I Feel The Earth Move
The press limits and fixates its reporting of earthquakes to measurements on the Richter scale. They toss us a number, usually projected at the epicenter of a target behind them, and we take their...
View ArticleHealth Care and the Gorilla in the Mix
There’s an 800 pound rabid gorilla on the loose sodomizing everyone in its path, and our genius representatives are at each other’s throats arguing about who should pay for the lube.
View ArticleThe Fallen
In October of 2017, I had a vision that Chief of staff John Kelly took a walk through Arlington Cemetery. To the haunting sound of a bugler playing Taps, he stepped among and then beyond the stones of...
View ArticleCowards Revisited
In the wake of the tragic cowardly attacks in NYC on Tuesday (10.31.2017), I have this vision of ISIS leaders monitoring American news outlets and once again gleefully shaking their heads with a...
View ArticleAppendix A: An Appendectomy’s Bottom Line
The doctor on call for my June 29 appendectomy happened to be a proctologist, one of the many random details that came rushing at me as my gurney careened toward the operating room. In the 15 minute...
View ArticleLeap Before You Look, The “Great” Tax Compromise of 2017
First pants. Then shoes. The wisdom of this core principle has successfully guided dressing practices since the dawn of pants and enjoys the rare distinction of almost complete bipartisan support. It’s...
View ArticleThe Silence of Friends
Each year on MLK day, I take a moment to read and watch excerpts from Dr. King. My usual m.o. is to provide a few handy links to his “I Have A Dream” speech, a dream made all the more poignant today by...
View ArticleMemorial Day and The Cost of Freedom
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Ronald Reagan This Memorial Day, I am reminded of something my father used to say to honor this weekend. “Don’t take your freedom...
View ArticleMeasles and Waldorf Education: Caught In The Crossfire
As summer 2019 was just beginning to stretch its legs, The New York Times and the New York Magazine took several potshots at Waldorf Education and The Green Meadow Waldorf School here in the writhing...
View ArticleI’m NOT Voting
I’m back. I’ve been off WordPress for some time, working on a book (completion date December 2022). Given the importance of these midterms, I wanted to offer a few thoughts and a last minute plea to...
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