Posts Tagged ‘Medical Care’
Reflections on Social Reform While My Only Son Is In Surgery
While most of the city is waking up, the doctor is putting my son to sleep. He’s six years old and doesn’t know what is happening to him. He only trusts his mom and dad when they say, ‘things will be okay,’ and then the doctor puts a mask over his little face and off to sleep he goes. The...
December 7th, 2009 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More
Breast Cancer Awareness
In the spring of my senior year of college, I made an S.O.S. call to my dad. I was doing my taxes on my own for the first time, and it wasn’t going well.
“Let me get this straight,” he said. “You’re getting an A in Calculus, but you can’t fill out a 1040 EZ form?”
I sheepishly admitted...
October 13th, 2009 | Essays, Featured | Read More
The Sticky Nature of Lawmaking
During last night’s Presidential debate, the issue of abortion came up toward the end. In my view, Barack Obama was a little weak on the issue, appealing more to pro-choice voters and barely touching on abortion being, at the very least, something we should strive to prevent.
Still, there was...
October 16th, 2008 | Blog | Read More
New Burnside Issue Is Up!
Here are some notes on the new issue:
- We have a bunch of reviews ready, but they’re not showing up on the main page. We’ll fix this tomorrow.
- We have a VERY good issue for you this week. I’m particularly proud, and partly because I spent a lot of time on the main article, which...
July 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More


