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September 17, 2009
- Look Carefully. See anyone you know in this photo? Is it your mother, your aunt, your grandmother? Young Elizabeth Eckford is 'welcomed' by angry white women on her first day of school-southern style. The 'insanity' now, is the 'insanity' of 1957. Rush Limbaugh was only seven and Fox TV did not exist so we can't blame him for stirring our beloved mothers, aunts and grandmothers. As ...
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September 15, 2009
- According to Webster's Dictionary, a boogeyman is defined as something frightful; anything imaginary that causes needless fright or excites needless fear. As in many countries, Boogeymen in Azerbaijan are creatures conjured up by parents, so their children will behave. If you are a parent who requires absolute capitulation, the boogeyman is your friend. Because the physical qualities of the ...
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September 13, 2009
- 9/12 "Million MOB March" - Image Credit: Mary Kathrine Ham9/12 "Million MOB March" A Success Without MSM HelpHere in Carter's Second Term, many thought that life would carry on in a business as usual, politics as usual kind of approach.Sure, Barack Obama made history by becoming the first man with African DNA in his blood to be elected as President of the United States, ...
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September 9, 2009
- It's not fun to criticize Barack Obama anymore now that everyone's doing it. Even cautionary blog posts used to feel like a wonderfully lonely place, particularly if you live around San Francisco or on HuffPo. I warned early on about the dangers of over-stimulating the public expectation gland. You can chummy-up the media all you want but even hookers draw lines in the bed sheets when it comes ...
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September 6, 2009
- In the movies that acted as my education the journalist were heroes, sleeves rolled up, typing with two fingers on a manual Royal typewriter. They smoked cigars, even the women reporters, they talked as they typed. People yelled, "hold the front page." These heroes ferreted out corruption, took down puppet mayors, defended the falsely accused and uncovered the truth that would ...
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August 27, 2009
- What’s wrong with the current system? Gross inefficiency, redundancy of services (generally lowering overall quality because the added programs lack adequate proficiency and don’t significantly improve access), irrational deployment of resources (i.e. too many specialists and too few primary care physicians, simultaneous physician gluts and shortages in different geographies, an ...
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August 26, 2009
- I won’t lie and say the moment was transformative. I’d always had compassion for my patients, even the less sympathetic ones. On my psychiatry rotation, I received a tongue lashing from my resident for being disorganized–spending extra time with the retired subway driver who’d attempted suicide after secretly battling depression, and now wanted to talk to someone. I objected ...
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August 25, 2009
- Daniel Haller, Julius Mackie, William Powlis—these three men saved my life. I was 25 and in my final year of medical school. I’d had a nagging cough for several months and my friends urged me off and on to get a chest X-ray, check it out, though they half laughed when they told me. No one, I least of all, imagined anything would turn up. I was interested in radiology at the ...
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August 21, 2009
- It's been said that "name is destiny." It's also been said that "anagrams never lie."What exactly is an anagram? It is a recombination of the letters in a word, name or phrase to spell a new one. The kind of folks who do the New York Times Crossword in ink with no external help used to do these with pen and paper. Now we have computer power for the same purpose. The ...
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August 17, 2009
- As the rhetoric heats over healthcare reform, the swastika has taken center stage. The problem is that no one knows whether the once dreaded symbol is being used to identify the target or the perpetrator. And therein lies the danger. We live in toxic times. The increasing displays of vitriolic calls to violence, fueled by frothy-mouthed commentators like Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin and ...
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