My novel, Joe Peas, features a plucky Italian housepainter who encounters a harried family physician. A large part of the story occurs in a long-term care facility. Under the category of “unintended consequences,” my fictional facility, The Center, became an important part of the story. Statistics indicate that fifty percent of our population will at some point in their lives need the services of long-term care. Given that, even a larger portion of our population will have a

When did we as Americans lose control? When did those of the intelligencia decide that the common man was incapable of choosing his leaders? For me the day is obvious. It was October 15, 1992. I can even tell you where this happened. It wasn’t on the floor of congress or on the battlefield, or even in a government office with the signing of a law or treaty. It was on a stage in Richmond, Virginia at the site of the second presidential debate of 1992. The debate featured