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Thursday, February 11th, 2010Neither. It’s an expense. Health care is an economic commodity, just like food, clothing, shelter, cell-phones, cable television, and X-box 360s. And the health care system is simply an industry, or rather, an amalgamation of industries that provide preventative, emergency, maintenance, and palliative care; pharmaceuticals and supplies, and insurance coverage. It might seem a bit [...]
Helen Pleads for Personal Responsibility
Monday, November 23rd, 2009This is a cross-post from Swampbubbles.com From the Toledo Blade Letters to the Editor: November 22, 2009 Headline: Let sick workers stay home As a nation and a region, we are battling uniquely difficult circumstances created by a harsh economic recession and a national health emergency — the spread of the H1N1 flu. Call it [...]
The Hit Parade
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Just In: CNN News reports that Rihanna and Chris Brown have recorded a duet together. The couple recently made headlines when Brown assaulted his 21-year-old girlfriend. The photo of her battered and bruised face were leaked to the press. I wonder what they sang together? Love hurts? Hit me Baby one more time? One Hit [...]
Republic? Democracy? Aristocracy!
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009Some people label the United States of America a Democracy. Some–including I–find it necessary to correct this, countering that founding fathers formed the USA as a Republic, which is for lack of a better term, “representative democracy.” What I’ve been hearing about many holding public, elected office demonstrates that the Republic has given way to [...]
Welcome 2009
Thursday, January 1st, 2009As is now a tradition of my blog, I mark the passing of another year with lines form Lord Alfred Tennyson’s In Memorium : Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out [...]
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