I feel so bad about this guy, John Jones, who died while spelunking in Nutty Putty Cave near Salt Lake City. He and his wife are so beautiful; he was in medical school and she’s expecting their 2nd kid. (Utah, remember.) More than 50 people tried to help him for over a day. The 6-foot-tall, [...]

I’m really sad to see the health adjustment plan won’t make it through. I wanted it to be an arrow in the heart of the evil, lying, non-life saving insurance companies. Usually I’m a capitalist, all for anyone who wants to make money, anyhow. Let the strongest one win. But not with health insurance. It’s [...]

When Ted Kennedy passed away, I re-investigated the Chappaquidick death of Mary Jo Kopechne here. And I came across a quotation that has stuck with me: “To those whom much is given, much is expected.” Photo of bridge with new guard rail from Wikipedia. Some attribute it to John Kennedy, but I read that the [...]

Ted Rall is a liberal who hates most things President Obama has done this year. I am (mostly) conservative, who thinks Obama is doing a decent job, although I can’t point out anything in particular that is great. So we’re kind of going in opposite directions, but I enjoyed pointing out to him recently on [...]

* UPdate: Different version of this in Psychology Today. I have a growing collection of Sad Cartoons, it appears. I could have put this in the Holiday category, but that wouldn’t have been appropriate, when this is a memorial cartoon for September 11. I forget that holidays are big in newspapers. Newspapers, and in schools! [...]

I’ve always been curious about the Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne drowning, so of course that’s where my mind went last night when I read about his death. What? Is that bad, or is that normal!? I’ve only been following the news closely this last year, remember; it’s like a crash course of the [...]