July 27, 2010 - Since the health insurance reform bill passed this past spring, you’d think we suddenly stopped having American patients die and suffer unimaginable horror at the hands of the corporate owned and operated healthcare business system in the United States.  No one tells the stories. The reality is that patients were props, and they just aren’t needed as props any more. An estimated 45,000 preventable deaths occurring in these United States annually due to the lack of access to appropriate healthcare marches on.

July 25, 2010 - Help me out here. There's something I've been spending a couple of months trying to get my head around. Why does BP enjoy such a peculiar immunity after having apparently been culpable in the Gulf oil spill? What is the nature of its invisible protective shield? All I know is what you know. Like most other ordinary citizens, I try to keep up the best that I can with the news. I am not, as they say, walking in the corridors of power. But you know, the more I read, the more I imagine those corridors smelling like those disinfectant cakes you see at the bottoms of urinals.

July 20, 2010 - I have been thinking a lot in the last few days about what is happening here in this city with the homeless. The problems we will face are growing steadily with the new moves to drive us out of the city entirely,no sleeping outdoors at all, no showers at St Vincent De Paul, no shelter space, no panhandling, the petty police harassment, and the Final Solution mentality of the mayor and the city council are very disturbing. Perhaps even more so is the apparent attitude of the citizenry at large. At best they are apathetic at worse actively supportive.