Okay, this is admittedly random, but I love the way this guy says “details.”
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.
It Ain’t No Use In Calling Out My Name, Babe
A year ago this blog was hosted on Yahoo, and I was having major problems with hackers inserting hidden spam ads and messing up my code. Yahoo customer service was massively unresponsive to my complaints – until Brandon helpfully switched my data to his server and I was happily quit of Yahoo.
Now today I get an email from Yahoo informing me:
We will soon upgrade your WordPress blog. …
We have become aware of security vulnerabilities in WordPress version 2.0.2. To prevent hackers from exploiting these vulnerabilities and potentially damaging your blog or web site, we will soon upgrade all Yahoo! Small Business WordPress blogs running version 2.0.2 to the more secure version 2.8. …
We regret that we are unable to provide the precise day and time at which your blog will be upgraded, so we encourage you to review your blog regularly during the upgrade process, from August 31 to September 14.
Gee, thanks, guys. You’ve finally acknowledged the existence of the problem. Talk about too little, too late.