The Blame for All Our Problems

Read MoreA few thoughts on the immigration situation.

The infamous 1973 World Cup qualifying match between Chile and the (absent) Soviet Union, held at National Stadium in Santiago, shortly after the brutal military coup led by Pinochet.
Read MoreThe 2014 World Cup starts this week. Here’s something to think about when we watch athletes from nations with distasteful governments.

Read More“Fed Up” likely won’t solve this very serious problem. It probably won’t even have much of an impact on what we buy and eat. The food lobby and commercial advertising are too powerful. But someday, when half of this nation is obese and we’re broke trying to figure out how to care for 100 million diabetics with flooded doctors’ offices, we can’t say that we weren’t warned.

Read MoreThe elephant has left the room. But at least it didn’t leave behind a pile of dung.
Talk of the 2016 Republican National Convention taking place here in Las Vegas was precisely that — talk.
Yap. Yap. Yap.
Yada. Yada. Yada.

Read MoreIt’s beyond deplorable that in the year 2014, a person’s sexual orientation still makes the news. One would think we’re past such issues.