Month: February 2012

What’s a Person?

Ever since the US Supreme Court ruled in “Citizens United…” that corporations are “persons” who must be accorded all the rights of free speech, non-corporate persons like myself have been …

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Seabird

On our recent stay in Florida we saw thousands of birds along the shore, hopping before the surging foam, diving toward the waters, clipping inches over the waves. This image …

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Tax Matters

How amazing! In the midst of the Republican primary circus, the American people are actually trying to debate tax policy.  The problem with such debates is that they either drown …

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Next?

Upon returning from that haven of the wintered elderly, I had running through my brain an exchange that might amuse those of us in the Medicare crowd. And for those …

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