Dear Mrs. Vera,
Can you please tell me the difference between Costco and Wal*Mart? I can never decide where to shop.
Regards,
Walton Brotman Anaheim,
Azuza, California… [Read more]
Dear Mrs. Vera: What’s the difference between Costco & Wal*Mart?
Questioning My Sanity, Part Duex
In case you missed the first installment: At 24 years of age, after an impressively protracted derelict adolescence culminated in broke, broken, homeless desperation bad enough to make me feel sorry about how I was living, I figured it was time to “get it together.” So off I went to my community college to begin a career in “mental health” work, to get my head out of my punk ass and serve people with much bigger problems than mine.… [Read more]
And the Lord Sayeth, ‘Your Health? Your Problem!’
In his fourth encyclical, Pope William I, spiritual head of the Church of Self Actualization, discusses the importance of “Christian Charity” and “Doing Unto Others” as long as there is a “Buck to be Made.”… [Read more]
ENCYCLICAL THE FOURTH
Questioning My Sanity, Part One
There was a time in my life, a painfully misguided detour into the depths of insanity, during which I lost my way. A term which I have used more than once in this column, “quarter-life crisis,” could be used to describe what I experienced, but with one catch: for most people, this is the time in their lives they spend staving off the impending doom of adulthood by avoiding responsibility and commitment at all costs.… [Read more]
My Summer of Ulcers: Amerikan Medicine In Action
I’ve grown afraid of turning into an armchair reporter. A search engine, a bag of English-class composition tricks, and a backlog of polysyllabic words I picked up from listening to too much Bad Religion as a kid; I’m only 3 articles into my stint with BNV and this formula’s getting old already. Maybe being a research monkey isn’t my thing after all.… [Read more]
