I was walking in Berkeley today and I met a woman who was wearing a shirt that said kaiser don’t deny .org or something similar. I asked about that and then looked up the topic this afternoon. Supposedly various states are supposed to have enacted mental health parity laws and supposedly insurance companies and HMOs […]

I was driving on Martin Luther King way today around noon. MLK way is in either Oakland or Berkeley. There is a city to the north called Albany, but whether MLK way goes into Albany I do not know. As you head northbound, you pass by a park area. This park is across the street […]

It has been in the news on and off over the past several years that the city of Richmond, California has created a package of ideas and put them into a program that has seemingly sharply reduced gun violence. Some of the more recent news was what seems to be statistical proof of the effect […]

There is an idea which is found in the Bible and in other spiritual literature outside of the Bible. The idea is that good at times in found in or comes out of evil, though the Bible does not put things in those words. Maybe God or the Bible writers would in fact protest at […]