by design | Sep 19, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke By Dr. Jim Ferguson Some years ago, a friend told me that she once worked for a casino as a shill. I was clueless, so I went to the dictionary. Webster defines a shill as...
by design | Sep 12, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
“Let’s start at the beginning, a very good place to start…” —Maria from the Sound of Music By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’m a big fan of old movies, especially musicals. But then I’ve listened to Beethoven’s fifth and ninth symphonies at least 100 times with the same...
by design | Sep 6, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries. — Brutus from William Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” In 42 BC,...
by design | Aug 29, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Those who can make you believe absurdities; can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire By Dr. Jim Ferguson Years ago, when I was in traditional medical practice, I learned about TMI, defined by my nurse as “too much information.” One afternoon while going to my...
by design | Aug 22, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
“We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Aesop By Dr. Jim Ferguson Lately, I’ve been asking myself, is anything working? We live in the information age, but is it even reliable? One of my axioms (Fergisms) is to “Read widely, consider...
by design | Aug 15, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
It is not good for man to be alone. Genesis 2:18 By Dr. Jim Ferguson And just when you thought it was safe to go out, Fauci and his minions scream No! I remember the Charles Schultz Peanuts column where Lucy would promise Charlie Brown that she would hold the football...
