by the Night Writer Mitch made a reference to “this year’s model”, which reminded me of Elvis Costello’s “I Don’t Want to Go to Chelsea”, which reminded me of how little I expect of a British-style health system. Capital punishment, she’s this year model – They call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie I [...]
by the Night Writer Debate Comes Down to Public Option I know that people’s thoughts are beginning to turn toward the Thanksgiving table and that there is a temptation to refer to this healthcare bill as a “turkey.” Debating the public option is a stupefying misdirection. The idea that this reform can be made acceptable [...]
offered by Night Writer from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison: “Folly is a more dangerous enemy to the good than evil. One can protest against evil; it can be unmasked and, if need be, prevented by force. Evil always carries the seeds of its own destruction, as it makes people, at the least, [...]
By Reverend Mother Last night at approximately 10:30 Mall Diva, Tiger Lilly, Princess Flickerfeather and a good friend of the family, whom we will call Mrs. Lotti, left So. St. Paul headed for Washington. Monday evening Faith heard a radio interview in which Michele Bachmann urged citizens to gather a group and be at the National Mall [...]
by the Night Writer Obama: Health Care Plan Would Give Seniors Right To Choose How They Are Killed Obama humbled to win Nobel Ok, the second one is obviously the fake. “Humble” is never used in reference to our president. We should have seen this coming; after all, he closed Gitmo, got us out of [...]
by the Night Writer Congressional and other townhall defenders of the nationalized healthcare proposals — collectively lumped as “Obamacare” — are quick to deny that rationing of healthcare is intrinsic in the proposals, or that the old and the very young are at risk from a sliding scale prioritizing who receives care. While no politician [...]
by the Night Writer Tuesday I spent a chunk of the day down in Rochester at the Mayo Clinic (actually, St. Mary’s Hospital, part of the Mayo complex) while my father’s brother was undergoing an aortic-valve replacement, the same operation my father had in 2005. It was my first visit to the Mayo campus and [...]
by the Night Writer A new commenter here claimed to be greatly amused by last week’s reprise of the “I don’t want to go on the cart” post I originally did a couple of years ago, where I used the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail “I’m not dead” scene in juxtaposition with an [...]
by the Night Writer The recent thuggery and slapfests at townhall meetings across the country as union goons and Democrat party activists literally attack people speaking out against Obamacare put me in mind of a certain classic Norman Rockwell painting. I contacted the Lumberjack, he of the mad PhotoShop skillz, with an idea. He delivered [...]
by the Night Writer If you were to apply the same thinking to “stimulate” the housing market that the administration is using in the “Cash for Clunkers” program you’d have the government giving you a discount on a high-density urban condo in exchange for your suburban rambler — and then burning down the rambler. (I [...]
