Tomorrow happens the L.A. Bike Summit , a bicycle-centric day with big goals! Organized by Joe Linton, aka one of the L.A. Creek Freaks, the Bike Summit will bring together people from Portland to New York to Mexico City with Angelenos to work on strengthening bicycle advocacy, growing bike organiza...

So I cut out of Alexander Technique class early so I can arrive on time to my 12:30 pm Torah class. I curse at other drivers on the road, particularly one guy ahed of mewho’s stopped and waiting for the opportunity to turn left over double yellow lines to enter a gas station. As I charge down ...

"Well-intentioned measures can go very wrong. Time to call out the disturbing hypocrisy directed at healthcare marketers." -- Dmitriy Kruglyak, MEng, The Medical Blog Network After reading a NYT story about PhRMA's recent policy to discourage giving swag to doctors ("No Mug? Drug Makers Cut Out Good...

Well, it’s just about over. Burkie finally signed with the worst team in the history of hockey. Full control in the self-perpetuated ‘center of the universe’. After telling a very obvious, bold-faced lie in the press conference stepping down from his post in Anaheim. None of this i...

At 11:45 a.m. as I was preparing to snag my beauty rest in the sun, I got a message that I could get a free lunch at a local shul that feeds the homeless. It seemed like a good deal at the time. I had no idea it was going to be a fleishig (meat) meal. I put on some pants and charge up the street. Th...

You know, three years ago, when you blog something quirky and you don't think twice (because you are just such a funny little unit) and that something you blog about is free hamsters (because your hamsters have just had a second round of babies, having eaten the first dozen babies), and you title yo...

I just got this comment from an anonymous source: "Did you hear about SP's 'Zetia 49 Plan'? Apparently they gave all their reps a wad of cash to throw at doctors . . . " Thinking this was just some kind of rant, I went over to the Schering Plough company board at Cafe Pharma and discovered this inte...

David Cay Johnston is a NY Times reporter who has written a new book called ‘Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick you with the Bill)’ that is getting a fair amount of press in the States. In addition to the typical targets like Wal-M...

achk! work! i don't wanna go! but on the good side of things, i don't have to make a lunch. we're having a pot luck. oooooo fun. richard is sposed to bring spaggetti..mmmmm. he's from new york and he's 100% Italian. The sauce he's making takes 6 hours. 6 HOURS to make a sauce thats gonna be eatin by...