Month: August 2018

Outrageous charges from for profit hospital The link details the financial dilemma of a teacher with a horrendous bill despite “good” public school insurance. Look at the 2,000% markup on the stents and the overall...

For the remainder of this week, I’ll be doing very light blogging. I have to find some time during the year to get a break from this bullshit, and late August is usually pretty slow as far as political news goes. So, if...

Considering that there is a sexual-assaulter-in-chief sitting in the White House, it’s hardly surprising that the Republican Party isn’t having the kind of success they’d hoped for in increasing the number of...

With the death of John McCain, the senior senator from Maine, Susan Collins, now ranks thirteenth in seniority in Congress’s more prestigious and deliberative body. Among Republicans, only Orrin Hatch, Chuck Grassley,...

I concluded Part 1 of Sears, a tale of the retail apocalypse by writing a program note: “I plan on presenting the view on the ground on Monday, when I will share three videos from Retail Archeology.  Stay...