Martin Levowitz

Most middle-aged and older men come down with BPH: Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. Thesmall, lackluster prostate gland grows tired of being ignored, and needs, when it is older, like an apple, to be cored. One pees a lot more frequently; more slowly than before. You wake up many times each night and make the long walk […]

Our President inspires passionate frustration amongst his critics, myself among them. A woman in Sonoita, who had witnessed refugees awaiting asylum in Nogales, Sonora, expressed her deep contempt for Trump recently on Facebook and said she wished someone would off the lout. Shortly thereafter, the Secret Service showed up at her door, intimidating her and […]

The terms Liberal and Conservative used to mean something. Now they’re merely clumsy cudgels to berate those whom they name. Commentators on both sides of the news carry on like rude, spiteful children, ceaselessly demeaning the other side. Unless you’re content with predictable spin, you’d have to be loony to tune to Fox News on […]

Have you looked at the flesh of a nonagenarian lately? It looks like lifeless suet, full of bumps and scars, and stains. It’s not attractive, nor was it meant to be. When someone young – someone of mating age – looks at such flaccid and discolored flesh, the bio-message sent is DO NOT MATE! When […]

By now the mainstream culture knows what lots of us have always known: that emotional bonding with dogs, cats, horses, hamsters – even potted plants – is good for us and good for them. Such connection brings blood pressure down and allows us to feel less alone. I wish I could connect as well with […]

Well, almost 50 years have passed since I’ve apologized for being cynical. A savvy, older guy I knew, who later drank himself to death, rejected my apology, back then. “Oh, no, my friend” he said, “you’re not a cynic in the least. You are a disappointed idealist! You want the world to be a better […]

Our white genius in the stable oops – I mean our stable genius in The White House – often tilts toward negativity: criticism, mockery, nasty innuendo and belittling, disrespectful nicknames like “Little Marco,” “Crooked Hillary,” “Sloppy Steve,” “Fat Pig O’Donnell,” etc. (His bottom-line message seems always to be: “I’m smarter and richer than they — […]

One thing I’ve learned from personal experience with genuinely crazy people—mostly bipolar / borderline types—is that they quickly drive almost everyone around them batty, too. When nutjobs commit hostile, selfish acts, it’s hard not to be miffed. Most normal, so-called “healthy” folks would like to hold such others to account. We don’t quickly accept “unacceptable […]

Many basic spiritual injunctions are ignored because they seem blatantly unrealistic. Love thy enemy? Yeah, right! Can you picture a major sports-arena packed with rabid fans, each jacked up on adrenalin, and no one cares who wins? Moi, I cannot. There has been, through the past decades, in print and on the Internet, a spate […]

Isn’t it odd that a freely-occurring, natural substance can be declared illegal? Does that presume immoral, too? If cannabis is deemed illicit, what about sycamore trees, or the sky? If natural does not mean good, please, Uncle Sam, help me see why. Are you illegal? Or, am I? Does this suggest that God’s creation harbors […]