Len Zwelling

Taking Care With #MeToo By Leonard Zwelling The revelations surrounding the awful behavior of Harvey Weinstein along with similar boorishness by James Toback, Bill Cosby, Mark Halperin and Kevin Spacey, have in turn led to an outpouring of complaints about the bad behavior of men toward women in the workplace and elsewhere all over the […]

What’s Really Happening With The Recent Appointments At MD Anderson: My Speculation By Leonard Zwelling That there should be a lot of rearranging of the deck chairs at MD Anderson should come as no surprise. Whether or not this is another sailing of the Titanic or a new ship of state remains to be seen,

Formal Authority Is Not Moral Authority By Leonard Zwelling Tom Friedman was a guest on Meet The Press on Sunday, October 22. He made a distinction between formal and moral authority. He made it simply. President Trump has formal authority, but has no moral authority. That is why he had to send out General John

Rage Begets Wrath; Wrath Begets Depression By Leonard Zwelling I have been wondering why I seem so blue since Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston. We were lucky. Our house was one of those that did not incur damage. All cars were intact. Yes, I need a new roof, but it was getting about that time anyway.

Jeff Flake-An American Hero By Leonard Zwelling At 2:30 PM on Tuesday, October 24, I learned that the junior senator from Arizona, Jeff Flake, would not be running for re-election in 2018. He was following the lead of Senator Bob Corker (R-TN). Both men had had enough of Capitol Hill. I understand. It only took

The Leopard And The Furrier By Leonard Zwelling I had a friend. I haven’t seen or spoken with him for a while, but he made an indelible impression upon me earlier in my career. He had a favorite saying about observing their behavior. “The leopard doesn’t change his spots until he hears the furrier coming.”

Pants On Fire By Leonard Zwelling It is no longer shocking to learn that the current President of the United States is a big, fat lying liar. His latest flap about what his predecessors did with regard to communicating with the families of fallen soldiers is only that. His latest. He has taken the combination

Manhattan: Necessary, But Only In Small Bites By Leonard Zwelling I was raised on the south shore of Long Island, the fish-shaped appendage that drapes east of Manhattan. It contains some real New York City (Brooklyn and Queens) and some OyLand as in Lawng Oyland (Nassau and Suffolk Counties). I lived in Nassau but frequented

Awe, Sorrow, And Anger At National Monuments To Our Darkest Days By Leonard Zwelling Where were you when…? For the parents of the Baby Boomers, the Greatest Generation, it’s Pearl Harbor. For us Boomers, it is the Kennedy Assassination. For our kids and for us, too, it’s 9/11. Each of these crucial upheavals in normal

Had MD Anderson Only Had A Corker By Leonard Zwelling One of the most reasoned voices that I heard while serving on the staff of the US Senate was that of Senator Bob Corker (R-TN). Whenever I was in a meeting or hearing with the relatively new senator at the time (it was 2009 and