Category: The Ways of the World

Your Car is Totaled; Now What?

Say you’re driving down the road in your much-loved older car that you know — you just know — is gonna last you for many, many more years. And say you’re smiling to yourself about how the car has only gotten better with age because it’s been your good buddy […]

90 Days of Rush Limbaugh: It’s Enough to Make Me Miss Dave Ramsey

It’s been 90 days since I first heard Rush Limbaugh come out of my radio where once Dave Ramsey had been. Pre-2014, I’d been doing here and there 15-minute Dave Ramsey listenings as a part of my morning twa-let, and can quite unequivocally state that, even though I often disagreed […]

Our Healthcare System is Full of Traps for the Unwary, and Needn’t Be: Medicare Observation Status

If you should ever find yourself thinking that you know everything there is to know about a given part of our healthcare system, please, think again. Think again because, at that very point in time, just when you least expect it and are at your most ultra-hubristic max, you just […]

Our Healthcare System is a Battlefield, and Needn’t Be: Dying from Cancer in the U.S. vs. Dying from Cancer in France

Making the blogosphere rounds this past week was a very interesting article by Anya Schiffrin. The article compares what it’s like having stage 4 pancreatic cancer in the U.S. healthcare system vs. what it’s like having stage 4 pancreatic cancer in the French healthcare system (for those who always have […]

Richard Sherman’s Post-Game Interview: We Want Our Violence Stylized

Ever since it happened last Sunday, Richard Sherman’s interview with Erin Andrews immediately following the 49ers/Seahawks NFC championship game has truly lit up the TwitterVerse. Some are applauding the authenticity of the moment, comparing it favorably to the vapid platitudes of most sports interviews. Others are berating Sherman for a […]

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