We all have stories like this:
My friend L. recently quit a high-pressure job after 20 years to help her husband out in his solo architecture practice. She had insurance for herself, her husband and the kids through her job, so after resigning she paid for COBRA while she waited for her family to be [...]
In what sane country would you prosecute a straight-A student with no prior arrests, an obvious psychological problem and a 10-lb. bag of fertilizer for “attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction”?
CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (AP) — An 18-year-old accused of planning to bomb his high school will be charged with attempting to use a weapon [...]
February 25, 2008 – 8:58 am
Since we know for sure who one of the candidates is going to be in November, here is a new ad from VoteVets.org reminding us that our priorities are seriously out of whack and this known candidate wants to keep us mired in Iraq for a very long time. It is long overdue that [...]
December 18, 2007 – 11:25 am
The prez-gnat yesterday:
…And so we cut taxes. And I mean we cut them on everybody.
…
And the plan worked. If you think about where we were coming out of 2001 and where we are today, you can’t help but say the plan worked; cutting taxes helped stimulate economic growth. …And so we’ve had a pretty good [...]
December 13, 2007 – 11:43 am
Sometimes to find hope for the future we have to look to the past. In the excellent book Jewish Travellers, you can read the travelogue of Rabbi Benjamin ben Jonah of Tudela in Navarre, the most famous of Jewish travellers in the late Middle Ages. He finished the travels he describes in 1173:
[The [...]
December 3, 2007 – 11:04 am
How the Army treats its own:
In a nondescript conference room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside listened last week as an Army prosecutor outlined the criminal case against her in a preliminary hearing. The charges: attempting suicide and endangering the life of another soldier while serving in Iraq.
Her hands trembled as [...]
November 30, 2007 – 3:53 pm
When you allow your courts to charge 12-year-olds as adults, it’s hard to deny an 8th grader the right to passive suicide:
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — A few hours after a judge ruled that a 14-year-old Jehovah’s Witness sick with leukemia had the right to refuse a blood transfusion that might have helped him, the [...]
November 18, 2007 – 5:50 pm
This is an article from the September issue of Smithsonian Magazine, from their “Last Page” feature. For some reason, this article is not available online, so I am transcribing it here, because I think it is that interesting…
Enjoy!
;D
Livin’ Large
Everything’s bigger in America. You could look it up.
The total U.S. Food Supply provides 500 [...]
November 9, 2007 – 11:20 am
Sorry for the dearth of posts - L. and I have both been laid low by migraines this week, mine probably from the stress of knowing that in addition to my ultrapale skin and block-shaped head, I have also spun into his genetic code this damnable affliction. There is nothing worse on this earth [...]
October 19, 2007 – 11:32 am
When the SCHIP veto override failed, I was sitting at my office desk, trying to work while L. sniffled and coughed in the chair beside me and tried to get enough amusement out of his mp3 player not to be bored to tears. He came to work with me because he was too sick [...]
October 3, 2007 – 1:02 pm
Why can’t the lowlife brats pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, like our rags-to-riches president?
Don’t they know we’ve got wars to pay for? Mercenaries don’t come cheap, you know.
I guess if they want health insurance coverage, they should tell their parents to enlist. Or move to Iraq - don’t they have universal [...]
September 18, 2007 – 12:10 pm
Hillary Clinton has finally unveiled the heart of her universal health coverage plan, and, fortunately for the health insurance industry which has filled her campaign warchest, there is no way that it would ever make it through Congress with anything like universality; or, if it has universality, it will cost the federal government billions while [...]
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