THE ARCHIVE
OF DOC’S PRESCRIPTIONS AND OTHER WRITINGS
It is my desire that this archive of my writing will stimulate your learning and curiosity.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Imperfect: An Improbable Life – By Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
After 10 years, Jim Abbott retired in1999 with a career record of 87-108. Imperfect relates the spectacular story of [...]
Ernie Pyle (The Greatest Correspondent of World War II)
Ernest Pyle was the best-known, most beloved correspondent during World War II. My mother who was a journalist named [...]
Jane Addams, Great Reformer (1860-1935)
It would be fun to speculate why some of the truly great Americans are forgotten within one hundred years of [...]
Andrew Johnson
In May 1868, the Senate came within a single vote of taking the unprecedented step of removing a president [...]
ECONOMICS
Congressional Budget Office Warns of Impending Debt Challenge
The Peter Peterson Foundation reported the following based on the June 18, 2024 CBO report.Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) [...]
Trump Allies Draw Up Plans to Blunt Fed’s Independence
Today’s Wall Street Journal reported that Donald Trump’s allies are quietly drafting proposals that would attempt to erode the [...]
Income Tax Paid by Americans
The Wall Street Journal provided an overview of the income tax paid by Americans, broken down by income. Our [...]
China’s Growth Figures Do Not Add Up
Despite China’s boast that its economy grew at 5.2% in 2023, Greg Ip of the WSJ discounts that figure. [...]
GOVERNMENT
Majority of Biden’s 2020 Voters Now Say He’s Too Old to be Effective
A New York Times/Siena College poll revealed that even his supporters worry about his age. Among his supporters, 47% [...]
Biden Administration Weighs Increase in Corporate and Personal Income-Tax Rates to Pay for $3 Trillion Infrastructure and Jobs Package
The Biden Administration is evaluating a variety of possible tax increases, including boosting the corporate tax rate and the [...]
All White Democratic Primaries – 1944
Over the years I have mentioned that Blacks were effectively denied suffrage in the South until 1944. The fifteenth [...]
The Case for Eliminating or Keeping the Electoral College
Introduction: In recent years several people have expressed to me their desire for America to eliminate our Electoral College [...]
HISTORY
American Revolution 1775-1776
Introduction I recently heard a lecture by David McCullough on the first 18 months of the American Revolution. McCullough [...]
Just How Dangerous is Europe’s Rising Far Right?
Today’s New York Times highlighted the growing role of the far-right parties in Europe. Anti-immigration parties with fascist roots—and [...]
J Street Seeks a Middle Path on Gaza. Is That Possible Anymore?
Today’s New York Times wrote an article describing the purpose of J Street. The article raised the question of [...]
Japanese American Incarceration During World War II
Introduction I was not made aware of the internment of about 112,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who lived on [...]
MEDICINE
Team Tony Cancer Foundation wins Small Business Award
The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce awarded Team Tony Cancer Foundation the Small Business of the Year Award. For [...]
Rising Coronavirus Infections Weigh Heavily on Europe and the United States
The rapid escalation in the number of coronavirus victims has prompted policy makers in Europe and the United States [...]
Coronavirus Uptick Raises Alarms
The reclosing of eleven Apple stores in four states on Friday highlighted the growing concerns that the coronavirus is [...]
Economic numbers remain in doldrums
Over the past few days, economic releases have highlighted the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, we learned [...]
RELIGION
Pop Culture and Politics Propel Surging Stream of Antisemitism
“When systems fail, whether it’s the government or the markets or anything else, leaders often look for someone to blame. [...]
Kindertransport: Into the Arms of Strangers
I saw tonight a documentary, Into the Arms of Strangers. It focuses on the lives of 10,000 primarily Jewish [...]
Hundreds Rally in Paris to seek justice for murdered Jewish woman in France
Hundreds (sadly not thousands) of French Jews and their supporters in Paris called for justice for murdered Jewish woman, [...]
Protocols of Zion and Me
Introduction At some level I have been aware of the Protocols of Zion as early as my teenage years. [...]
SOCIOLOGY
There Are Not Enough Babies, Alarming the Whole World
Today’s Wall Street Journal (5/14/24) highlighted a startling demographic milestone. Specifically, the global fertility rate has dropped so precipitously [...]
Vanderbilt University Will Charge Some Students Nearly $100,000 in Total Expenses for the 2024-2025 School Year
Today’s New York Times reported that Vanderbilt University will charge some students nearly $100,000 in total expenses for the [...]
U.S Women Make Gains in Highest Paying Occupations but Still Lag Men
The Pew Research Center provided an overview of women in today’s U.S. Workforce. Women make up 35% of workers [...]
Mexico’s Gang Policy Spreads Grief
“People just ask themselves: Who can help us? Not even God?” Today’s Wall Street Journal highlighted a major problem [...]
SPORTS
How Colleges and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life
“I think the reality is that college athletics has become a profit maximizing endeavor for athletics administrators and coaches. And [...]
Imperfect: An Improbable Life – By Jim Abbott and Tim Brown
After 10 years, Jim Abbott retired in1999 with a career record of 87-108. Imperfect relates the spectacular story of [...]
Multiple Legal Abuses involving Florida State Football Player
On November 15th, the New York Times wrote an article Florida State Player Fled Crash but Got Only Traffic [...]
Baseball Highlights Since 1893
Introduction My Extra Inning: This fall there will be a television series that follows up on Ken Burn’s fabulous [...]
THE ARTS
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven remarkable compositions won him favor among the enlightened aristocracy congregated at Vienna, and he enjoyed their [...]
Marc Chagall
Eloise and I recently enjoyed the Chagall exhibit in San Francisco. He composed images based on emotional and poetic [...]
Will Rogers
Will Rogers (1879-1935) had what it takes to tickle the national funny bone. His keen wit and the ability [...]
OTHER
The Next Chapter
As I sit down to write my final article for the Sarasota Herald Tribune after 15 years as a guest [...]
Etymologies & Word Origins Part II
Booze It derives from the Middle Dutch verb busen; meaning to driving heavily, and first appeared in English as a [...]
Etymologies & Word Origins
Bigwig This term for an important person dates to c. 1731. It is a reference to the powered wigs that [...]
WERLIN FAMILY
Belated Letter to My Parents
Introduction This essay is dedicated to my parents, Dr. Joseph and Rosella Werlin. My father died in 1964 and my [...]
Doc’s 75th Birthday Speech
I want to thank all of you for participating in this celebration of life. I have enjoyed a [...]
Looking Back at 10 Years of Columns and of Life
I find it difficult to realize that I started writing “Doc’s Prescription” in March 2008. During the subsequent decade, [...]
Texas Jewish Historical Society: Rambling Round with Rosella
Rambling Round with Rosella by Vickie Vogel Texas Jewish Historical Society - May 2015 Rosella in Galveston, c. 1928. [...]
SPEECHES
Doc’s 75th Birthday Speech
I want to thank all of you for participating in this celebration of life. I have enjoyed a [...]
Why I Support AIPAC
I want to thank Dr. Ken Stein for taking time out from his busy schedule to share with us his [...]
Joseph Werlin Faculty Award at University of Houston
I wish I could sing the words to the musical Oklahoma, “oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a [...]
