Archive for September, 2013

“. . . In Sickness and in Health . . .”

Those words have been a crucial part of every marriage ceremony I’ve ever attended. Yet, what do they really mean? Maybe it’s because I’m so much older now and I’m surrounded by people my age who are no longer in good health. Or maybe it’s because I’ve been exposed to more people aging, getting sick, and dying, that I hear so much about people running out on their marriages when their spouse is diagnosed with a terminal illness. I suppose …

OJ Simpson must still be living his glory days. At least in his own mind. At one time, he could do no wrong. Now he can do no right. He went from being in television commercials, one of the most admired players in football, to being at the center of a murder trial, to being arrested for armed robbery, to serving a 33-year prison sentence, to now being the butt of jokes about him stealing cookies from the prison chow …

Many people who are binge eaters don’t realize that this is an eating disorder that is even more common and more dangerous than bulimia. The difference between bulimia and binge eating is that with bulimia, you know that you have a disorder because it involves bingeing and then sticking your finger down your throat to induce vomiting. With binge eating, you may not even be aware that you are eating excessively because you don’t take laxatives or try to induce …

About twenty-five years ago, late at night, I stopped in at a restaurant that offered foods that were billed as health foods. It was one of those informal places that had a stripped down version of tables and chairs and you could either eat there or take your food with you in paper bags. As I said, it was late at night. I was the only customer and there was only one employee and as she was wrapping up my …

House Republicans pushed through a bill on Thursday that slashes $40 billion dollars from the food stamp program over the next 10 years. As of now, the food stamp program gives its recipients $4.50 a day, or $31 a week to live on. The CEO of Panera Bread, Ron Shaich, decided to spend a week trying to live on $4.50 a day and he made some disturbing discoveries. For one thing, his budget doesn’t allow him to buy foods like …

I applaud Gov. Jerry Brown who just signed a bill into law that allows children under eighteen to delete their dumb mistakes from their online accounts. California is the first state to require websites to allow minors to delete their own postings and to clearly inform them how to do so. Teenagers don’t have the emotional maturity to evaluate the consequences of their online actions and they may carry the stigma of rash postings all the days of their life. …

I’ve known a lot of judges in my day, both socially and as clients, but I can’t say that any one of them struck me as being funny enough to do stand-up comedy. Some of them had a sense of humor and had interesting cases that they talked about, but none of them were humorous enough to entertain an audience. Now comes the story of a judge who, for the last ten years, has been doing precisely that. He’s warmed …

The newest technology for monitoring your baby probably sounds like the best thing since sliced bread, but I don’t like the idea at all. If your baby is sick, it could have advantages, but if your baby is well, it takes away the joy of bonding with him or her. Enter a monitor that attaches to a baby’s ankle that looks eerily similar to the ankle bracelets that prisoners wear when they get out on parole. And it looks very …

Sometimes I think the people who are in charge of educating and motivating our children to learn, must take Stupid pills. There can’t be any other explanation for this kind of dumb behavior. The director of a public library wants to penalize a nine-year-old boy for reading too many books. He read 63 books in a month and a half so he could win the Dig Into Reading competition. Now this brilliant library director wants him banned from the contest …

I’m glad that I’m self-employed and that I don’t have a staff. I’m especially glad that I don’t have the onerous task of having to make the difficult decision of having to lay off employees. When you read about large companies having massive layoffs, you don’t see the individuals; you just see the numbers. And while the numbers are staggering, you don’t see the heartache of the people who have bills to pay and houses that will face foreclosure while …

Connie H. Deutsch

Archive for September, 2013

“. . . In Sickness and in Health . . .”

Binge Eating

McDonald’s Gets a Makeover

Shame on the House of Representatives

The Judge Does Stand-up Comedy

Baby Technology

Penalized for Winning Fairly

The Crippling Effect of Layoffs

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