Don’t be niggardly with the hyphen. Doing so can wreak havoc. On the other hand, insert those little sawed-off lines in the right places, and you’re in hyphen heaven. Let’s deal with the havoc first. An entertainment writer tells us, “Delray Beach’s Pineapple Grove is one of my favorite local places to park my car […]
Sen. Mitch McConnell Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief last week that it shouldn’t impose, nationwide, “a federally mandated redefinition of the ancient institution of marriage.” It ain’t necessarily so. Either knowingly or mistakenly, conservatives often show ignorance of […]
The You Docs The You Docs are making progress, but they’re not there yet. Their last column in my local newspaper had them starting out on a mostly solid footing – and then they stumbled. “Soybean oil is the most used vegetable oil in North America, found in scores of prepared foods,” Drs. Mehmet Oz […]
President Obama Once again, the Republicans in the House of Representatives are showing their true colors – and they ain’t pretty. They long have railed against Obama because the middle and lower classes have so little, and charge him with causing the nation’s debt to spiral out of control. Then they voted last week to […]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott It wasn’t a prominently placed story in the Palm Beach Post – an inside page, three-column headline: “Scott, ACLU end fight over state drug tests.” So I wonder how many of the people who voted in November to give the Florida governor another four years saw it, or are otherwise aware […]
Barry Goldwater Notwithstanding Barry Goldwater’s mantra “Extremism in the cause of liberty is no vice,” it has dire consequences. Look at the extremist political ideology in the United States and the religious fanatacism in the Middle East, and you see the suffering they cause. Cut-throat conversions ISIS beheadings Adherents to the belief […]
Brian Williams Leading voices in the media are probably more dismayed by former NBC-TV news anchor Brian Williams’ misrepresentations of his exploits covering the Iraq War than are the general population. Would that the media were that concerned over their reporting about GMOs and other health issues. They hew to the positions of recognized […]
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 […]