Oct 01 2009
Not original with me and only tangentially related to ME-interests, but worth repeating nonetheless… Although efforts have been made to reform the healthcare industry since 1912, we should not be too hasty in enacting change. The federal government has no business interfering in people’s healthcare decisions, unless a woman is trying to terminate a pregnancy, …
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Aug 30 2009
I’m almost finished with Charles Pierce’s “Idiot America — How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free” (Doubleday, June 2009). Just read the chapter on the 9-11 fiasco and the “sexing up” of the Iraq war and I’m so angry right right now that I feel compelled to share the following links …
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Aug 28 2009
…that the right wing of this country is certifiably, well, certifiable… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0OUXkZO8vE Still not convinced? Keep watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgSBumvA11M
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Aug 12 2009
An open letter to our suddenly-in-the-spotlight (and loving every minute of it) blue dog democrats: On the subject of healthcare reform, where exactly do you stand? We now know what you’re against, but what are you for? And just who is informing your finger-in-the-wind, myopic views on the matter? The insurance and pharmaceutical giants who fight …
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Jun 04 2009
Friends, I’ve been on this soapbox for many years now, but if you still insist that the hard-core beliefs of the fringes of American Christianity have no bearing on events on the other side of this space-traveling mudball, then read this interesting bit: http://blog.sojo.net/2009/06/03/the-day-i-got-left-behind/
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Apr 27 2009
For the sake of argument, let’s suppose torture works… For the sake of argument, let’s also suppose that 9/11 was inevitable. Let’s suppose that it wasn’t a circus of errors and missed opportunities and hot pursuits that were allowed to grow cold. Let’s suppose that the CIA and the FBI were a model of harmonious …
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Mar 14 2009
My pastor John, methinks, probably wonders if I too often connect disparate ideas and events by the thinnest of threads. There is an old tradition in the Middle East regarding when the feasts of Ramadan begin and end; as long as there is enough daylight to discern between a black and white thread, fasting must continue. Once they …
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