I'm not usually one to read columnist's diatribes in the papers, particularly from religion-based columists. But this one caught my eye.

https://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/o...J%2BqVyw%3D%3D

I find myself hard-pressed not to agree with the man. Particularly if you read further down...

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/he...er=rss&emc=rss

From the NY Times, "Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy"

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https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080605/...ed_hit_and_run

You have to wonder...

What were these people afraid of? Getting their hands dirty? Is this a big-city thing, this callousness? Or is it just the new way of looking out for the old number one?

I don't understand it. At all. In the neighborhood I used to live in, we had a lot of car accidents at the intersection. Mostly fender-benders, but sometimes worse. Everyone in the neighborhood...

I watched this video

https://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...php?cl=8011484

and almost could not believe my ears. Almost.

But I knew exactly how that little boy felt. Because I still remember, word for word, action for action, what my kindergarten teacher did to me. Forty-eight years later, I still get the same sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when the memory rears its ugly little head.

I was an average-sized kid, but I was used...