While I agree generally with the generality, I will say that my law degree has still had value during my time off of full time job-time employment. I focused on a new area of law--trusts and estates, got up to speed in that area, and did some contract and pro bono work for friends and family. In other words, I am confident that legal and medical professionals can be valuable, even without Read More

The Supreme Court did not agree with what you're saying, they said that the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate CO2 ( a mistaken 5:4 decision BTW) if the EPA issued an endangerment finding inner peace. Unfortunately, the EPA did issue just such a finding based on the flawed information put out by the IPCC. This finding will, in light of the climategate emails and subsequent reaction, Read More

This is stupid. No one knows that statins reduce heart risk by lowering healthy cholesterol levels. We do know the lower the cholesterol, the lower the heart risk. We do know statins lower cholesterol somewhat. What we don't know is if statins lower heart risk by some mechanism entirely independent of cholesterol. There are cholesterol lowering drugs that don't change cardiac risk, and Read More

Gee Peggy, there is little danger we will forget how much you hated W, but thanks for the reminder in any case. There is a pragmatic reason for steering clear types of personality traits nominating Newt. Newt Gingrich, whose depiction of a combative conservative so thrills debate audiences, is despised by most of the country. Fair or no, he has been so thoroughly dumped on by every media Read More

I read this and remember the words of Thoreau a century and a half ago: Society is commonly how to meet new peopleo cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. ...we live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over Read More

Judging by the frightening lack of reply how to focus better my comment, let me suggest the following: forget about the conservative/tea party wins in the last Congressional election. They focus on the past, voting no in Congress, repealing things that benefit Americans. They have nothing to offer for the future. We need to focus on what our country can do: produce ideas, and intelligence, Read More

Joe - That's not the question here. The question here is whether the state can force a doctor to become an ADVOCATE for a political position on abortion - pro or con. The ONLY input a doctor has now - or should have - is on the medical dimensions of the strategic decision making. The moral choice is up to the patient - not the state government. Government should NEVER mandate what tests Read More

Allen may have made the stadium too small! Marching car tax bands are huge in Texas. They have one of the larger marching bands (about 750) and corresponding flag corps and high kick line (say 100 each). Each of those students needs a seat in the stands plus room for the advisers, staff, and volunteers to hand out food and snacks. Add in some more for equipment handlers and miscellaneous Read More

There are two different kinds of 'forgive yourselfness' being discussed here. One is how we get forgiven for sins we commit. The other is what we do for our own health. If you forgive someone else for what they did to you, you set aside the natural desire for vengeance (which leaves you stuck with the pain and the suffering as long as it is unrequited), and you move forward with your Read More

Carlos, I can imagine that when you were young, there was inappropriately high doses given out to kids by inexperienced doctors. From what I can tell, that still occurs. Also kids do need to learn coping mechanisms when unmedicated. My 8 year old son has ADHD far worse than me, but we take him off on the weekend, so he will eat and sleep well, plus have a chance to deal with it outside Read More