Will Your Prescription Meds Be Covered Next Year? Better Check!
My four months as a private prison guard, which has led to US phasing out private prison use
US: The Real Way the 2016 Election Is Rigged
Joseph Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary: ‘No one believes me now, but I knew nothing’ – she said Continue reading “August rambling #2: how ridiculous xenophobia is”
Louisville doctor says breakthrough treatment could wipe out cancer in a decade. Even better, one of the subjects in the story is my friend Eddie, the Renaissance Geek!
Keefknight Cartoon: Colon. One of my brothers-in-law died from colorectal cancer in 2002, at the age of 41.
Why I Left the Right: How Studying Religion Made Me a Liberal.
The White House Welcomes Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church. See this powerful documentary in full (60 minutes).
Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage.
Continue reading “March rambling #1: wipe out cancer in a decade”
Thanks to Reliance on “Signature” Drone Strikes, US Military Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing.
John Oliver: Subpar Sex Education in U.S. Schools. Plus: DC Statehood; stay for the song at the end.
Senator Elizabeth Warren to the GOP: This is 2015! Also Jeb Bush’s Grandfather Was A Founding Member Of Today’s Planned Parenthood.
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong? Continue reading “August rambling #1: Jon Stewart, and Roz Chast”
This is some hope for you liberals who are feeling a bit… down after November 4.
Somehow, I have received in the (snail) mail the current (October 2014) issue of Imprimis. The article, The Case Against Liberal Compassion by William Voegeli, the Senior Editor of Claremont Review of Books, arrived right after the 2014 midterm elections. He attacks “the five big program areas that make up our welfare state.”
Basically, it’s the same old trope about liberals using other people’s money to do good. He uses the Affordable Care Act, and specifically the disastrous rollout of the Obamacare website as “proof”, ignoring the value of the actual program to the previously unemployed.
Of course, he does not once mention the major “welfare state,” corporate welfare. Continue reading “The case against The Case Against Liberal Compassion”
Hyperpartisanship, which is rampant in America, often paints people like me as unpatriotic; this, perhaps unsurprisingly, really ticks me off.
Right before Independence Day, PARADE magazine ran this poll of the “most patriotic cities” in the United States, which was actually based on Amazon.com’s “comparison of America-themed flag sales between Jan. 1. and June 24 on a per capita basis among cities with more than 400,000 residents.” I don’t find literal flag-waving to necessarily equate with patriotism.
Indeed, I was taken by this piece by Daniel Nester in the Albany Times Union, A flag stirs feelings of uncertainty, which is also about human relationship.
Flag-waving, depending on whom you talk to, is either something one overthinks or doesn’t think about at all…
I’ve never owned any flag, unless Phillies pennants or rainbow Gay Pride banners count. Continue reading “What is patriotism?”
