “strongly encouraged” insurers to comply with requests that these substandard insurance policies be reinstated. Many of those “bad-apple” insurers having spent much time and money to comply with the ACA, which is, as we have been reminded so many times, “the law…
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