Len Zwelling

I’ll Vote For Amy By Leonard Zwelling          I believe that early voting for the Texas primary starts on Tuesday. As usual, I will be there bright and early, ready to cast my ballot in the Democratic primary. I have voted in the Republican primary in the past because in Texas you need not register […]

Shadows And Light: 2020 Gets Clearer By Leonard Zwelling          It is the best live album ever released in my opinion. It’s Shadows and Light by Joni Mitchell. It’s a recording of a 1980 concert in Santa Barbara that was part of her Mingus Tour. I was lucky. I saw this concert in 1983 at

Nancy Pelosi Is To Donald Trump What Wile E. Coyote Is To The Road Runner By Leonard Zwelling          Safes, anvils and TNT not withstanding, Nancy Pelosi has rendered herself a cartoon character and my readers are asking me to address this. So, I shall. No matter what she tries to do to one-up Donald

What Just Happened?: The Historical Perspective Of The Non-Trial By Leonard Zwelling Trump got off. We always knew he would. The only thing the country really wanted was a fair airing of the case. It got an airing. It wasn’t fair because it was incomplete. It was the Law without the Order. Mitch McConnell has

Send Jimmy Carter To Iowa, A Third World Country By Leonard Zwelling By the time I post this on Wednesday, February 5, the partial results of the Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus should be known. As of this writing, Sanders, Warren, Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar are all saying they had good nights. (It looks like it’s

I Think I Know Why I’m Depressed By Leonard Zwelling It has been gnawing at me for almost two weeks now. As a former clinically depressed patient, why did I feel that awful black dog surround me again. It doesn’t really surround me as much as it seems to emanate from within. But why? Because

Man’s 4th Best Ho$pital By Leonard Zwelling For internists of a certain age, there is a book more important than any textbook of medicine ever was or will be. The age includes those who trained at academic medical centers in the 1960s and 1970s. The book is The House of God by Samuel Shem (real

Witnesses And… By Leonard Zwelling The operative word in all politics today is AND. Joe Biden has the most experience and…. Bernie has the most loyal followers and… Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and… The GOP will never convict Trump with 67 Senate votes and… It’s what comes next that matters. And no

Image Manipulation: A Relatively New Form Of Research Misconduct By Leonard Zwelling The wizard men curing breast cancer After blogging for these many years, I have found that I get ideas from many different sources. Admittedly, the news—print and electronic—is the most frequent source of inspiration, but sometimes it is emails from colleagues and readers. This

The Senate Is A Collection Of Weasels By Leonard Zwelling The decision time is nearing. The Senate, and more importantly individual senators, will have to decide how they want to be remembered in history. Will they be footnotes and acquiesce to Donald Trump’s demands that he be declared innocent without a real trial or will