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Fitness Trainer Unfit to Write
I’m part-way through an email promotion for what the fitness trainer alleges to be the most amazing discovery about how to flatten your...
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Jun 19, 20154 min read
Media Full of Baloney on Saturated Fat
My old stomping grounds (for only two years), The Associated Press, is at it again. Whenever some government pronouncement about...
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Jun 14, 20153 min read
A word to the dumb
Be wary of the words you choose. They may mean something entirely different from what you thought they meant. Someone posted on Facebook...
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Jun 7, 20153 min read
Done deal: Florida Republicans reject $78 billion for Medicaid
Fellow Floridians, have you read the newspapers today? Tax cuts that you would have received aren’t going to happen. Florida Gov. Rick...
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May 31, 20153 min read
Florida Leaders Play Politics, Sacrifice People
It looks like the bad guys in the Florida Legislature and the governor are going to win the battle over whether to grant health care to...
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May 25, 20153 min read
Scott’s politicking fleeces Floridians
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and House Speaker Steve Crisafulli are hell-bent on plunging the state into a fiscal and environmental morass....
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May 17, 20154 min read
Chewing or Eschewing the Fat
You Docs, Oz & Roizen It never ceases to amaze me how certain voices in the medical community attain status as experts on all things...
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May 9, 20153 min read
Health and the media
Brian Williams Leading voices in the media are probably more dismayed by former NBC-TV news anchor Brian Williams’ misrepresentations of...
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May 2, 20153 min read
Extremism in the pursuit of pragmatism is no vice.
Barry Goldwater Notwithstanding Barry Goldwater’s mantra “Extremism in the cause of liberty is no vice,” it has dire consequences. Look...
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Apr 25, 20153 min read
The Scott scam
It wasn’t a prominently placed story in the Palm Beach Post – an inside page, three-column headline: “Scott, ACLU end fight over state...
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Apr 19, 20153 min read
Estate Tax Tiff
Once again, the Republicans in the House of Representatives are showing their true colors – and they ain’t pretty. They long have railed...
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Apr 11, 20153 min read
Doing the Can Con
The You Docs are making progress, but they’re not there yet. Their last column in my local newspaper had them starting out on a mostly...
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Apr 5, 20153 min read
Feeling so gay in a melancholy way
Sen. Mitch McConnell Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief...
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Mar 29, 20153 min read
Spare the hyphen and spoil the phrase.
Don’t be niggardly with the hyphen. Doing so can wreak havoc. On the other hand, insert those little sawed-off lines in the right places,...
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Mar 22, 20154 min read
Compounding the problem
Today’s topic is probably the most frequent grammatical error, which abounds in newspapers and every type of literature to be found. The...
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Mar 15, 20154 min read
Due for a Bash-ing
CNN’s Dana Bash Dana Bash, a likable correspondent for cable channel CNN, did anything but live up to her name Sunday in quizzing Senate...
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Mar 8, 20153 min read
Bombs Away!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The hawks in Congress and the media have been jumping all over President Obama for the...
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Feb 27, 20154 min read
Vaccinations quandary
The media, for the most part, scorn the folks who resist vaccinations for diseases or are disinclined to have their children vaccinated....
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Feb 27, 20154 min read
Vaccination quandary
The media, for the most part, scorn the folks who resist vaccinations for diseases or are disinclined to have their children vaccinated....
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Feb 14, 20153 min read
Cholesterol Okay Now?
Well, the government diet gurus have switched positions again. Now they don’t think cholesterol is bad for you. Not long ago, so-called...
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