Helen Hames: Divine disruption
Father Mark Sauriol and the Call to Rise Above Yourself
Comic – Sour Grapes: Messing
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Dr. Michael Fine: What’s crazy about Medicare Part D
Viewed from one perspective, Medicare Part D is intelligent social insurance, which pools the pharmaceutical costs of a population and allows people with few needs to subsidize those with more costly needs, so everyone can afford what they need.
Gerry Goldstein: A fine day for the mending of fences
National Mulligan Day falls on Oct. 17, and it’s about more than golf — it’s an invitation to redo whatever went wrong while there’s still time
Comic – Sour Grapes: Rainbow
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Comic – Sour Grapes: Birthday
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Dr. Michael Fine: What’s crazy about health insurance isn’t just what it costs
This year’s cost increases aren’t the real problem
Gerry Goldstein: Travels to an empire, with a duck
Netflix is casting a $2 million Monopoly game show. One contestant comes to mind.
Comic – Sour Grapes: Lefty
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Dr. Michael Fine: What’s crazy about hospitals and billing redux
From the You Can’t Make This Stuff Up But It Makes Your Skin Crawl Department.
Comic – Sour Grapes: Homework
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Gerry Goldstein: Name-dropping in America’s grand old game
Tommy John Surgery, Pesky’s Pole and the Mendoza Line: how ballplayers’ names get welded onto the game, for better and worse
Dr. Michael Fine: What’s crazy about who we lost in August
Ed Ehlinger, M.D. Wendell Berry, and Dolly Parton. These are three people whose lives made a difference to us and to me and to your health, three people we lost in August.
Comic – Sour Grapes: Cover
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Sailed away on the Block Island Ferry
Late August on the island with family, friends and a baby who won’t be a baby much longer — and why 12 miles offshore still rewards you for not being in a hurry
Comic – Sour Grapes: Affair
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Gerry Goldstein: Tiny steps that make life worth living (Or, please pass the ketchup)
Simpler creations – one of which debuted just a few weeks ago – make our lives more pleasant in the subtlest of ways.
Dr. Michael Fine: What’s crazy about COVID and flu vaccines in 2026
As we expected, the severity of Covid is trending down over the years, as more of us get more and more immune to it, and our herd immunity strengthens.
Comic – Sour Grapes: Itchy Pet
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Gerry Goldstein: Dark side of the Fifties gets a replay
For those of us who remember the rectitudinous McCarthy, a shiver goes up the spine when Trump vows to send his self-declared “communists” into exile.
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