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Posts published by “Steve Heilig”

America’s Top 15 Musical Figures?

Without music, life would be an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 Music (and other) geeks tend to make “best of” lists, sometimes every year. A…

Brautigan’s Rise & Fall

Richard Brautigan once observed that “It’s really something to have fame put its feathery crowbar under your rock and then upward to the light to…

Pain & Pain Medication

A lot of Americans are in physical pain. A lot of Americans are addicted to prescription pain medications. The two populations overlap, but are not…

Toxic Sugar Politics

Every morning I put about half a teaspoon of sugar in my coffee. Then I usually do that again. And I love it. That is…

Two Cheers For ‘Obamacare’

There's an old sad joke in health policy circles: A bigshot policy wonk, who worked his life away trying to get a good universal health…

A Scientific Hero’s Legacy

When I was a kid in Southern California back in the 1970s, I had a pal up the street whose dad taught chemistry at the…

‘Shepherds Of The Nation’

Despite my better judgment and sometimes sensitive stomach, I caught a bit of the latest Republican candidate debate the other evening. The one benefit was…

Contraception

Contraception exploded onto the front pages in February. That might seem strange to most people — what is controversial about contraception at this late date?…

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