A Warning from Snowden
Edward Snowden was one of 14 people whose thoughts about the year 2030 ran in the last Sunday New...
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Author: Fred Gardner
Cannabis as a treatment for Glaucoma
By Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD Letter to a colleague, November 7, 2019 I wanted to send to you a...
Read MoreOff-season baseball news: Boo and Bernie
The devil weed is being dropped from the list of banned substances for minor league players. (‘Boo’ is one of those old code words for marijuana.) And Bernie Sanders is protesting a plan by Major League Baseball —the...
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Margaret Lawrence, Fitzhugh Mullan
“Dr. Margaret Lawrence, 105, Dies; Pioneering Black Female Psychoanalyst,” was the...
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The Humiliation of Clifford Robinson
The facts, as stated by the AP May 12, 2006: “New Jersey forward Clifford Robinson was...
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Sympathy for Mrs. Sackler
“Tufts Removes Sackler Name Over Opioids: ‘Our Students Find it Objectionable'”...
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Edward Snowden’s Permanent Record
When Edward Snowden was a tyke in North Carolina, his father, an engineer in the Coast Guard, got...
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Life Expectancy Declining for US Americans
Life expectancy is the bottom line, the basic measure of how a society is faring. Ours has been...
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California’s MMJ card program withers
A dispatch from Leafly’s David Downs Nov. 11 describes the negative effect of...
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