New Orleans        Recently Margaret Chan, the World Health Organization’s director-general, and NYC’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the result of the most comprehensive smokers’ survey ever.  They did so in New York because Bloomberg’s foundation helped pay the bills for the study, but more importantly because his health commissioner claims that the Mayor’s anti-smoking crusade …

New Orleans        Reading the feints and jabs between McCain and Obama over campaign financing and whether or not the two of them might bilaterally disarm their fundraising machines to accept public financing in the general election mainly makes me think about money.  It is hard not to conclude even at this very early day …

New Orleans        I know I promised to let this go, but it seems impossible to do so, especially when I have a chance to so quickly have a big fat “I told you so!”  The every mighty and authoritative New York Times threw in the towel yesterday on their preposterous and bizarrely dysfunctional system …