I recently received an email from a friend who forwarded the following rant from a doctor: “Dear Mr. President: During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and […]
Month: January 2012
REMEMBERING MARTIN LUTHER KING
On this day when we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King and mourn his death, it is at once encouraging that so much progress has been made in terms of racial discrimination and disheartening to realize that so much more remains to be done. 1968 was a traumatic year in many respects, but for […]
CHALLENGING THE RULES OF WAR
I keep reading and hearing about “rules of war.” Talk about an oxymoron. Call me naive, but I believe there should be only one rule of war: Don’t do it! Sure, people have been doing it since time immemorial, but that doesn’t mean they should. One rule of war that makes no sense is that […]