A poignant letter to the New England Journal of Medicine should serve to focus our attention on the less sensational but more important component of Obamacare.

Every so often an especially cool co-ed chooses to enroll at my alma mater, which always gives me a frisson of satisfaction coupled with chagrin that I graduated too early.

Such flashes of pride serve to assuage the residual trauma attendant upon finding myself in the stands at a football game vs. Yale, when those rude Yalies uncorked a chant:"What's the color of shit?  Brown"

But I digress.

Attendant upon the catalog of horrors surrounding the latest school shooting atrocity, a peripheral editorial offense.

Multiple news outlets, when alluding to the perpetrator of this crime, have referred to him as "the gunman".

Now there are traditions in which at the age of 13 a male child is considered to have attained majority, and can serve as an adult for a variety of purposes.

Yes, I am a hypocrite, already on record chortling as big bucks Bloomberg shoved one up the NRA's ass. Call me pisher.

Today in a rare ( perhaps unique) demonstration of courage, New York's City Council overrode the mayor's veto and imposed long needed oversight on a police department intoxicated with ( if statistics are to be believed..) crime suppression success.