For years now when people ask how I am, I answer, “grateful.” For years I have received a number of what I call cold shoulder responses. Today was no different. I was at the cleaners and the young woman at the counter asked rather automatically as she readied to take my clothes, “How are you…

Behind the politics, potential success and costs of healthcare reform, there are the values it reflects and is meant to serve. For example, is healthcare a right or a commodity? If it is a right, what ought to be the terms of the debate, the missing provisions in a bill? If it is a commodity,…

There’s a new lawyer’s referral service based in Boca Raton, Fla and serving several states called WhocanIsue.com. There are many such services, and they can be quite useful when one needs a lawyer and doesn’t know where to turn. And yet there’s something about this one that is cause for concern, or at the very…