This is such a curious time we’re living in. Maybe that’s always true, but it seems particularly true right now. While I was driving to my office this morning, an interviewer on the radio asked a conservative columnist for the Washington Post if she thought the Republicans wanted to lose the election. What?? Can you […]
Let’s Begin
Recently Tim Cook the CEO of Apple was interviewed on 60 Minutes by Charlie Rose. In response to a question from Charlie Rose Mr. Cook said that the notion that his company is avoiding taxes on overseas profits is just “political crap.” Mr. Cook explains that he would love to bring all the money home, […]
Who Gets to Decide?
Among the “knotty problems” we have right now is that of – Who gets what medicine? And who should pay for it? And should any medication cost $1,000 a day or $84,000 for a 12-week course of treatment? (That is the often reported cost of Sovaldi, Gilead’s hepatitis C pill.) And if, as apparently is […]
Life is Enough
Recently I was at a conference. Heroically, I felt, I got up very early and went to the gym in the hotel and worked out before the meeting started. Before returning to my room, I stopped in the coffee shop in the hotel to pick up a cup of coffee. A lovely young woman waited […]
One Step at a Time
In 1968 at an election rally at the University of Kansas Robert Kennedy said that the then current Gross National Product of the US was just over $800 billion dollars. He went on to say that that GNP also includes air pollution and jails and nuclear warheads and armored cars for police. . .however . […]
What is the Sign of Enough?
A Beginning. . . . . Today I’m beginning this blog post because I can no longer not. My intention for it is for us over the next several months to explore the question “How will I know when I have enough?” And to have each of us wrestle with the question, along with others […]