Praise for Critical Care
“A sardonic, often harrowing look at the American way of life-support.”–Kirkus Reviews
“A bitter and disturbing, though often very funny, first novel with a sensibility that Dr. Strangelove fans will recognize.” — Beryl Benderly, Washington Post Book World
“A scathingly funny black comedy … almost impossible to put down.” –Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post Dispatch
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The Baby Boomers Are Arriving In Montana
By Richard Dooling Originally published in the Wall Street Journal In the 1950s and ’60s, when televisions had three channels, the “Davy Crockett” series about the fearless frontiersman was so popular that Disney sold 5,000 imitation coonskin caps a day. I wore one of those caps for several summers. My wife, Kristy, didn’t wear a Polly Crockett cap—same coonskin design made of faux white fur—but we were both fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books and […]
Has A Witch Spirit Taken Over Your Soul?
The issue, then, is whether a witch person, or witch host would always know he or she had a witch spirit. The Mende disagree on this point, and so do the anthropologists. Some say that when a witch enters a village, it is like a powerful sound in a room filled with tuning forks. Or let’s use a Mende proverb: Hinda a wa hinda. ‘Something brings something,’ or, even better, ‘Like brings out like.’ In […]
Justice Holmes Teaches The First Amendment
Originally published in The Wall Street Journal. The more certain you are, the more you should resist the temptation to silence those who disagree. If you are absolutely certain that President Trump is or is not an idiot, that climate change is or is not the most pressing problem of our age, that abortion is or is not murder, that football players should or should not be allowed to kneel during the national anthem, that […]