The writing was on the wall last summer, Amanda

On Salon’s Broadsheet today is a post about NOW’s recent election.  It was the HOPEY/CHANGEY! candidate represented by Latifa Lyles versus the old, stolid and presumably boring,uneducated, working class sino-peruvian lesbian, Terry O’Neill (she’s actually not a lesbian, not that there’s anything wrong with that).  The old crone won by 8 votes.  Dr. Violet Socks [...]

Anti-Single Payer Trolling

The astroturfing of the blogosphere continues.  From “No Thank You” in the comments to my earlier post: Universal Health Care = Rationed Health Care Waiting lists are for dinner reservations, not doctor referrals. No, thank you. [...] I used to be a citizen of Canada. My wife died of IBC 15 months ago. She was [...]

Real Ponies Don’t Oink

Paul Krugman: America’s political scene has changed immensely since the last time a Democratic president tried to reform health care. So has the health care picture: with costs soaring and insurance dwindling, nobody can now say with a straight face that the U.S. health care system is O.K. And if surveys like  the New York [...]