I took a little ride in the country yesterday. Top down, I drove north out of Manhattan on the Palisades Interstate Parkway, to Bear Mountain and Harriman State Park, about an hour out of the city. Drove slowly around there for an hour, enjoying the lakes, trees, mountains and abundant...

There's one scene in Michael Moore's Sicko that I haven't yet seen anything written on, but it sure rang my bell. It wasn't something that bears directly on managed care, but it was a breathtaking comment, nonetheless. Moore asks a French person about their health care system, and the Frenchman...

The other night, I was trying to convince Big Mike that he should go see Michael Moore's movie, Sicko. Now, having any discussion on political topics with Mike is always, ummmmm, an adventure, because our views are so far apart. I'm off to the Left somewheres (why else would I...

Last weekend, I found myself sitting on a bale of hay, listening to a nutrition expert discuss how deadly milk and dairy products are for adult humans. Now, I've heard talks with that message before, and I consider myself well-read enough on the subject to separate the curds from the...

I don't know how much any of you know about military technology, so let me spell this out, because I KNOW you have an interest in our troops in harm's way in Iraq. UAVs are Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, what used to be called "drone" aircraft -- no pilots aboard, and...

I wish Cerberus Capital Management good luck trying to buy an 80% stake in Chrysler from Daimler-Chrysler. I certainly wish them more luck than I had last year when I tried to buy Chrysler. Oh, wait! I mean when I tried to buy A Chrysler. Until I heard that...

Are there any other fathers out there, as upset as I was by those images of a hysterical, disheveled Paris Hilton being handcuffed and shoved into the back of a police car, being driven off to jail crying and screaming for her mother? God, I hope so. I was completely...

Having been brought up in our bountiful nation, I suppose it is normal to think of all our freedoms as positive things, assuming you think about them at all. Look at our Constitution: Freedom of the press, of speech, of religion, of assembly. The whole document springs from our Founding...

Let's start with my conclusion: I sure wish I had stocks that went up as fast as gas prices have this year. Now, that's not an original thought. Nor was it the conclusion I expected for this piece. After writing about consumer and business issues for the past 30 years,...