Last week was Thanksgiving. A day to give thanks, be home with family and enjoy a good meal. For most that is. Some gave thanks by showing up to a shelter and feeding the less fortunate. I really respect those folks. Something different about them. They understand what it means to share, to have real gratitude. Have you ever…

Are you ashamed or bothered if someone calls you a loser? It’s an insult after all. Or is it? Somewhere along the way, losing became a bad thing. So bad that people are emotionally compromised if someone calls them this. There was a song by Beck in the 90’s where the chorus was “I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?” Losing must be pretty bad if the only other option is death.

When did losing…

Last year, the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) released a study that showed Big Pharma spends more on ads pushing lower benefit drugs than high benefit ones (after reviewing the top 150 prescriptions in 2020). This led to a few journalists in Forbes and other sources to write some stories questioning why we are seeing so many of these commercials now. Vox thinks drug companies are trying to get people to learn the names of the drugs, and then get a more or less vague idea of what they do or at least what type of body part or condition they work on. The general consensus is…