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There were some sharp responses from readers of my previous column in which I opined that the foundering of healthcare reform was due to the harsh realities of America’s Darwinian economic system. Clearly, the healthcare issue, along with so many other critical issues confronting this country, is now flammable fodder for the contentious two dimensional ideological thinking that passes for wisdom these days.
I am always impressed by readers who whether in agreeing or disagreeing with me have cog ...
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Welcome to the Jungle
After more than a year of public debate, political maneuvering, and daily media attention, the issue of healthcare in America remains unresolved. As the entire, frustrating, process drags on it reveals not only how difficult it is to find a solution ...
Warning, this column is X-Rated
Sex sells. Just ask the folks who produce Viagra or Internet pornography. The more lurid or unusual the sexual behavior, the greater is the interest. The media predictably goes into hyper drive over the sexual escapades of celebrities like Tiger Wood ...
Caught in an eddy of political flotsom
President Obama’s first State of the Union address was impressive in its eloquence, confrontational force, and stern sincerity. He faced his critics head on, chastised them and challenged them to help find solutions to the nation’s pending problems. ...
Firefighters to benefit from donated equipment
Local firefighters will benefit from new emergency response equipment thanks to a $5,000 donation to the Santa Barbara Firefighter’s Alliance from ExxonMobil.
The nonprofit alliance works to supply local fire departments with critical equipment for ...
Live unfree and die anyway
Here we go again. Another wanna-be martyr has attempted to bring down a U.S. airliner. For reasons that appear to include faulty materials or his own ineptitude, this servant of god failed to murder a plane load of infidels. Nevertheless, the predictable repercussion of his failed attempt is the over-reaction of an embarrassed federal security apparatus. Now all air travelers will be subjected to further personal indignities and herded through even more humiliating gauntlets of airport “security”.
A Christmas Complaint
Scrooge had it right; Christmas is a humbug, a poor excuse to empty one’s pockets every December 25th. Christmas has become a burden of expectation and obligation; a flurry of shopping, setting up a tree, and sending out cards. For children, it can be fun, for adults it can be an expensively tedious humbug.
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