Kaci Hickox has done her good deed. She went to Africa and helped people suffering from Ebola. Now she just wants her life to get back to normal. Immediately. You can forget about a three week quarantine for this modern day Florence Nightingale. The Clara Barton of the Sierra Leone made it crystal clear that no mere politician is going to tell her what to do. She lawyer-ed up to avoid spending three weeks in isolation out of concerns for public safety because, as she put it, Governor Chris Christie isn't a doctor. Neither is she, but that's beside the point. She knows what's best for her. Screw the general public. We're completely irrational to be afraid that a contagious disease with a high mortality rate and for which there is no known cure has come inside our borders for the first time in American history. Right? I know what my problem must be -- obviously, I'm just jealous. After all, Kaci figured out a way to experience her 15 minutes of fame. The New York Times. Meet the Press. The Huffington Post. Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC. The BBC. Even Saturday Night Live got into the act, adding to her claim to fame. In stark contrast, I've written five books that have been published. Three of them even won an award, and still almost nobody knows who I am. The best I've managed to do thus far was a brief interview by the American Thinker people on the Dennis Miller Radio Show and a few one-hour long interviews with Dr. Robert Rose on his web blog radio show. Pathetic, by comparison. I haven't even been asked to write an op-ed for the Dallas … [Read more...]