I was in a grocery store the other day and the head of the produce department told me not to refrigerate avocados else they will turn black inside. Anyone who loves avocados as much as I do knows that is not true. Avocados are one of the most fridge friendly fruits in existence. The only [...]

The Sacramento Bee ran a great multi part story on health care reform today with an equally great back story about a local Sacramento man who is fighting the system to get the cancer surgery he needs to live.  As usual, the usual responders were out in force to either: 1) Blast the cancer victim [...]

I am NOT mortified by the $30,000 hospital bill UCD Med Center sent to Scott Hawkins’ family for his brief emergency room stay, as reported by the Sacramento Bee today. I was mortified by the brutal nature of  Scott’s death, and I was mortified by the response to Scott’s death in some circles, but I [...]

Last Sunday was a day of reckoning for this Joe. Shortly after breakfast I felt a sharp pain in my upper abdomen. Unrelenting. Highly uncomfortable. This was about the third or fourth time I had experienced this exact sort of pain in the past year. I knew its pattern by now: all day steady pain, [...]

In a cleverly-worded article today, the Sacramento Biz Journal is reporting that Sacramento has garnered the distinguished honor of having the “12th best carbon footprint” in the country. What their headline doesn’t say is that Sac is ten places behind Los Angeles! That means Sac residents are spewing more filth into the air per person [...]