The World Series Begins...Always Bittersweet

It’s the culmination of each baseball season, and there’s a subtle, yet unmistakable added intensity to the players’ approach. It’s such a hard thing to describe but it can’t be missed. I look forward to sharing with other fans, the broadcasters and the players the way the highs seems higher and lows oh so much lower. There’s a definite bittersweetness about The Series first pitch being thrown, however.  The end of the season is just four wins from one of the teams away, followed by four-plush months of counting down the days until pitchers and catchers report. I’ll enjoy it while it’s here. Phils!

Political QuickHit…If we stripped away all influences on politicians – industry and association lobbies, etc. and could hit the mute button on the hyperbolic, and often irresponsible and dangerous, rhetoric spouting from the mouths of ‘journalists’, ‘experts’, and commentators meant to distract from the real issue – the answers about how to fix the healthcare system in this country would be clear. The point is that nearly one-fifth of the people in this country don’t have access to even the most basic kinds of care, and the price tag on care for individuals in this country is so wildly out of line with what the actual costs of those services should be. Sadly, of course, this simplistic approach to the work in which Congress is supposed to be engaged is an impossibility and one that those on The Hill would laugh at for it’s ‘naivete’. What’s laughable is that the future of profits for healthcare companies is having more influence on the direction of healthcare legislation than the future of access and cost of healthcare for the people of this country.

Who do the elected officials represent, again?

Some lyrical wizardry to engage the mind and lighten the mood…