Category: Reflections

I was arguing recently on a medical blog about the issue of laws mandating that caloric and nutrient information be conspicuously placed on menus at …

Honestly, the high jinks of the current administration are hilarious. Take the latest battle in Obama’s neosocialist war on American capitalism, the so-called financial reform …

People who vote sometimes seem to be a political version of my old friend K’s love life. An otherwise intelligent woman, K fell in love …

What is your deepest secret? Can you share it with the people you love most? This is the theme of “City Island,” a wonderful little …

First Lady Michelle Obama will probably have to shop elsewhere, since her favorite designer is going out of business. Maria Pinto can no longer afford …

“Well, mobs get pretty ugly sometimes, you know.” That’s what Mr. Potter, the villain in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” says to Jimmy Stewart when yet …

The Department of Health and Human Services has kindly notified me that the inhalers keeping my asthma in check are being dis- continued. DHHS is …

According to a recent Gallup poll, 67% of Americans no longer believe global warming will threaten their lifestyle. The other 33% are scientists who rely …

Some people are lucky, some aren’t. Take Larry Langford, a maven of machines of chance. He’s one of the blessed ones. Lucky Larry won more …

After ramming his health- care program through Congress and up the wazoo of the American people, Obama did a victory-taunt-dance in the end zone. He …