The Sound of One Man Waiting

I think when people say, “I want to be beautiful, and I want to be in love,” they are actually saying, “I want to be listened to.”

More Fear and Loathing, or, Why Health Care Discussions Are So Scary

I wrote the other day about Americans having no balls. What I meant by that was: I feel that we should give reforming our health care system a serious, dramatic, bold, brave try. I’m going to add, today, that my rah-rah goes out with a full understanding of why people are afraid. I would like […]

Monster in the Closet

Somehow, we continue to dither about how or if to change our health care system. We have shown great leadership at some times in our history, but when I read about how we compare with other countries today, I worry that we are stuck in fear. The other industrialized nations of the world have shown […]

Death Becomes Him

The week before Michael Jackson died, I bought “Say Say Say” from iTunes. To be honest, this was a coincidence: I was in a cheesy-former-Beatles mood, and not on a Michael Jackson bender. However, I have all my life felt obligated to turn Michael Jackson jokes around with, “Okay, but he made some great dance […]