PAUL CHRISTENSEN

Poor Gulliver, I feel sorry for him after he washes up on the Island of Lilliput and falls asleep only to awake tied to the ground by stout ropes. The Lilliputians are tiny men barely six inches in height, but smart enough to know how to handle an ominous giant. After he's released by the emperor, he fails to carry out some imperial missions against a neighboring empire and is impeached as a traitor. The original edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels came out in 1728

The grim news that a Texas judge declared that the ACA - i.e., "Obama Care," is unconstitutional filled cyber space last night. It was hard to trudge up the steps to bed and try to sleep. I'm covered with a good health insurance policy, but that didn't lessen the weight on my conscience about the plight of those who depend on the government's health insurance, especially those with"pre-existing conditions." Naturally, Trump cheered the news along with his supporters in Congre