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Forests and Trees, Filters, And The Devils You (Don’t) Know
Stick with me, this is not going to be a blog about the environment—perhaps a little bit about the political landscape, but not the physical one. The prevailing view is that “the” saying is “Too close to the trees to see the forest,” meaning that one bogged down in...
How Could They Run The Country If They Can’t Run A Campaign?
Making a mistake is not the end of the world. We all make them. What is the end of the world is when we don’t learn from the ones we make so that we don't repeat them. That’s what the GOP is doing. Seemingly not learning a thing from the errors it made leading up to...
I Know It When I See It–Or Who’s Teaching The Teachers, Part 2
“I know it when I see it,” a colloquial expression by which a speaker attempts to categorize an observable fact or event although the category is subjective and lacks clearly defined parameters. The phrase was made famous in 1964 when used by U.S. Supreme Court...
How Soon We Forget
Have you forgotten the “great crash” of 2008? Certainly those who have not had a real job ever since have not. Apparently, our political “leaders” have. Not the only cause of the 2008 crash, financial deregulation certainly ranks right up there. Left more and more to...
Who’s Talking About Diabetes? [Almost] No One
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 it....
Anchors Away, Miranda
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....
Isn’t Charity Supposed to Begin at Home?
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...
Should What Happens In Flight Stay In Flight?
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...
Giving New Meaning to the Expression ‘Black Box’
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...
A Couple of Timely, or Timeless, Riddles
What do the latest school campus killings in Oregon have to do with the price of meds these days? Hint: At the risk of giving you the answer to the first riddle, what does Nero have in common with the U.S. Congress and what rhymes with riddle? Depending on the news...