Madoff The Good Life

Folks on my Twitter feed were pretty excited yesterday about Bernie Madoff getting sentenced to 150 years in jail.
I wasn’t one of them.
Jail means Madoff gets to always know where his next meal is coming from. His cable bills and continuing education are paid for until he dies. So, for that matter, are [...]

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A Health Care Option We Can ALL Agree On

Health Care is the big topic of debate right now–when we aren’t distracted by those who no longer need any health care at all–and I am leery of alienating anyone by taking sides.
But there is one thing that is very important. Something that we can–and should–agree on regardless of where we stand on [...]

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The Thing That Money Shouldn’t Buy

About two years ago I switched doctors on the advice of several people. The physician I was seeing kept ascribing my various aches and pains to the extra pounds I carried and seemed profoundly disinterested in any other cause for my pain. I loved the new doctor. She took me [...]

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And Wept When It Was All Done…

The only celebrity whose death–or impending death–upset me was, of course, Warren Zevon. When he announced that he had a terminal illness my world was rocked. His music is on every day in my life and I sort of consider him the poet laureate of my adulthood. I didn’t cry on [...]

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Liver: $1.29/Lb

I don’t care that Steve Jobs got a new liver possibly because he’s rich. I really don’t.
I know that I should. I know that I should be yelling and screaming about how unfair it is that money can buy things.
But I’m not. I’m also not writing a blog post on [...]

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Marriage: What It Is, What It Isn’t

I’m breaking my self-imposed silence on Jon & Kate Gosselin because they filed for divorce on my 18th wedding anniversary. In doing so they became the exact opposite of me.
During the brief time that I watched the show last summer it struck me at just how much Kate is like me if I [...]

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Publishing, Reading and Book-Buying In The New World

This is more-tagged because it contains a lot of my inside-baseball thoughts on book publishing. Which to most people is far more boring than baseball.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the publishing industry lately. It’s a loosely kept secret that I’m in the process of finishing up my book and [...]

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Jesus Loves The Little Children But We Spend Too Much On Them

I know this is as tired a rant as possible. Every year around this time bloggers choose to write about this topic. I think I’ve already done two or three of these, but I’ve gotta do one more. I just have to. I have no choice, because this is weighing [...]

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Nothing But The Blood Of Sherri Goforth

(This was initially a comment at TCP but my laziness precluded writing a different entry. I did though want the world to know where I stand on this just because I am that vain, self-centered and…a blogger.)
I’ve been hesitant to say much about the Goforth thing because I respect newscoma and I’m friends with–and [...]

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I’m Not Green

I’m not green and I’m not going to be green. I’m not telling Iran how to run its business because I don’t know enough about the politics over there right now to pick a side. The only two things I’ll speak out against in another country’s business are genocide and crimes [...]

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