Several years ago, I had the pleasure and the honor to teach the humanitarian side of Public Health policy at a major, East Coast, medical school. My students were talented, trained, gifted, and unbelievably strong and well-educated.
Tag Archives: humanities
Playing the April Fool
I do not like April Fool’s Day. I find it dull. The only worse day of the year is “Speak Like a Pirate Day” — that I battle each year with “International Never Speak Like a Pirate Day” — because one idiocy deserves another.
It’s a pain to put up with everyone trying to put one over on you on April 1. Have you ever been played as the April Fool? If so, how did they “get” you?
McMenamins and The Kennedy School
Gordon Davidescu wrote this article.
When I was a kid and we took a long road trip from New Jersey to sunny Orlando, Florida for our first visit to Walt Disney World, one of my parents made an observation about strip malls.
No matter where we went, it seemed, the stores were pretty much the same. They were the same on the outside and the same on the inside. What a peculiar thing, I thought. At home we had such stores as The Princeton Record Exchange and dozens of other small stores – owned and operated by individuals or small groups of people, not large corporations.
American Hungering: Starving Freedom on Food Stamps
What happens to a free nation and a freedom of spirit when the economy is so bad families are forced to go on food stamps in order to survive? Freedom dies in growling stomachs.
Android Assassins: Inventing the Death Wish
Have we met our match in inventing our own assassins? Is it part of our evolutionary, technical DNA, to foster devices that intend to kill us? Have we have created a death wish covenant with technology?
Testing Faith in the Public Square: Got God?
Starbucks in Declination: Brewing Trouble, Not Coffee
Is Starbucks a brand in declination and a failing business? Has the reality of paying $8.00 for a latte finally hit bean bottom of a pitless pocketbook as people realize they can no longer afford fancy coffees if they can’t first pay their mortgages and mounting credit card bills?
Gangland Holiday: Happy Pinching Day!
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! 
Will you be drinking into drunkenness today?
Are you wearing green right now?
Will you be pinching those who aren’t wearing green?
Do you even participate in this non-holiday celebration?
Contextual Texting: ou812 prolly 153 2mr 4eva
Can you decipher the gibberish in the title of today’s post? If you under 15-years-old you certainly can. If you’re over 40 — you might need a clue.
Client 9: The Empire State Governor John
Eliot Spitzer — Client Nine — is now forever known as “The Empire State Governor John” — after getting caught up in an FBI/IRS sex ring sting where it was discovered he appeared to be cheating on the wishes of his wife while smashing the dreams of his three daughters and vetoing voter faith by simply seeking sexual release with a call girl.
I am My Own God, Centerless Grinding and Why Crowds are Not Wise
Sometimes to Win is to Lose
Victoria’s Secret: Sexy or Slutty?
One in 99: Number One as the Prison Nation
The United States is now the number one nation of the incarcerated in the world. The Pew Center on the States released a new report that one in 99 Americans is a prisoner in the nation’s overcrowded jail and prison system.
