“Our nation’s health care crisis… is a crisis of culture”
My wife works in the medical industry. Nearly daily, she tells me of patients who walk into her office with an attitude of entitlement as large if not larger …
Joining the echo chamber
I'm having a hard time posting on the Brown-Coakley race in Massachusetts. To put it bluntly, I fear the echo chamber. The right side of the blogosphere has gone …
The Forever Campaign
What the hell happened? There was a huge shift in the American psyche at some point in the last few years, and for the life of me I can't …
From September Until Now: A Graph of Brown’s Rise and Coakley’s Fall in Massachusetts
Looking around the internet, I noticed a severe lack of graphical annotations of the Massachusetts polls between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. So I put the impetus on myself …
If Coakley loses, it’s because Dems didn’t blame Bush enough
I kid you not:As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama's rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley's …
Dumb, very dumb, move by Royal Caribbean
I watched a Haiti segment tonight on CBS' 60 Minutes... it was riveting, tragic, gut wrenching, sickening, appalling and more. There were interviews with American surgeons using rum and …
Jack is Back. Tonight!
I started watching 24 in its first season and have seen every single episode since. I even contributed to a book about the series. For some reason, though, I …
Would someone let Cindy Sheehan know that Cheney’s no longer in power?
Please:A group led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has protested near the CIA's headquarters and former Vice President Dick Cheney's home in northern Virginia. They were protesting the use …
Yet another fraudulent global warming claim
This one about the Himalayan glacier melt:A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of …
This Landed in My Email Box Today
It's from Mitt Romney: I will get right to the point. The Senate race here in Massachusetts is incredibly close and turnout is going to hold the key to …