Persuading the Body Politic, One Heart at a Time
Clink! Clink! Cha Chink! I expected three one dollar bills to come out of the vending machine, but instead I got three shiny, gold-colored Thomas Jefferson dollar coins. I scooped them up, dropped them in my coin purse, and headed off to hear the afternoon speeches by Bill Bennett, Frank Gaffney, and Geert Wilders. Between [...]
To Arms! To Arms! British Healthcare Is Coming!
In the Spirit of the 4th of July holiday, the following is an updated version of an article published in “General Surgery News” – August 2009. April 18, 1775 was a fateful date in American history. That night, Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith, rode his horse through the countryside and called his fellow colonists “To [...]
Rosetta Stone for Political Speak
How can you tell a politician is lying? His lips are moving. That old joke has been around possibly since the first troglodytes gathered around a fire to plot how best to hunt down dinner. It has survived largely because it is true. Whether it is an outright lie or what we [...]
Too Many Letters To Count
That’s my wish for today. If you are a regular reader of this blog you probably already know that your government has abandoned Thomas Jefferson’s immortal (or so we thought) words: “Of the people, by the people, and for the people,” and replaced them with something like, “Of the government, by the government, and for [...]
