Here in Podunk, look out the window and the weather is bad. Look at the TV and the news is bad. Still, I’ve been trying to obey the injunction of the Billie Holliday song by spending each day wending my … Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics as Usual
News from the medical front has arrived. After scaring us silly for 40 years about eating an egg, a pat of butter or a dollop of hollandaise, turn outs eating cholesterol doesn’t immediately clot your veins with cholesterol. It always … Continue reading
It sometimes seems as if we think of graft and corruption as the stuff of the robber barons and Tammany Hall that the progressive era fought, that Mr. Smith went to Washington to oppose or that we bemoan in sleazy … Continue reading