Wednesday: Stuff the Left Does that Drives Me Nuts

Busy, busy, busy, guys.  This is just a free form post of stuff the Left does that bugs the shit out of me.  For the record, I consider myself on the left -liberal side of the spectrum.  But my mind is not so wide open that my brains have fallen out. 1.) Blaming corporations for [...]

The rain falls on the just and unjust alike

Paul Krugman can say some dumb things for a pretty smart guy: Death Panels and Sales Taxes I said something deliberately provocative on This Week, so I think I’d better clarify what I meant (which I did on the show, but it can’t hurt to say it again.) So, what I said is that the [...]

Could you afford to fight?

“We have the best system of justice that money can buy. How much justice can you afford?” I was over at Ian Welsh’s blog reading Recissions and Denial of Care Under Obamacare when I saw this: ‘‘SEC. 2712. PROHIBITION ON RESCISSIONS. ‘‘A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health [...]

It’s enough to make anyone grumpy

I no longer remember to which kind blog I owe the enormous boon of finding Dr. Grumpy. At least once a day, sometimes oftener, his comments on life, neurology, and everything are laugh out loud funny. Today he’s on about insurance companies (go read the whole thing, it’s impossible to do it justice) and he [...]

Common Sense and the sensus communis: anatomy of an American pressure cooker

Gay-Lussac The pressure of a fixed mass and fixed volume of a gas is directly proportional to the gas’s temperature. This relationship is known as the Gay-Lussac’s Law and a pressure cooker is an example of the law in practice. Cooking under pressure creates the possibility of cooking with high temperature liquids because the boiling [...]

Uncle Sam Contracts Frater Magnus to Safeguard his Healthcare Liberty

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln There’s a sucker born every minute. – P.T. Barnum We, the People, are born every minute. The last ten [...]

Dennis Kucinich responds to The Greatest Speech On Health Care Reform EVAH!

This was posted in the comments earlier but it deserves to be on the front page.  Kucinich is a real liberal which makes him “unelectable” according to the media and the Democratic establishment. Yes, I know he endorsed Obama last year.  We all make mistakes.  Get over it. He is also a co-sponsor of HR [...]

We’re already paying for healthcare

Opponents of health care reform seem to focus on two main points – cost and “rationing.” It is an article of faith among Republicans that single payer health care will cost a lot more but will provide less health care. Near as I can figure they think there isn’t enough health care for everyone so [...]

This creek smells funny. How did we get here?

Imagine you were rowing your boat gently down the stream and one of the oars got caught in the hatch. What would happen? Logic suggests that the current would slowly move you downstream as you spun the boat in circles. O.K. Rowboats don’t have hatches, but Orrin Hatch is a creature and a feature of [...]

The “Racists are now ‘left of the left’ Oxymoron” (emphasis on ‘moron’)

Some of you may be wondering where I disappeared to.  I am sitting on the lanai of a rented condo in Maui, looking at a the clouds.  It’ll pass, I’m sure.  Today, we are taking the road to Hana.  It’s early morning here.  I finally got a decent internet connection.  I’ve been following the news [...]