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Big Pharma's Bitter Pill

Every morning I swallow a bitter pill. Actually, the medicine itself isn't all that bitter. It's no different from any of the other medicines I take that make it possible for me to function at home and at work by controlling things like allergies and gastro esophageal...

If Sarah Palin Knew Anything

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." ~ Thomas Jefferson "Keep the faith," Sarah Palin says to Canadian conservatives. "Your health care system could be worse. But only if you work hard...

Seriously, Sarah?

I know this seems like low hanging fruit. But Sarah Palin is back, and along with her mindless blather has returned the chorus of "do not under estimate Palin" and/or "Sarah must be taken seriously." Seriously? We're supposed to take seriously someone who just days...

H1N1 & My Famiy

We'd talked about it earlier in the week, but hadn't really made a definite decision to go. Then, Sunday morning I came downstairs to find this Washington Post story on the computer monitor. On Wednesday, Oct. 7, 6-year-old Heaven Skyler Wilson dragged herself off the...

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