Our Health Care:  Moving from Dream to Reality

Our Health Care: Moving from Dream to Reality

Are you tired of the hassle with co-pays and deductibles?  Are you sick with “in network provider” or “out of network provider?”  Do you have to keep taking painkillers, while waiting for your insurance company to approve the surgery...
St. Petersburg Health Care Rally

St. Petersburg Health Care Rally

It was a warm, sunny, Florida day on a Saturday morning, [February 25, 2017,] in downtown St. Pete. Nevertheless, several hundred people chose to meet with their Congressman, Charlie Crist (D-St. Petersburg), in front of his office. Unlike his Republican counterparts,...
Indeed, the Emperor Is Naked

Indeed, the Emperor Is Naked

Many of my good friends voted for Donald J. Trump. They really did not like Hillary Clinton and saw her as the Establishment candidate, the “Sage Canaday” [mountain-ultra-trail runner] of the rich and powerful, who have exploited them. The fact that the...
The Revolution is Just Beginning

The Revolution is Just Beginning

By all accounts there were approximately 500,000 people, mostly women–but about 20% men–at the Women’s March on Washington, on Saturday, January 21, 2017.  The National Park Service no longer gives estimates, but one can get a fair idea by the...

When is a Virgin Not a Virgin? When She’s the Blessed Virgin!

In ancient times virginity was prized because virgins were sure to be free of sexually transmitted diseases. In Jesus’s time, girls were married at around age 13. Girls received what little education they got from their mothers. They were expected to bear...