Why do we spend so much time discussing the color of the Band-Aid and so little time discussing the depth of the wound? (A metaphor: The wound is healthcare; the Band-Aid is health insurance.) We discuss the details of competing health care plans from Republicans and Democrats, but we spend almost no time on the […]
Read More →Trump didn’t do it on purpose. It’s not his “great again” calling card, and it’s not a belief that my country could be trampled by a nonexistent army of rogue immigrants. Reason 1: Taking achievements for granted It’s become clear that decade after decade and generation after generation, the United States of America traveled the […]
Read More →Fake news – aka big fat sinkin’ lies – has been around forever, and there’s a word for it: Fiction. Fiction is okay. We like fiction. The problem isn’t made-up stories; it’s not even the reason people write it, though the whole Russian thing is intriguing. The major problem is the people who share it. […]
Read More →Human beings protect other human beings, in no small part because we taking-care-of people will one day be we-need-help people. But does a take-care-of-others rule have limits? It appears it does, and it seems to be a slight disagreement over the word “neighbor.” Circa 1970 with the Viet Nam war playing in the background, I […]
Read More →Things change. My record player gave way to an 8-track tape player circa 1971; my 8-tracks gave way to cassettes circa 1977. In the early 1990s, I switched to CDs and cursed the fact that my entire music library had to be replaced again. Now, thanks to the Internet, I don’t need a music player […]
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