Objection Sustained Jesus. Now you see why health care is not preventive, why doctors do not make their money from anything except what needs to be done AFTER you have eaten poorly, not had access to anything health-promoting; why Big Pharma DEMANDS that you be tethered to ‘maintenance drugs’ the…

CODE RED Certain zip codes in each city are flagged as their owners being of “a certain age” where violations are most common because of the aging demographic and its attendant socio-economic status. The city also is aware of who has resources to keep up maintenance on landscaping, for example…

Interestingly — with all the changes in awareness and in legislation since the early 1970s — when I was majoring in the brand-new feminist studies program at what was then Colorado Women’s College in Denver — I believe many, many more women ARE feminist. By education or by default, there…

Sometimes the mob is not visibly raging, not violently destroying, in the ways we had come to readily identify in the last 200 years. The new-normal reign of terror may be mental and emotional, as all formerly solid cognitive ground dissolves. The “economic collapse” may be more of a gentle…

Many people on-line are expressing great displeasure about FB “knowing everything” about us. They bleat their frustration and outrage, and rightfully so. They threaten to leave, boycott, not leave a tip. Update: This horse left that particular barn SO long ago. By the time we are aware of how entrenched…

Denouement. Define. Use in a sentence. I remember the tiny “Copeland Bookstore” tucked on a side street in downtown Ft. Worth. Decades ago before Barnes and Noble chewables…….there were these cool little walk-by-fast-and-you’ll-never-see’em bookshops. Once inside, you were absorbed into the magic of looking through the dusty shelves…and more fun…