Repeatedly, we’ve been told that “Obamacare” will discourage sharp, motivated professionals from becoming doctors. That even though it makes no mention of capping the salary a doctor can make, young people will be so dismayed at any type of regulation to the health insurance market they won’t want to go to school to become one…
Category: Thursday
Petty Issues: Republican Debate Edition
After watching the Republican debate, a few thoughts… 5. This is the party of has beens, only two of the seven candidates on stage are currently in government, and it’s laughing stock candidates Ron Paul and Michelle Bachmann 4. John Huntsman should save his money and not run. When Republicans say they want more variety…
We Can’t Keep Losing Our Top Anti-Corporate Voices to Sex Scandals
Below this feature Now What? did an excellent job of pointing out how strange this whole Weinergate saga is, but I’m a little interested in the uniqueness of it and a lot more interested in the “Who cares about it all?” aspect of it. Most importantly, we’re a little worried this is going to cause…
Petty Issues
Before seeing Lady Gaga on 60 Minutes, I didn’t really like her that much…and now I’m certain I don’t. This is reason 11466 that young women don’t have any good role models in a media landscape of fame whores and teen moms turned reality stars. The best role models out there are international women (like…
Larger Editorial: Why Republicans are the Pyramid Scheme Party
In an item I ran on Sunday I said social conservatives (the majority of the Republican Party by far) need to wake up to being used by fiscal conservatives (the small minority of the party that actually runs it). And I’d like to continue on that thread now. After all, when social conservatives have been…
Larger Editorial: Republicans, Why Self-Hating Governments Can’t Be Effective
“Republicans have a great gambit. They run on the promise that government is ineffective and then they get in there and prove it”–Bill Maher Republicans hate government. They hate the regulations it imposes. They hate the taxes it draws to keep the country running. If you’re Ron Paul, you even hate that government forces you…
Petty Issues
It’s weird that so many look forward to The Rapture they miss the very real man made armageddon of Climate Crisis, currently shredding through the red states in the form of tornadoes. This weekend will officially make me 25, the same age as Lady Gaga (who could pass for an easy 40, when I saw…
Larger Editorial: Defending Teacher Unions, the Most Misunderstood Organization in America
Blaming teacher unions for what’s wrong with public education is like blaming the coal miner’s union for the pollution a coal company causes. But yet, in everything from the worthless documentary Waiting for Superman—which faked an interest in probing what’s wrong with public education before taking the easy way out in blaming education unions—to the…
Larger Editorial: Is Obama Ushering in a New Era of Competent Government?
“Government can do nothing right.” Republicans have said this for so long, we hardly blame them for getting elected into office and proving it. They run on the promise that government is ineffective, sluggish to respond, and unholy expensive, and then don’t even attempt to govern once they get elected. Instead, trying as hard as…
Petty Issues
This week McDonald’s announced they’re trying to go after the Starbucks crowd by installing new flat screen TVs and toning down the drunkenly bright color scheme in select McDonalds. If I were McDonald’s I would just sit back and count my billions and let Starbucks have the douchebags that pay 3 dollars more for a…
Larger Editorial: Superman Struggling, Is Obama Worth It?
Last week I spent most items defending President Obama, but now it’s time to ask the flip side of that question: Is he worth it? By worth it, I mean is the entire Democrat Party worth compromising for this one man? Far right wing conservatives (i.e. racists) hate him with every fiber in their body….
Larger Editorial: Why Climate Crisis is the New Civil War and Why It’s Worth Fighting
If anyone has ever read a book or seen a TV show based on life in the “contemporary” Southeast, sooner or later The Civil War comes up. It’s as if the writer—who probably “isn’t from around here”—is itching for the moment to work this into the narrative. Even otherwise great books and television series go…
Larger Editorial: Is Reality TV responsible for the Tea Party?
Let me start off by acknowledging that I don’t mean that title literally. I don’t mean to suggest that the creators of the Real Housewives of [Some City You Don’t Live In] were sitting around thinking of faster ways to ruin civilization and decided to create a quasi-racist, definitely ignorant, oxymoronic (they want to lower…