In the coming weeks, roughly 17,500 of the brightest medical minds in America will don their gowns and mortarboards and be formally welcomed as the latest initiates into the fraternity of practicing physicians. The ceremonies celebrating the accomplishments of these… Read More ›
Florida
Different Shades of Black: A Conversation About Race & Class in America & Abroad
On the day that I happened to visit Tallahassee last summer, a group of student activists who call themselves The Dream Defenders were going into their 3rd week of physically occupying the lobby to Governor Scott’s Capitol office in protest… Read More ›
Days 28 & 29: I Visited Florida, So Can I Go Now? OKThanksBye
Look…I’ve been to Disneyworld and my family went to Captiva Island for Spring Break when I was a kid and, yes, Resort Florida is lovely. And, from what I’ve heard (but won’t be experiencing, at least on this trip) Miami… Read More ›
The Deep South: Geography as a Risk Factor
Red America forms a thick, inland L in the flat midsection of our country, bordered as much by geography as by political preference. The Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River shepherd the younger constituents of this conservative nation-within-a-nation down towards the… Read More ›
Why is Ernie Trying to eat Rubber Ducky’s Face Off? A PSA About Bath Salts
Let’s make something perfectly clear from the outset: bath salts and “Bath Salts” are not the same thing. The former can be dropped into a tub of hot water and will infuse your bathroom with delicious top notes of vanilla… Read More ›
Sensing a Pattern Here?
Courtesy of the National Association of People With AIDS and the blog From Here To Eternity (www.dgsmith.org) is a map of the states that contain the 2,357 HIV positive Americans who are still on ADAP waiting lists and still with… Read More ›