Having a Smug-gasm

Gold is falling. And I’m riding a delightful wave of Schadenfreude. I wondered just why I was so happy at their misfortune, so I though long and hard about it. And it ties into my psychology, philosophy and pretty much everything I hold dear. First, I’ll admit up...

Just Be There for Each Other

Boston is my city. I’ve lived all my life within an easy half hour drive to the Hub. Except at rush hour, when it’s an easy two or three hour drive.  I have close family living in the city proper. All my life, going “into town” meant Boston. I still say “hahbah” for...

Playing with the Third Rail.

The biggest single problem with guns in this country is that we are unable to have a conversation about them that doesn’t degenerate into bumper stickers.Now, I’ll say up front, I like guns. I like the feel as the weapon settles in the hand, I like the noise and the...

Ask a Bitter Medic: Vaccinations

I’d like to talk about some facts versus folk wisdom and pseudoscience about vaccinations, and flu shots in particular.“But the flu shots just makes me sick,” you say. “Why take a shot that makes me sick?”A fair question, and one that is easily answered, but we’re all...