Ban Urged on Gifts at Medical Schools Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded. The proposed ban is the result of a two-year effort by the […]
There are a number of posts around about the release of the CDC Study: Estimated Pregnancy Rates by Outcome for the United States, 1990–2004. Mostly reporting on the decline in the teen pregnancy rates. So I though I’d take a look. It’s striking how beginning in 1990, there has been a steady decline in Pregnancies, […]
I guess that anyone who allows himself to think about contemporary politics has days like I’ve had today. I know the indifference shown to things in the news that ought to have people marching in the streets is part of it. We’ve read Memos written by a crackpot lawyer that invalidate our Constitution and our […]
In the Play, No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre [1944], three characters arrive in a room with a closed door [which the audience soon recognizes to be Hell]. In their dialogue, they begin to try to use each other to create a positively tinged self-image. From an old review: When the picture a man […]
Two people who were on the government payroll and have been exposed as prostitutes. One left to be a tenured Professor at a large Law School. The other is to be dishonorably discharged from the Navy.
Once upon a time, there was a place called "the 50’s." Lots of things happened there, mainly a collective sigh of relief from part of that place called "the suburbs" about the end of World War II. There were rumblings then that suggested that it wasn’t the final place for all times, but you wouldn’t […]
General Petraeus, last week in anticipation of this hearing, I sent an urgent email asking my constituents and other Americans if they were serving on this committee, what is the one question they would pose to you. There was an extraordinary response, with more than 5000 questions submitted. These emails and phone calls expressed deeply […]
Our Guide in Kenya a few months ago is a very interesting guy. He’s a college educated sociologist who has been a Photo-Safari Guide ever since they outlawed Big Game hunting [30 years ago]. Throughout our trip, he talked of the coming election, the tribal politics, the sociology of it all [a sociology of […]
Several of you who aren’t used to the blog format have had trouble finding the Africa trip posts. I’ve suspended the other posts for a bit and put this table of contents in place. Just click the title and the post will ‘pop up.’ Day 1 Africa This is Africa The Great Rift Valley Masai […]