Walking out of an eye exam today, I had to ask myself, how is this going to work after the fall? I imagined all the paperwork behind the ordering and restocking of contact lenses and eyeglass frames, the association that got together to decide the things a person needs to know to be certified as […]

I used to cringe when someone would bring up that cute little anecdote about Thoreau’s night in prison after he refused to pay his taxes in opposition to war and slavery. I’d try to hold my tongue, but more often than not would slip into a diatribe against this sort of logic. Sure taxes fund […]