Physician David Agus puts forth a lot of controversial ideas in his book The End of Illness. "A good pair of shoes will go a long way to protect you," Dr. Agus blogged on The Huffington Post. Putting cushioning inserts into your ill-fitting dress shoes or...

Just when the post-election theme of lying seemed to be receding into the background, the revelations about General Petraeus' affair became our national obsession. And post-Petraeus, there will certainly be another incident in which someone who's supposed to be a hero self-destructs in a web of lies and deception.

If dysfunction is the winner of the 2012 presidential election, as Joseph Lelyveld predicted, then the enterprise of lying has to be a close runner-up. Even with the election behind us, accusations are still flying about who lied the "mostest" and "worstest." Truthfulness and "truthiness" became yet another...

Phew. The political TV and advertisements have stopped. So have the "robocalls." Best of all, the political commercials are off the air now. What's left in the wake of the elections are winners and losers. Which is exactly what political elections produce. Ditto for the personal campaigns that play out...

Remember the old saw, so popular among baby boomers, "do what you love and the money will follow"? The idea behind it gave us hope -- hope that work was more than a path to material success, that it was about doing something meaningful. Spiritual, even. Work was good for...