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Category Archives: In The News
Water, Water, Everywhere, Or Not.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
Flunking Health 101
If you recall, there was a time when schools taught home ec and there was this odd activity called physical education, or at least recess where somebody threw a dodge ball at your head and you had to run and … Continue reading
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The Age Myth
A couple of years ago The New Yorker wrote a piece asking why genius is so inextricably tied up with precocity, citing many examples, among them Mozart, T.S. Elliot and Orson Welles. There are many more, and we know most … Continue reading
Glamping
It’s camping with glamour. I read about it in Southern Living. Don’t give me that look. I read everything. So back to “Glamping.”
Click, Click. Goodbye.
With every click online, we’re giving a piece of ourselves away. This sentence just cost me a little chunk of my humanity. The next few will bleed me further. It is happening to you too. Soon we’ll only be measured … Continue reading
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I Write Like
Jeff Johnson sent me a website I have not seen before. He is like a Google bot when it comes to rooting around the Web. It was featured on Holy Kow, Guy Kawasaki’s content aggregation site. The site purports to … Continue reading
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The Cost of War Versus the Cost of Health
It is hard to find anyone who agrees on what health care reform will cost, but the best estimate I’ve seen is $940 billion over ten years. Remember that number while I go to war. World War II cost the … Continue reading
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Crime Pays. Death Pays. Fraud Pays Even Better.
The government sent more than $180 million in checks to dead people over the last three years according to the White House Office of Management and Budget. We also paid 14,000 felons in jail or running from the law. Add … Continue reading
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