One of the great joys of having grandchildren – three and counting – is that I get to read to little kids again. Our living-room bookcase is stuffed with board books, picture books, and chapter books going back to our oldest daughter’s infancy more than 30 years ago. Come to think of it, there is […]

I am psyching myself up to reactivate Facebook. I left during the run-up to the election because it was becoming increasingly aggravating and a massive time suck. I couldn’t stop myself from trying to inject some reason into threads about why Obama or Romney was a minion of Satan, and the next thing I knew, […]

In his column “Nothing healthy about health insurance,” Edgar Allem Beem pontificates that “health care, like education, should not be a business.” In what world? As with any exchange of goods or services, profit and competition tend to police the marketplace, but only if consumers act in their self-interest, voting with their dollars. We don’t […]