NM-2 absentee count report
Just returned from the overnight shift at the absentee count precinct for Bernalillo County, NM. I'm toasted and still have to get my kid ready for school, so I'll recap the important points and edit...
View Article16 dead in US copter crash in Afghanistan
This is the issue that brought me here and brought me into political action for this decade, the absentminded imperialism that we've all become accustomed to ignoring. I'm not as spiritually...
View Article$60 fine for risking 10 lives
It's almost unbelievable, the things they say when they know someone is writing it down. Makes you wonder what they say when nobody's listening. Robert Murray, CEO of the company that runs the Utah...
View Article9/11: the day our luck ran out
This essay, dated Sept.13, 2001, is far more disturbing now than it was 6 years ago. I would have strongly preferred to be wrong. ---------------------------------- Last spring, our family got lucky....
View ArticleSCHIP saved my family business
In May 2000, we adopted a healthy baby. Just a typical middle-class couple, small-business owners who had to pay for health insurance out of our profits as we grew the business. Or so we believed. As...
View ArticleGo Indians! Not a baseball diary.
Gather round, Tribe fans. I need your help. My 7 year old is being raised in the Southwestern US. We're a long way from the North Coast. My kid's class has four kids who are, well, Indians. Navajo,...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Jonathan Raush, today's NY Times
I can't really conceive of these intellectually compromised men being taken seriously as having the right they're claiming here, to waive civil equality for my kid. But oddly, their work product is...
View ArticleMonday Night Cancer Club: 50 Years of Followups? Young adults w/cancer
My wife is a 19 year survivor of CML, one of the lab rats who took the odds on a clinical trial of what's now sold as Gleevec. She was almost 30 by the time her cancer was correctly diagnosed, and the...
View ArticleMonday Night Cancer Club: How the ACA is making life after cancer better
My wife had cancer first. She was diagnosed in 1994. The small business where she worked at the time lost their insurance over it. She hasn’t been insured for 19 years. The only bright spot: At least...
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