A Lesson from Health Care Reform That’s Not about Health Care Reform

I ate dog food. Let me tell you why.

These days, dog owners who pamper their pets can easily wind up in the poorhouse. Within the past two years, Americans have spent nearly $41 billion on their furry friends. Today, we have designer dog furniture, cringe-worthy doggy couture (accessories not…

It’s a renewable energy advocate’s dream: Consumers joining together to get solar, driving adoption rates up and prices down, and using local green job training programs to help install the panels. Such is the promise of One Block Off the Grid, which announced its latest residential solar…

When Kate Gosselin steps onto the dance floor Monday night for the season premier of “Dancing With The Stars,” she will be lucky to have a great partner in Tony Dovolani (that’s him in the photo above). I know this because Tony and I used to compete on the professional ballroom circuit…

In the early 90’s, I bought a copy of ActRaiser for the SNES.  I have no idea how I knew to buy this game.  I don’t know how people knew to do anything without the Internet.  I guess I liked the box art and decided that was enough reason to get the game.  To anyone born in the past 15…

“Where are you from, honey?” the woman asked as she ushered me into her home and gave me a lunch bag filled with homemade cookies. “New York,” I said. “And I’ve never seen anything like this before.” “That’s because New York doesn’t have any Sicilians,” she countered. Pace Vito Corleone, Tony…

As we all know by now, health care reform is the worst thing to ever happen in America.  Health care reform will rape your grandmother and burn your house down.  If you ran into health care reform while walking down a dark alley, it would push you down, steal your wallet, and call you a…

In Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg,” the so-called “first lady of mumblecore,” Greta Gerwig, plays love interest to a guy who’s “trying to do nothing for a while,” played by Ben Stiller. So is that a step up, or what? I talked to Gerwig for half an hour in a hotel room the other day, and neither of…

The PEW Research Center released their annual report on the state of the news media in America on Monday. If, like me, you believe in the importance of good journalism and a vibrant news media it is a depressing read,

Newspapers, including online, saw ad revenue fall 26% during the year,…

Is strep throat the only fucking illness you know how to diagnosis? I understand that maybe I’m not in a position to judge because I didn’t go through years upon years of advanced medical training, but I’m gonna judge alright. Because I am sick and tired of sitting in that waiting room while you…

The New York Times has an insightful piece about the recent lawsuit between the late artist Jack Kirby’s estate and Marvel Comics. Kirby is one of the founding fathers of superhero comics. Actually, he’s more than that. He’s one of the first creators to really explore the possibilities of…

One by one, Tiger Woods is slowly being abandoned by his sponsors. The one man corporation is downsizing significantly. When Gatorade recently axed him, it was a sign that Tiger is going to be facing significant challenges if he wants to reclaim his advertising throne.

SportsChat has kindly…