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The leadership void
I got around to watching a PBS Frontline episode on the Obama administration. It begins with the 2008 campaign, showing us footage of various Obama speeches, and ends with his second inaugural address....
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Obama miffs [update] [update 2]
How to screw your constituency while pretending to be its benefactor? Oh, that would be Barack Obama. He’s keen on throwing us old farts under the bus to curry favor with bastard Republicans. That’s...
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Bastard Baucus [update]
No one in Congress has done more to screw the Rest of Us while lining his own pockets and those of his benefactors. Writing for the New York Times, Eric Lipton reports on Montana Senator Max Baucus: No...
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Infuriating Obama
The G.O.P. would prefer that the poor and infirm get lost, as in out of sight out of mind. Their existence serves as a constant reminder that the great American experiment fails many, if not most, of...
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Catholic crap
Two items in today’s papers involving the Catholic Church. Both expose the stubbornness, insensitivity, and hypocrisy of the Vatican and its doctrines. One reports that UW Medicine has signed an...
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If only…
Walk or run? I used to do the former but am now confined to the latter. As it happens, my prior running days may have had much to do with a thinner self, as this article suggests. Now—with the advance...
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The bugs will win
The leap-frogging of antibiotics to bugs to antibiotics and so on promises ultimate failure, with the bugs taking the victory flag as the last humans die off or mutate into—you guessed it—bugs. Filed...
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Stark relief
The New York Times editors expose the inequities between and within states. Wisconsin, led by its stubbornly conservative firebrand Scott Walker, has refused to extend Medicaid, apparently a...
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Infectious sclerosis [u]
According to a recent Gallup Poll, only ten percent of Americans view Congress favorably. That’s the lowest score in Gallup’s history for any U.S. institution. Writing for the New York Times, Charles...
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Another reason to dislike Republicans
The New York Times editors weigh in on the House majority’s budget proposal. They call the cuts “extreme,” as they would increase the suffering of the nation’s most vulnerable, while further dampening...
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More Finnish lessons
I’ve written before about Finland’s educational system, here and here, for example. I invite you to read this article in The Atlantic, which more broadly describes Finnish society and attitudes....
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Birthing and eating
The Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives insist on two things: women should always give birth; and no child should receive food stamps. Only in America Filed under: Government, Health Care,...
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Just a game
Truth be told, I’m stuck along with the federal government. Words seem unequal to the task, since the D.C. players don’t listen or read anyway. Who am I to spit at the Republican hell? Besides, it’s...
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Republican irony
First they did everything they could to derail Obamacare, threatening to blow up the world’s economy in the process. Now, after technology glitches in the enrollment process, they want Sibelius’s head...
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Unnecessarily complex
Paul Krugman: A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. He’s talking about the Republicans, of course. The complexity is all about the Affordable Care...
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The column I was about to write
Paul Krugman wonders aloud why modern-day Republicans are such mean bastards, though he doesn’t use those words; he’s writing for the New York Times, after all. As he points out, the GOP wasn’t always...
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The faux outrage
Republicans are having a field day calling for Secretary Sibelius’s head. After doing everything imaginable to scuttle Obamacare, they’re now doing everything imaginable to fault the administration for...
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What would you call them?
Several Republican-led states declined to expand Medicaid. Why? Party officials claim that they can’t afford to, even though the federal government picks up 100 percent of the costs for the first three...
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More on “only in America”
The headline in the New York Times caught my eye: “No health insurance? Just drink.” Golly, who could be behind such a proposal? Would you guess the Koch brothers? The Times site has links to...
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The president f**ked this one up big time [u]
I have long wished that presidents treat their office as a duty or mission or a special kind of job that demands 24/7 dedication. In this admittedly dream world of politics, the president would not...
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