Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine released online early findings from a pair of long-term medical research studies.  The results of the studies, Mortality Results from a Randomized Prostate-Cancer Screening Trial and Screening and Prostate-Cancer Mortality in a Randomi… Read full post »

After reading the enlightening post, "Breaking Up With Bank Of America" by Lisa Kern--which I highly recommend--and the numerous comments detailing additional unfair practices of the banking industry, I discovered that many people have had their credit severely damaged or destroyed by… Read full post »

A blog I read recently linked to a well-researched article about legalizing euthanasia.  The blogger professed himself to be outraged about the possibility.  I left this post, detailing some of my experiences with one type of euthanasia as a comment, and thought I'd recreate it here--w… Read full post »

 Now that universal healthcare is the trendy topic, more and more people are going to share their thoughts and opinions.  Sharing opinions is generally not at all a bad thing; it fosters discussion that helps people formulate their own ideas, which may eventual… Read full post »

I've always thought that the phrase was "toe the line", meaning something akin to ensuring that one's toes didn't cross a "line drawn in the sand".  Lately, however, I've been seeing this phrase written as "tow the line", meaning--I'm guessing--that "the line" is a burdensome item that one must… Read full post »