Cancer Survival: My Contrarian View
Elizabeth Edwards has my deepest sympathy. For a cancer patient, bad news from the doctor brings on feelings of horror and metaphysical despair that far surpass a punch in the gut, a slap in the face,...
View ArticleCancer: You Can't Fight a War Without Propaganda
An article about Elizabeth Edwards reminds me why the War on Cancer is "the medical Vietnam."
View ArticleRepublicans and their guns
The flap over Mitt Romney’s exaggerated accounts of his hunting background has me wondering, why is the willingness to own firearms and use them to kill animals or even human beings a litmus test for...
View ArticleU.S., North Korea, Ethiopia, Somalia: A Scenario Worthy of LeCarre
Washington looks the other way while Ethiopia accepts a weapons shipment from one pole of the Axis of Evil ... and the Ethiopians are accused of war crimes in Somalia.
View ArticleBattlefield ethics in Iraq
Much is sure to be made of the Surgeon General’s report on the mental health of U.S. combat troops in Iraq. If you go to the PDF version of the report and flip to the "Battlefield Ethics" section,...
View ArticleNYT reports dirty truth
I've worked for newspapers for all my adult life, so I take a personal interest in these things.Yesterday another poster correctly pointed out that most U.S. news providers were ignoring a Marine...
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