Okay, this is admittedly random, but I love the way this guy says “details.”
Archive | August 12, 2009
Why You Should Stop Worrying and Love Government-Run Health Care
Our President Incarnate explains:
People say, well, how can a private company compete against the government? And my answer is that if the private insurance companies are providing a good bargain, and if the public option has to be self-sustaining – meaning taxpayers aren’t subsidizing it, but it has to run on charging premiums and providing good services and a good network of doctors, just like any other private insurer would do – then I think private insurers should be able to compete. They do it all the time. I mean, if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.
Well then, that should reassure the skeptics.
Gn?sis Tou Homoiou T?i Homoi?i
Direct Action: An Ethnography, anarchist scholar David Graeber’s long-awaited 600-page sociological/anthropological study of the anti-globalisation protest movement, is now available from AK Press.
He says it’ll also be available from Amazon in a couple of days.
Is Our Children Learning?
Minnesota Rep Michele Bachmann is concerned that Obama is going to inflict on us “re-education camps … where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward.”
Um … I thought we’d already had that. For a while.
Roosevelt’s Ghost
My grandmother always referred to FDR as “that man who killed all the little pigs.” (If you don’t know what she was referring to, click here.) Now there was a man who got warm fuzzies from seeing windows broken.
And now of course he’s back.