You Docs, Oz & Roizen It never ceases to amaze me how certain voices in the medical community attain status as experts on all things involving diet, merely by trumpeting the long recognized axioms of the medical establishment. I refer specifically to – you guessed it – The You Docs, Mehmet Oz and Michael […]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott Florida Gov. Rick Scott and House Speaker Steve Crisafulli are hell-bent on plunging the state into a fiscal and environmental morass. First the fiscal. The two Republican politicians are not budging a centimeter on their refusal to expand Medicaid to cover 800,000 people even though the Obama administration requires such expansion […]
Florida Senate President Andy Gardiner It looks like the bad guys in the Florida Legislature and the governor are going to win the battle over whether to grant health care to 830,000 uninsured people. Anti-Obamacare politics are winning – and the Obama administration is helping the radical Republicans win it. The issue is whether […]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott Fellow Floridians, have you read the newspapers today? Tax cuts that you would have received aren’t going to happen. Why? Because that money has to pay hospital expenses which would have been paid by the federal government if our dearly beloved governor, Rick Scott, and the like-minded state House Republicans hadn’t exercised their […]
Poring over a book Be wary of the words you choose. They may mean something entirely different from what you thought they meant. Someone posted on Facebook the photo of an attractive young female teacher who led the school cheerleading squad and seduced a high school athlete into having sex with her. A fellow commented: […]
Mary Clare Jalonick My old stomping grounds (for only two years), The Associated Press, is at it again. Whenever some government pronouncement about cholesterol or fats is sounded, AP quotes the positions of official medical sources, completely ignoring the discordant voices in American medicine. The news organization follows this practice even though the medical establishment […]
I’m part-way through an email promotion for what the fitness trainer alleges to be the most amazing discovery about how to flatten your abs ever revealed. I come to this headline: “Big Mistake No. 1: You’re Core Isn’t Working Properly.” And that short, profoundly ignorant sentence undermines the guy’s credibility. I want to shout at […]
When I was in my upper 30s, working with the Palm Beach Post, I came across a piece written by the copy chief that had the conjunction however in the middle of a sentence, with a comma on either side. I still remember how startled I was. I’d never encountered this punctuation error before, and couldn’t […]
Pope Francis Republican Catholics are in a quandary. Do they adhere to their political ideology on climate change, or do they follow their spiritual leader, Pope Francis? As is well-known, the pope recently issued an encyclical (letter to the church’s bishops) denouncing the world’s political leaders for putting national interests ahead of efforts to combat […]
New York Stock Exchange United Airlines plane A single day last week told the story of what’s become of life on planet Earth. On Thursday, July 9, computers brought down the New York Stock Exchange, United Airlines, and the Wall Street Journal. And none of the interruptions in service by these institutions, […]