by Ron Barak | Oct 30, 2015
Editor’s Note: diaTribe is a program of The diaTribe Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of people living with diabetes and prediabetes. diaTribe is passionate about diabetes – understanding it, writing about it, and managing...
by Ron Barak | Oct 21, 2015
They tell me orange is the new black. Are courts fast becoming the new legislature—beginning to do the job of our lawmakers when our lawmakers won’t do it themselves? A couple of weeks ago, a U.S. District Court in Texas effectively made an end run on the U.S....
by Ron Barak | Oct 15, 2015
The Obama Administration recently announced that the United States will grant amnesty and permanent residence to 20,000 Syrian refugees. At first glance, this certainly seems like the humane thing to do. Aren’t these poor souls really down on their luck? Let’s take a...
by Ron Barak | Oct 13, 2015
You know those titillating Carl’s Jr. TV commercials? C’mon, don’t be coy. You know what commercials I’m talking about. The series with those well-endowed babes dripping hamburger sauce on their not so private parts. So the wife and I are on a flight home from a...
by Ron Barak | Oct 8, 2015
The Israeli’s have developed a new airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners and also downplays any question of racial profiling. At airport flight check-in, every passenger is required, one at a time, to step into...