I went to a hospital ER on Saturday night to get some drugs because one of my legs was generating truly excruciating pain. I got the drugs after an examination and x-rays. When I get home (this happened elsewhere) I am supposed to get a MRI. I don’t like the thought of that because . . . → Read More: My evening in the emergency room
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Your monkey’s messing with that medicine And you’re beat down with the jones (I got the cure–you want it?) I see ya sweating shaking your body’s aching badly Feel the fever in your bones now (Oooooooh sooo sick) Trip trip trip trippin out Just start a count Minutes now to lose the misery (You . . . → Read More: Pop another pill, and leave all your cares behind This isn’t a big deal in the scope of things, but it really is pretty funny. As just about everyone who cared knew would happen, a bunch of people are filing lawsuits aimed at overturning the individual health insurance mandate included in the health insurance industry welfare act passed by Congress a short . . . → Read More: “I absolutely reject the notion that I previously rejected the notion absolutely” Here’s the whiniest, most incoherent intra-sect rant ever, directed by semi-famous right wing blogger Dan Riehl against some guy who works for House minority leader Orange John Boehner. The guy called Riehl a nitwit, essentially, and in his indignant response, Riehl calls the insult “insightful.” One can’t but agree. One of Riehl’s commenters chimed . . . → Read More: A few things we happened across First things first: Of all the strange and dark goings on these days, the thing that finally got me wound up enough to finish this post, which I started about 10 days ago, is the haunting image of Michael Buble, Liza Minnelli’s heir apparent, being stalked by a velociraptor. Or possibly several; they all . . . → Read More: Being Dick Nixon: Unwinnable War, Crappy ‘Health Care Reform,’ plus … So the president sat down for a White House interview with Bret Baier of Fox News. It was a contentious interview. I haven’t seen any right-wing reactions to it, but my guess is that they’re lauding Baier for taking Obama’s scalp. I haven’t seen any Democratic responses either, but my guess is they’ll remark . . . → Read More: Obama disparages “the left”, pledges not to disrupt “the system” Anyone who takes health insurance reform seriously recognizes that universal government-funded health care is the only way to eliminate the abuses of the health insurance industry and control costs to the point that per capita spending on health care in the US falls more or less into line with other developed countries rather than . . . → Read More: Health Insurance Reform: How your precious bodily fluids got sapped Retired general and former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who did much worse stuff but is best known as the guy who appointed himself acting president when Ronald Reagan was shot, is dead. Barack Obama hails him as representative of “our finest warrior-diplomat tradition of those who dedicate their lives to public service.” Jonathan . . . → Read More: Al Haig no longer in control; Yoo, Bybee just some lawyers; single payer prevails! Slate editor Jacob Weisberg has a story up in his magazine—and simultaneously in Newsweek, as if what he has to say is so important that it had to be said twice—identifying Barack Obama’s “cool, detached temperament” as a drag on his own popularity and that of his party. Weisberg allows as how Scott Brown’s . . . → Read More: In which Jacob Weisberg reflects on the Ozzie Nelson administration Former Democratic Leadership Council chairman Bruce Reed takes a predictable lesson for Democrats away from the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts: Run away, run away! He quotes Missouri Senator Claire McKaskill, who reacted to the election by saying that “people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast,” and he opines . . . → Read More: Bruce Reed: Cowboy Up and Bend Over. Supreme Court: Just Bend Over. |
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