Myths About Marriage and The Need to Talk
This headline in MSN jumped out at me — “How To Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About it” — because I recently talked with a couple about needing to talk to each other less. That’s right — to make their relationship work better, talk less. The corollary for their situation was: do more. Talk less, [...]
The Other ‘N’ Word
If the more hysterical wing had to find something to say besides, “It’s just like the Nazis.” they might have to come up with some real arguments. That would be a real debate, which is what we need instead of name-calling.
Winston Churchill and Socialized Medicine
Disease must be attacked, whether it occurs in the poorest or the richest man or woman simply on the ground that it is the enemy; and it must be attacked just in the same way as the fire brigade will give its full assistance to the humblest cottage as readily as to the most important mansion.
Slow-Motion Katrina
The problem with depending on this kind of clinic, as admirable as the volunteer effort is, is that there is not adequate follow-up. The clinic can help people with immediate needs, and give referrals, but often it opens a can of worms.
The ‘D’ Word
Be a part of the flock if you want. You know what they do to sheep. Getting fleeced is the least of it.
District 9
But I’ll go ahead and gripe about it now. A rocket to Mars would take years to get there. It wouldn’t be running on a tank of high-test and internal combustion engines. So when the alien spaceship fired up its engines I didn’t get excited. I was kind of let down.
It’s the Gay’s Fault
One of the biggest financial backers of California’s Proposition 8 initiative banning same-sex marriage is divorcing his wife of 43 years. It must have been all those gay beams coming at him.
Bicycling Past ‘Whole Paycheck’
I was hooked on convenience, but this news prompts me to do what I knew was right anyway–shop local, shop small and keep our Rhode Island businesses open so that we have alternatives to the big national chains.
In Honor of Evelyn Coke, Caretaker to the Elderly
The uninsured can be anyone. Your neighbor who was laid off, his daughter who is not covered yet by her job, the small business owner and her employees, the artist, the home health aide. We urgently need to reform our health care system so that everyone can get basic health care. Every day we wait costs lives.
He Fought the Donuts, and the Donuts Won
Pensacola is now minus a doctor and donuts rule.
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