Today, guest blogger Dr. Barry Pascal recounts the story of how the sight of Mickey Spillane’s obituary transported him into a brief, parallel career in another dimension. (It’s not clear from his account who had to wipe up the drool off the pharmacy counter.)
Read the Rest!Tom Diaz & I—My NRA Experience
Picking up from Tuesday’s post, Tom Diaz & I—The 94th & 103rd Congresses, and Now: By far, the strongest impressions left on me by the whole experience came from our interactions with representatives of the NRA and their allies. This is not your father’s organization.
Read the Rest!The Man Who Rode the Comet
One Hundred thirteen years ago last Sunday, America’s Shakespeare—Samuel Langhorne Clemens, writing and lecturing as the more familiar “Mark Twain“–left this mortal coil as Halley’s Comet approached, just as he’d come in 77 years earlier.
Read the Rest!Tom Diaz & I—The 94th & 103rd Congresses, and Now
After I’d read, mostly agreed with, and reviewed Tom Diaz’ The Last Gun (see last Friday’s post), I was curious about his background beneath the usual book blurbs, so I scratched a little deeper.
Read the Rest!“The Last Gun:” Gun Violence, the NRA & Its Allies
Suppose we approached the problem of gun violence in America in the same manner as other significant public health hazards—such as, say, passenger vehicle fatalities and injuries—by using data analysis, science, and innovation to make a useful but demonstrably dangerous instrumentality safer?
Read the Rest!“We’re Home!”–The Limerick Family
We see young couples struggling and say, “There but for the grace of God, go I.” Sacramento Habitat for Humanity takes it from there–as it has with Brian and Ashly Limerick and their two children, Faith and Christopher.
Read the Rest!“Gifting Grandmas”–Great Cause!
Along with eight of my cohorts, I was privileged to share my work at the Second Annual Gifting Grandmas’ Authors Luncheon at North Ridge Country Club last Wednesday, which benefited Sacramento Crisis Nurseries, an annual project of the Sacramento Children’s Home.
Read the Rest!Dr. Barry: Dollars to “Donut Hole”
Today, guest blogger Dr. Barry Pascal takes a break from his usual comedic low road and uses his combined professional and life experiences (i.e., age) to explore and demystify Medicare’s new drug benefits, as amended by the Affordable Care Act.
Read the Rest!The Night Circus–Hooptedoodle
The Night Circus is Erin Morgenstern’s first novel, published July 3, 2012. I’m reading and writing about it now because it’s the April selection for CapRadio Reads, Capital Public Radio’s book club.
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