I am comfortable discussing dementia, having seen it so many times in friends and clients over the years. Nonetheless, I attended a two-hour update yesterday. There are currently about 6.8 million Americans with dementia. 89% are cared for by a family member, 66% of whom are women. The five most common types of dementia are (1) Alzheimer’s early or late onset, (2) Vascular Dementia, (3)…
For years, I have cautioned my Democratic friends that the immigration issue was a cancer on the Democratic party, and because my Republican friends belong to the Party of No, there has been no hope of any compromise, at least not since Newt Gingrich was Speaker. Democrats view immigrants as human beings to be cared for, which requires a “comprehensive” solution, including housing, healthcare, education,…
We’ve had at least three “tech summits” where “tech titans” come to Congress and confuse legislators. In last week’s summit, the tech titans asked for better regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) , as sloppy regulation could destroy the tech sector and maybe the country. Sounds innocent enough! The previous tech summit was just a bitch-session, where my Republican friends complained that the mass media was…
On this date for the past twenty-two years, most adult Americans recall the horror of watching commercial airplanes crash into the World Trade Center and the subsequent collapse of those towers, killing almost three thousand people. Personally, I recall cars driving on sidewalks. While my office in Downtown Alexandria was in sight of the Pentagon, I didn’t see the plane crash into it. Of course,…