I’ve yet to be victimized by the healthcare industry, but my day will come. This fact disgusts me. The fact and the cause of the fact. The system, the industry, the lobbyists, the lawyers. Hospital chains, insurance providers. Duplicitous, hypocritical monsters. Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. How do these people sleep at night? What circle of […]
How clear is your memory of the 1988 presidential election? Mine is fading fast, but I do remember that George H.W. Bush adopted “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” as his official campaign song. For a moment. He later disowned it when songwriter Bobby McFerrin complained. That possibly calculated gaffe by The Decider’s father leapt to mind […]
There’s an independently-owned hardware store in Columbia where I used to go when I needed expert advice. The selection was small, the prices were high and the proprietor, who looked remarkably like Willie Nelson, was in a perpetually bad mood. If I didn’t need advice, I jolly well went to the big box store, but […]
