Len Zwelling

Why Move The Israeli Embassy Now? By Leonard Zwelling Why is the operative word? There is no doubt that Mr. Trump’s latest flippancy, moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, is going to cause a stir. I suspect that is just what he wants. It will shore up his (and Roy Moore’s) evangelical base […]

Flynn Down Faster Than Chin By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/health/article/Chin-wife-of-M-D-Anderson-president-to-take-UT-6176250.php It took until April of 2015 to finally remove Lynda Chin from the ranks of the MD Anderson faculty according to the above article in the Houston Chronicle. It took less than a year to take Michael Flynn from National Security Advisor to felon. Maybe the

The Tax Bill Is Why No One Trusts Congress By Leonard Zwelling You don’t need a PhD in economics to understand a few simple truths about the proposed tax reduction bill making its way through the Congress. If you cut taxes, the government is going to take in less money. Thus the deficit and the

Convocation: Hope And Change By Leonard Zwelling The trumpets are gone. There was no brass of any kind. The band was a guitar, a flute and a violin. The New Agey sounds were only interrupted by the recorded martial music for the presentation of the colors. This was the MD Anderson Faculty Honors Convocation of

Go Away: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi By Leonard Zwelling Lewis Black, my idea of a modern philosopher, recently suggested that when you lose, you go away for a while. It seemed to work well for Al Gore. He went away after having lost his presidential bid and wound up winning an Oscar and

Does Talent Trump Bad Behavior? By Leonard Zwelling The list goes on. Prominent figures in entertainment, politics, and business are admitting (at least some are) to having misbehaved in a terrible fashion. It is only men to date, but bullying behavior knows no gender bounds and it is only a matter of time until some

Good People, Good Organizations By Leonard Zwelling What does good mean when it defines a person? We usually think of good people as selfless, considerate, polite, respectful and willing to put their own well-being behind that of another fellow human. They are ethical and moral and, of course, law abiding. It is getting harder to

Young FrankenMoore By Leonard Zwelling Dueling offenders. That’s what the latest game in Washington, DC seems to be. First, we had Roy Moore. He was relieved of his duties as Alabama’s chief justice—twice and then beat the Trump-backed Sessions successor Luther Strange in the GOP primary for the vacant Senate seat. He seemed like a

What #MeToo May Really Mean To MD Anderson By Leonard Zwelling Perhaps it comes as no surprise to all the women out there. Men have been abusing them by flaunting their power. The women were stuck. Their livelihoods might depend upon keeping a job that came with an abusive and perhaps sexually abusive boss. No

The Sloppy Mess That Is The US Cancer Program: Was DePinho On To Something? By Leonard Zwelling There is a national cancer program. There has been one since the federal legislation of 1971 that began the War on Cancer. However, I defy anyone to tell me exactly what it is. For if we have a