If “Millennials are lazy,” then why are “Boomers” dying in poverty?

Constantly, we hear about “entitled millennials” who want to own homes and “won’t work hard enough” to meet their goals. Goals of home ownership, starting a family, and other basic milestones most so-called “boomers” accomplished while working entry-level jobs. Now, they turn around and tell us that jobs that are far more advanced than the

Hotels Are Not Less Risky than AirBNB

I recently had to travel back home, three hours south in Florida, to see my doctors. I do this twice a year. I stayed in an AirBNB, as there are only a handful of hotels in my small town, and most AirBNBs are single-family-homes. Many are relatively new and nice. The people who live in

Put your Damn Earbuds in: The Newest Rude Trend I’ve Noticed in Cities

With the advent of “vines” and short videos on Facebook, I’ve noticed an increase in an insanely annoying, ultra-rude behavior that has become so common, it almost seems as if people think it’s socially acceptable: watching such videos on smartphones, in public, without headphones. The volume is typically set to full-blast. And this is something

How the “Opiate Epidemic” is Destroying the Lives of Innocent Patients

The “Opiate Epidemic” is a phrase that probably strikes some sort of thought, image, or emotion in the mind of any and every American at this point. The media has now spent the past several years railing on the producers of Oxycodone as if they literally shoved their pills down the throats of patients, all

The Ableism of Socialized Medicine

I lived under socialized medicine in Israel. Our healthcare is far better than that provided in the UK and Canada. We have better medical schools (which unfortunately means they have 100% match rates with US residencies, resulting in a brain drain) and we’re a smaller country with shorter wait lists. But those wait lists are

Why Disabled Living is Better in Small Towns Than Cities: The “LGBT” Version

A reader asked me to touch on another aspect of disabled living, particularly in small towns: that of “LGBT” individuals. It’s no secret that I’m bisexual. However, my take on this subject is not what you’d expect. It is something that I think should be said for the benefit of those who vilify conservatives, republicans,

Why We Need Law Students with More “Life Experience.”

People are shocked when I talk about the average or median age of most law school classes: most law students are in their early 20’s. Most other types of professional school programs skew much older: med school, for example. It’s very unusual to be 21 or 22 years old in medical school, in 2022. In

Spiting the Disabled: Apparently a New Trend for a Gen Z Sub-Sect

I was talking with one of the girls who helps me at home the other day. She’s one of two very nice college students I recently brought on to help me with the things I need around the house: cooking, cleaning, errands, etc. I feel like I’ve won the lottery: they’re timely, responsible, sweet, and

Anti-Semitism, Christianity, and Generation Z: Part 2

Last week, here, I spoke about an interaction I had involving an anti-Semitic question about my lineage. The question wasn’t innately anti-Semitic. As I explained, it has been asked honestly and genuinely in the past by others. It’s the response, or the follow-up, that informs me of the person’s intentions and why they’re asking. What

Having Crohn’s Doesn’t Give You License to Degrade the Disabled: The Spotlight on Crohn’s and Relevance to Disabled Child-Rearing

Crohn’s disease sucks. I want to emphasize and pre-face this blog with that statement because it’s true. I have family members who have it. I’ve had friends who’ve had both UC and Crohn’s. I have a scientific background in endo/rheum. I’m highly familiar with it. What gets me riled up is the current manner in