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lighten up…

So, let’s lighten it up a bit on Marble Festival Day.. Enough of this Mortgage Crisis talk. As advertised, the Shriners were out in force with their funny cars, as were a gajillion princesses, tow trucks, fire engines, and a particularly loud contingency of motorcycles. This year, there were two Christian Puppet floats. The High [...]

31 107 more days…

Statement on Congressional Approval of Bailout
This is the first time in the history of the United States that the president has sought to provoke a financial panic to get legislation through Congress. While this has proven to be a successful political strategy, it marks yet another [...]

a lesson…

It’s strange to have spent the last several years keeping up with what has seemed to me to be a corrupt Administration in Washington, and then to read about corruption in a place that has been so much a part of my life - the Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. In the [...]