2017 archive
Republican Health (Don’t Call It) Care 0
At Philly.com, Ronnie Polaneczky profiles a Medicaid recipient who is a potential victim of Trumpcare. She’s a seven-year old girl from a solidly middle-class family who suffers from Rett Syndrome. Here’s a bit of her article:
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Emma is only one of the countless thousands of Americans who rely on Medicaid when their luck runs out. Sick kids, disabled adults, the impoverished elderly – there is a real person, a real family, behind every dollar. Trump’s butchering of Medicaid would trade the well-being of these Americans for tax breaks for those who are already rich enough to buy and staff their own hospitals.
That possibility is not just immoral.
It’s grotesque.
“No Questions Asked” 0
Dick Polman reflects on the Montana Republican candidate who attacked a reporter and muses on life in Trumplandia. A snippet:
Do please read the rest.
Promises, Promises 0
Seth Meyers discusses how Donald Trump’s budget proposal violates his campaign promises about about health care, social security, etc., and wonders what would happen if Donald Trump the candidate met Donald Trump the president.
Dupes, Symps, and Fellow Travelers 0
It is quite possible, disturbingly well within the realm of possibility, that one of the dupes has been identified.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Twits on Twitter 0
Shorter Chris Freind: You can’t believe this twit.
BFFs 0
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Dick Polman has more. Here’s how he starts; follow the link for the rest:
Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, Brennan gave us the fullest public accounting thus far of Russia’s “aggressive” and “multifaceted” penetration of the ’16 presidential election — and he spoke openly of Russia’s “contacts and interactions” with people in the Trump campaign. We should thank the Republican committee members for making that possible, because it was their hapless questioning that prompted Brennan’s candor.
No There There 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., sums up contemporary “conservatism.”
The one constant in contemporary conservatism is adherence to what seems to be its core principle: Mean for the sake of mean.
No Place To Hide 0
A columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle sums up Alexa (and all those other “digital assistants”).
“C’mon Caille, we can train her and everything. And she was a gift!”
“So was the Trojan Horse.”
Looking for Little Marco 0
Daniel Ruth points out that it’s easier for members of Marco Rubio’s constituency to find Waldo than it is for them to find Little Marco.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite to your pick-up.
The officer was speaking to an unidentified woman Tuesday night when he dropped his gun and it went off, hitting one of his fingers and the woman’s foot.
GOP Health (Don’t Call It) Care 0
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
“Unpresidented” 0
Der Spiegel takes a look at Donald Trump’s first three months in office. What they see is not pretty. A nugget (emphasis added):
“No politician in history. Not Nelson Mandela. Not Mahatma Gandhi, not John F. Kennedy. Him. There stood a billionaire, inhabiting the most powerful office in the world, complaining about how unfair the world was. Because there seems to be one rule with Donald Trump: He is never to blame, even though almost everything currently happening to him is his fault.
Do read the rest.
Old Wine In Neo Bottles 0
Thom summarizes the history and failure of Neo-Liberalism, in particular its role in molding oligarchies.