Len Zwelling

EXTRA: Ana Gonzalez-Angulo Trial to be covered by Oxygen Network on Sunday January 24 at 8 PM CST (368/1368 on cable)

A Reminder of Why I Love Houston AND What Has Been Lost By Leonard Zwelling          It’s snowing. Need I say more?          I am writing from the United Lounge in Reagan National Airport across the Potomac from Washington, DC on Sunday, January 17. We are waiting for the small plane to Houston and watching

Skin In The Game By Leonard Zwelling          In a critically important article in the NY Times on Sunday, January 10 called “Defying the Medical Machine,” Noam Schreiber describes efforts by a group of hospitalists in Oregon to organize in a union, not to protect their incomes, but to protect their patients. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/doctors-unionize-to-resist-the-medical-machine.html          Hospital

The Best and The Brightest Need Not Apply By Leonard Zwelling          I have noted a very concerning phenomenon.          It appears that every area of leadership is leaderless. There is corruption in sports to the point where a college football player can be deemed ineligible to play due to the sequellae of multiple concussions

EXTRA: Why Do They Invoke the Moon Shot? Because They Can! By Leonard Zwelling          If there was ever a doubt about the gratuitousness of the current President of the United States, it ended with his State of the Union message and his call to cure cancer in America.          It is far more likely

The Problem With Guns Is That It Is Not One Problem By Leonard Zwelling          Math homework was difficult. My father was an ace at math. He was an engineer and could always be depended upon to set me in the right direction yet not provide me with the answer when I appealed to him

The Truth About American Health Insurance: Not a Pretty Picture By Leonard Zwelling          The Obama Administration is proud of passing health care legislation in 2010, the famous Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare. I am not at all sure it should be because it is not at all clear that the ACA really makes health

Mr. Bill Meets The Donald: Oh No, Sluggo! By Leonard Zwelling          It was not bad enough that he of the golden mane and gimlet eye, the Lion of Trump Tower, is trying to lie his way to the Oval Office and doing a great job of fooling many of the people most of the

Movie Misnomers of 2015 By Leonard Zwelling          What a strange year in cinema!          You think you are going to one kind of movie based on the title, only to find once you have settled in with your popcorn, that a completely different film is before you. Of course, this is after the 20

Photons: All Energy and No Mass. QT and The Movies; RdP, BHO, and Reality By Leonard Zwelling          It is most unfortunate if you were not among those who saw The Hateful Eight in Ultra 70 mm Panavision and Cinerama during its one week Roadshow in 96 theaters around the US and Canada that began