What’s News? What’s Opinion? BY Leonard Zwelling It used to be easy to discern what was news and what was editorial opinion. They were on different pages of the newspaper. Now that so many get their “news” on the Internet where the separation may be less clear, the two begin to blend. Factor […]
Crowds By Leonard Zwelling This op-ed by Abigail Shrier in The Wall Street Journal on June 6 makes a very critical point about the hypocrisy governing America’s response to the coronavirus and to the death of George Floyd. In the first case, we were told to hunker down, stay out of crowds, and particularly
Why “#BLM” Matters. A Personal Journey To Partial Wokeness And The E Word, Equality. By Leonard Zwelling It’s been with me my whole life. That is the issue of racism in the United States and in my own existence. Even today it is both hard to face and hard to write about, but I’ll
How Did One Death Do What 100,000 Couldn’t By Leonard Zwelling The funeral for George Floyd in Houston will be a solemn affair. The protests in response to his death at the hands of the Minneapolis Police started off peacefully, but it is likely that the peaceful protesters were infiltrated by extremists from the
Dr. Pisters, Dr. DePinho, This Is My MD Anderson By Leonard Zwelling https://www.medp does as agetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/healthpolicy/86818?xid=nl_secondopinion_2020-06-02&eun=g1139137d0r This article by Francois Furstenburg of Johns Hopkins does a pretty good job of describing the plight of academia in 2020. In a word, it’s corporatization. Many university and academic health care systems have been converted into profit-making
It Must Be 1968 By Leonard Zwelling The country is in turmoil. The cities are burning. A viral contagion has emerged from Asia that threatens to kill millions and the occupant of the White House is besieged. Is this now or 1968? There was the Hong Kong Flu in 1968 that did kill
An Appallingly Insulting Music Video By Leonard Zwelling They arrived in my email almost simultaneously. The first link was to one of the most appalling ideas I have ever seen, a music video featuring the administrative leadership of MD Anderson dancing and laughing, often without masks. (However one sequence featured masked dancers so
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The Coronavirus Is New. Our Reaction To It Has Been Years In The Making. By Leonard Zwelling There really is little doubt that the coronavirus that has caused so much death and suffering in the world emanated from Wuhan, China towards the end of 2019. Had the Chinese Communist Party and the government of
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Everybody’s Talking. No One Is Listening. By Leonard Zwelling Another week and another town hall at MD Anderson. As usual, the talking heads spoke for more than 50 minutes leaving little time for questions, none of which were spontaneous. It’s a time-honored way of seeming to be inclusionary when in fact being the exact
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The Letter By Leonard Zwelling I got a real letter today. And I don’t mean an email. I mean a real envelope with my name on it with a stamp and everything. It was addressed to my house. Well, almost everything. It had no return address. I have no idea who sent this to
