Surveys tell us that the majority of Americans want a public option … as many as 72% of us by some counts. Yet the congressmen from Pfizer, Humana, Blue Cross and Hoffman-La Roche are deaf to the cries of constituents who don’t parrot the healthcare industry’s propaganda machine. They insist on framing the debate as […]
Once upon a time, I was the artistic director of a small touring theater company. For five years, I wrote, scored, acted, directed and built. The building part of the job involved hundreds of hours spent screwing and glueing together set pieces, some of them two stories tall, all of them designed to pass in […]
I left my car at the theater today and walked to Cherrydale Shopping Center. About five miles into the six-mile circuit, a small dog – a cross, I’d say, between a beagle and a Chihuahua – ran out of the Buncombe Highway Hardee’s parking lot onto the sidewalk, seemingly in pursuit of the Hardee’s employee […]
