Entries from November 2009

November 20, 2009

how do heroin addicts do it?

After more than a year of chemotherapy, my precious veins are shot. Those inch-long needles have done some serious damage to my once-healthy blood vessels, and the oncology nurses have informed me that they probably won’t recover. Great. Stupid cancer is leaving a trail of damage in its wake. Before I started treatment in 2008, [...]

November 12, 2009

how roland burris punked the democrats & saved the public option

This is a piece that I wrote for TheRoot.com. Considering the events of the last week, though, I thought it was important to re-post it here. When Illinois Sen. Roland Burris took office almost a year ago, he already appeared to be a lame-duck politician. After being appointed by the shady Gov. Rod Blagojevich in [...]