by design | Sep 8, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Judicial Activism If you want to write laws, run for office. Laura Ingraham By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ll admit at the start of this essay that I’m not a legal expert, and perhaps I’m in over my head with this topic. But that’s OK because I’m writing from the perspective...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Obsession To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. Thomas Paine By Dr. Jim Ferguson Where do they find these corporate “marketeers?” I’m not talking about the old Disney Mouseketeers, who knew their...
by design | Aug 25, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Vacation By Dr. Jim Ferguson Is the notion of a vacation irrelevant if you are retired and every day is a holiday from work? I retired from medicine after 45 years and a lifetime of meeting schedules. But now the publisher’s deadline for this weekly column is my only...
by design | Aug 18, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Consequential By Dr. Jim Ferguson I was 12 years old when I first visited Washington, D.C. I was a sixth grader then and part of my elementary school’s safety patrol trip. I remember little of that experience except climbing the 897 steps of the Washington Monument....
by design | Aug 11, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Bots By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes the most difficult thing about writing is composing the first sentence because it’s difficult to know where to start. In “The Sound of Music,” Maria was having a difficult time teaching the Von Trapp children how to sing. So she...
by design | Aug 4, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Human I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. Albert Einstein By Dr. Jim Ferguson School has started for my grandkids, and I tell them school is where you go to learn how to learn. In other words, you learn the tools for a...
