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Dogs Have Better Medical Care than Humans

Dogs Have Better Medical Care than Humans

When my wife and I recently moved to Tucson from Phoenix, we had to find a new family doctor.  Then, shortly after the move, we got a new puppy—which we named Cato—and had to find a veterinarian. There was a marked contrast between the two experiences. In short, it’s...

Conservative Erectile Dysfunction

I don’t have a rooster in the ongoing cockfight between liberals and conservatives.  But I do pay attention to both liberal and conservative media. Paying attention serves as an early warning system of when they are hatching plans separately or jointly to steal...

A School Shooting: Pull Out the Old Scripts

Last night I went to bed after watching a couple of hours of coverage on various networks about the horrific school massacre in Florida.  This morning I got up at 4:45 and began watching more coverage. When retiring last night, I mentioned to my wife that it was...

Time for a New Works Progress Administration

My fellow libertarians will become hysterical with this commentary and send me to the intellectual gulag.  Conservatives and liberals will join hands with them. Why?  Because they won’t like my alternative to Trump’s plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure. Instead...

A Surreal Scene from American Healthcare

Scene:  A luncheon on Superbowl weekend at a resort in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains in metro Tucson, Ariz.  In attendance were about 200 patients of a local family physician, who hosted the luncheon to show his appreciation to his patients. I’m not...

Torture by Smartphone

A museum in Paris features torture devices used in the middle ages, such as the rack. Centuries from now, a torture museum of the 21st century will feature smartphones as the most popular torture device of the times. My latest torture by smartphone began with the...

An Environmentalist Applauds Trump

Twenty-five years ago I founded and headed a large and influential environmental grassroots group in metro New York. One of my biggest challenges was to keep my board of directors and rank-and-file from embellishing, exaggerating and distorting the facts in the heat...

Thou Shalt Not Commit Acts of Unlicensed Charity

In keeping with the unofficial but universally enforced government mandate to obstruct human progress and cultivate misery, the Arizona State Government’s Board of Cosmetology is investigating a complaint against a cosmetology student from Tucson who has been giving...

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