OPINION
Dispatch from sardine class
By Thomas Sporn | April 1, 2011Things have only deteriorated in the Middle East since I left home. Can we possibly be involved in three separate foreign conflicts?
Things have only deteriorated in the Middle East since I left home. Can we possibly be involved in three separate foreign conflicts?
“The toad beneath the harrow knows/exactly where each tooth-point goes/the butterfly upon the road/preaches contentment to that toad”- Rudyard Kipling
In the days following the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords in Tucson, it has become apparent that her assailant is bereft of any coherent political ideology, mentally ill and more Mad Hatter than...
Skeletons molder in most of our closets. They certainly do in mine, and there are some real beauties, and the ones I can actually share with you include the truly odious—I proudly pulled the lever...
In the waning weeks of 2010 and with Thanksgiving around the corner, I became reminded it’s been a tough year.
Pathologists, and surgical pathologists in particular, are in the business of frequently giving bad news to their clinician counterparts, and by extension to the patients they serve.
Washington, D.C. of the 1960s was a pleasant place to grow up and had much to offer. Four seasons to enjoy the outdoors, the Smithsonian, other museums and art galleries and the majestic halls of...
Once the medical part of the homicide autopsy was completed, or at least the part that involved the documentation and classification of injuries, the evisceration of the body and macroscopic...
The honking began first as a series of peevish, staccato beeps, then finally a sustained, angry drone. The grandmotherly type at the wheel of the huge sedan right directly behind me was going...
I’m not much of a television watcher. There are collegiate sports and the yearly surfeit of professional bike racing with the European spring classics and the Tour de France and the spectacle of...