Author: Terrance Heath

Sometimes you think you’ve lived beforeAll that you live todayThings you do come back to youAs though they knew the wayOh, the tricks your mind can play! “Where or When,” Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart “It seems we’ve stood and talked like this before,” goes the Rodgers and Hart lyric above, finally ending with a […]

It was quiet this morning, when I sat down to read the news, after seeing the rest of my family out the door. It was quiet this morning when I read about the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., died without realizing what he called “the cause of my life” — an […]

As the parent of a small child — who is apparently entering the “terrible twos” a few months early — I tend to put things in that context sometimes. What we’re seeing from the health care town halls, what we’ve seen from the "birthers" and what we saw during the campaign is essentially what I […]

Sarah Palin, and the Sarah Palins of American politics, have won a significant victory. If you want to know who has the last word on policy, look no further than her and what she represents Unless some significant shift occurs, the Senate Finance Committee’s decision to drop the end-of-life counseling provision from the health care […]

Recently, Mike Lux posed a question to GOP leadership: What will it take you condemn the hatefulness? Glenn Beck has said Barack Obama hates white people, and jokes about assassinating the Speaker of the House. Rush Limbaugh makes repeated and extended comparisons between Obama and Hitler. Mobs hang a congressman in effigy and physically attack […]

There is a simple answer to the far right’s new favorite chant against health care reform — "What’s Wrong With Pro

In an effort to defeat universal health care, conservatives are engaging in a campaign of lies that will ultimately cause more families to suffer needlessly at a most painful time. As someone who worked for years with end-of-life care issues, and spent years working in the HIV/AIDS community, I cannot let it pass. It’s easy […]

Henry Louis Gates and I are very different people. He is a Harvard Professor. The closest I got to the Ivy League was a weekend visit to Yale. He is a successful author. I am a blogger whose aspirations may outstrip his abilities. He is world renowned. I am, well, not. He is, most definitely, […]

From the beginning of this economic crisis, policy makers seem to have forgotten (or perhaps learned too well) a basic economic rule. It’s one I used to have paraphrased in a sign on my desk in a previous job: You can have it fast, you can have it cheap, or you can have quality. Pick […]

I scoffed when Bernie Madoff,through his  lawyers, asked for a twelve year sentence in his fraud case. What some people think they can get away with pales only in comparison to what some people are actually allowed to get away with — especially when the opportunity to hold them accountable and prevent further damage from […]