He was a living legend, a larger-than-life character who lived in the glare of the public spotlight, a media phenomenon surrounded by beautiful women, three of whom he married. And so the story goes… his mansion, a museum of relics of the chauvinist pig era of 1960-1980 America when strait–laced morality defined woman’s place in […]
“… false hope legislation [Right to Try Laws] … put countless patients at risk by dramatically undermining the FDA’s role in ensuring that medical products are safe and effective before they become widely used.” (Public Citizen) Sadly, It’s time for our umpty-umpth article on that serial offender —the health care industry – a […]
Once upon a time there was a very wicked man who also happened to be a U.S. congressman. He didn’t care too much for “uppity” women. He once said “I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the […]
As hurricane season nears its zenith, its time to take a gander at the rise and fall of the department of the federal government with which two groups of Americans have a long-standing love-hate relationship—those who have an up close and personal relationship with the agency and those of us for whom this agency is […]
Straight from the archives, the unvarnished truth about Marilyn Monroe’s famous (and controversial) press conference following the appearance of her nude photos in the first edition of Playboy. The saga began in 1949 after one of her first appearances on the screen—a walk-on role in the last feature film the Marx brothers made, Happy Talk. […]
“It is one of the consequences of aggression that it hardens the conscience as the only means of quieting it.” (James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer) “My greatest fear is that we are all suffering from historical amnesia. [Because of] a system of power that is always deciding in the name of humanity who deserves to […]
Overheard at a 1953 press conference when it was revealed that an up-and-coming actress, who would go on to be one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, had posed nude at age 22: Press: “Why did you do it?” Actress: “I needed the money.” Press: “Is it true you had nothing on?” Actress: “No, I had […]
If you really want to know how bad it is — ~78% of households in America at one time or another during the past year were living paycheck to paycheck. ~62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 21% don’t even have a savings account. ~900,000 doctors in the U.S. and […]
(Update on U.S. Health Care: Getting Less for More follow link to read original report) In our last depressing foray into the alarming statistics that underpin the sorry state of health care in America, we discovered that America has the highest child and infant mortality rate of any high-income, industrialized country in the world, that […]
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