Among other Great Society initiatives, LBJ signed into law Medicare, Medicaid, and the Mental Health Amendments of 1967. The purpose of that last was to move the mentally ill from remote, jail-like asylums to community-based treatment centers in order to provide better care and to recognize the dignity of people so afflicted. We regularly hear about the funding of Medicare and Medicaid, yet nothing about funding for community-based mental healthcare. Congress failed.

If we can manage business and enter combat using secure digital communications, why can’t Congress do the same? Our US Constitution called for representative government. A Senate for representing States regardless of size and a House for representing people according to population. …

If a child dies before a parent, was that child lost? Odd question perhaps, but I think one of consequence. Touches on how life and death are related to our definitions of family and childhood. Odd perhaps on Father’s Day to consider, unless you have suffered like Joe Biden (father…

I don’t think most of us should register for a political party. Here’s why. When registering to vote, I was asked (well, insofar as a piece of paper can ask) to choose a political party. Given that no listed party in my state aligned wholly with my political leanings, I…