Nicholas Kristof raises a really interesting question in today’s New York Times. Here’s a clip. …Yet although America’s elderly are now cared for, our children are not. A Johns Hopkins study found that hospitalized children who are uninsured are 60 percent more likely to die than those with insurance, presumably because they are less likely […]
I was just reading this piece in today’s New York Times on the enormous profits being posted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs, and I was reminded of an article I read a week or so ago in Rolling Stone by Matt Taibbi. Here are clips from both for your consideration. First, the New York […]
Every couple of years, when I have a little money, I contribute a few dollars to The ALS Association. It’s not much. It’s more symbolic than anything. As ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, drove my grandmother to suicide, after years of suffering, I have a special place in my heart for people who […]
Was I the only one to read the New York Times article today on the two al Qaeda members who were waterboarded a total of 266 times by the CIA, and wonder if maybe we would have gotten some really incredible intelligence had we tried it just one more time? I mean, who stops at […]
