By Gene Novogrodsky Cardiologist, listens, feels: ears, fingers. Pharmacist, shoots pills into plastic. Walkers and canes drag, are pushed. Adult care, day and overnight. Appointments, one helped in-out: respite. Obituaries, life in black and white on a quarter page. Elections, 2012, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, projected, demographics. World Cups, 2010, 14, 18, 22, 26, [...]

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Recommended reading The New York Times Magazine ran quite a rundown by Charles Duhigg on what we had suspected has been up with the credit card companies for quite some time: psychological profiling of its customer base. The Obama administration has proposed to do something about credit cards. We’ll see whose side it’s on. The [...]

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By Gene Novogrodsky Bob Dylan, out of the North Woods, Plays in a Minneapolis coffee shop, And the three coeds keep saying, “Man-eet-toba.” “Let’s go up there, right now,” one says. “Yes, to Man-eet-toba,” another says. “Come on. It’s only 11 now and we can be there by 3, night drive,” The third says. I’m [...]

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