The Congress goes on summer recess at the COB today, but something tells me this will be a working vacation. Keep your Blackberry’s charged. The health care reform debates march on. It’s just breaking up into small group discussions, state-by-state, city-by-city, county-by-county. This conversation is going local and the President will probably take a piece [...]
Just this month O Magazine featured a house tour of Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s mansion on Chain Bridge Road in Palisades, an affluent neighborhood in Washington, DC. Sadly the virtual O Magazine tour is the only opportunity Cafritz or anyone will ever have to see her home and her art collection again. Last night the entire [...]
Thursday is the big day. President Barack Obama pops a brew with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gates’ arresting officer Sargeant James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department at the White House for an informal chat about…..health care reform. Wouldn’t that be interesting (!?). But this is supposed to be a “teachable moment” [...]
E. LYNN HARRIS (1955 – 2009) Another incomplete 5th Inning. Thursday, July 23, best-selling author E. Lynn Harris died at age 54. E. Lynn Harris may not have coined the phrase “down low,” but his fiction certainly aired out the closets of affluent, gay and bisexual African American men and the women who love them. [...]
Ah! It’s Health Insurance Reform. This makes a big difference in how we debate health care. There are issues related to the “care” and there are issues related to the coverage [read costs.] Perhaps “Health Insurance Reform” should’ve been articulated long before the August deadline was set; though big insurance would probably interpret that as [...]
