Driving home from work last night, I caught the tail end of Terry Gross’s interview with Andrew Rannells. Rannells is one of the stars of the new NBC sitcom “The New Normal,” and played the lead in the original Broadway… Continue Reading
The other day, I lingered in my car to hear the entirety of Annie Lennox’s 1992 hit “Walking on Broken Glass.” Chances are I had something better to be doing inside, but there was at least another verse to go… Continue Reading
No big surprises here: Antibiotics are important drugs, often restoring health and even saving lives. But like all drugs, they can have unwanted and serious side effects, some of which may not become apparent until many thousands of patients have… Continue Reading
It’s recipe time here at the League! I am pleased to say that I do, indeed, have my own recipe for chili, but since that’s already been done, I thought perhaps I would share my recipe for chicken soup. Cold… Continue Reading
Like essentially everyone not named Krauthammer, I loved the First Lady’s speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. I thought that it was warm and personal and effective. It’s probably no great surprise that I liked it,… Continue Reading
I am usually loath to post about something without supporting links. I feel it’s an undue privilege for a blogger to report about something that he or she cannot verify independently of their own claim of fact. I hate, in… Continue Reading
This week’s question is a follow-up of sorts from last week’s. In that post, I discussed my transition from finding “Sex and the City” mildly enjoyable to finding it borderline contemptible. Part of it was a new appreciation for how… Continue Reading
Remember Bill Frist? Heart surgeon? Former Senate Majority Leader? Super-genius doctor, such that he could make an authoritative diagnosis about a condition totally outside of his specialty based on videotape of a patient he did not otherwise examine? (Except whoopsie,… Continue Reading
Have you ever been in a conversation with someone who had a good point to make, but went so over the top that they lost you anyway? Someone who, if they’d kept their arguments reasonable and their criticisms balanced, might… Continue Reading
I love politics. I’ve loved politics for years, going back at least as far as high school when I volunteered for the gubernatorial campaign of Mel Carnahan. (I got to go to his inaugural ball as a result, which was… Continue Reading