My brother Dick just sent me excerpts from Sands of Time, the history of beach volleyball. I picked out this piece about the guy I think was the greatest player of all time, Gene Selznick. Selz was a magician, and could do anything conceivable with a vo… more »

Alan Frances, a psychiatrist who worked on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM 4) asks us to take a look at the monopoly psychiatry has had in the field of mental health diagnostics. I practiced counseling at various levels in New Mexico and was neve… more »

  A response from a writer to a piece on Romney's constant campaign rhetoric about getting government out of the way in WaPo from a blogger seems to me more the case than not. This whole argument is belied by the fact that Romney has been in governme… more »

      Paul Krugman in a NY Times Editorial offers some suggestions as to how the tiny minority of billionaires have hijacked the Republican Party and essentially the current US economy. It is a sobering analysis, and leads one to think the battle tak… more »

Ted Nugent at the NRA conference and Allen West, Tea Party apostle let fly some of the weirdest and ugliest rhetoric yet on the Obama presidency and what should be done remove them varmints from our nation, etc. Interesting that the now shamed Secret Se… more »

Strange world this. Another round of political nonsense, and arguments flying left and right. The war in Syria continues to be a bloodbath, but nothing to be done. Like a Beckett play run amok. Like the world and its ultimately multilayered insistence h… more »

Tycoon Rick Scott's (CPR) campaign against Obama's Affordable Care Act gets a look here from Quackwatch, a good site for news about health scams. Scott, a health insurance exec and Conservative hotshot, has been spending lots of $ blasting any kind of p… more »

  Interesting that the right keeps calling Obama the instrument of 'class warfare' when in reality any examination of the record (as Meyerson does in this WaPo editorial) will only lead to the conclusion that the hogs of Wall Street have increased th… more »