Hawt
Sorry this won't be much of an entry. Seattle is entering a savage heat wave that will last into the forseeable future. For those who don't know this about me, I hate the sun. If I die getting to witness the heat death of the universe as Sol winks out, I'll be happy just to watch that fucker go before me.
Life remains the same for me. I'm married. I work. There isn't anything exciting happening other than getting to enjoy the new Link Light Rail. I can't believe how long it took and how stupidly we executed mass transit as voters, but I'm gonna let that go under the bridge while I enjoy zipping to wherever I like as late as 1 am.
The only thing I can think of to talk about politically is Obama's reaction to the Gates arrest. I've come to the conclusion that wierdly enough, the one issue you'd think he *couldn't* lose on, Race, Obama seems incapable of winning. After the Reverend Wright debacle, he made one of the greatest speeches of his career and beautifully laid both the problems and solutions to frictions in race relations before the American people.
And his polling numbers dipped to their lowest point in the duration of the campagin.
Once again, he clarified his remarks wonderfully, and should get some credit, and once again he's somehow made to look like some sort of out-of-whack extremist. I don't really know what he can do about this, and I find it a bit depressing.
On the other hand, maybe he deserves a little kick over the way he's handling the healthcare issue. By cleaving to the middle, he's losing both pro-privatist right wingers and those of us on the left who really would like to see a good single-payer system. But to hear most of the news outlets talk, he's losing all of us because he's being some sort of extreme-commie socialist on the issue, which is utter poppycock.
The worst on the issue are the house and senate democrats. Each of them keeps saying "I won't vote for a public option because there aren't the votes to do a public option!" wailing and wringing their hands. Who's vote do we need that we don't have, exactly? Isn't this the equivelent of saying "Well as long as someone on the planet continues to punch people in the face for no reason, I pretty much have no choice but to do the same thing."
My lovely wife has laid it out quite plainly. This is not really a debate to determine IF we should ration medicine. Healthcare is already rationed. We're just rationing it based on who has money, not who has need.
Horrid.
Life remains the same for me. I'm married. I work. There isn't anything exciting happening other than getting to enjoy the new Link Light Rail. I can't believe how long it took and how stupidly we executed mass transit as voters, but I'm gonna let that go under the bridge while I enjoy zipping to wherever I like as late as 1 am.
The only thing I can think of to talk about politically is Obama's reaction to the Gates arrest. I've come to the conclusion that wierdly enough, the one issue you'd think he *couldn't* lose on, Race, Obama seems incapable of winning. After the Reverend Wright debacle, he made one of the greatest speeches of his career and beautifully laid both the problems and solutions to frictions in race relations before the American people.
And his polling numbers dipped to their lowest point in the duration of the campagin.
Once again, he clarified his remarks wonderfully, and should get some credit, and once again he's somehow made to look like some sort of out-of-whack extremist. I don't really know what he can do about this, and I find it a bit depressing.
On the other hand, maybe he deserves a little kick over the way he's handling the healthcare issue. By cleaving to the middle, he's losing both pro-privatist right wingers and those of us on the left who really would like to see a good single-payer system. But to hear most of the news outlets talk, he's losing all of us because he's being some sort of extreme-commie socialist on the issue, which is utter poppycock.
The worst on the issue are the house and senate democrats. Each of them keeps saying "I won't vote for a public option because there aren't the votes to do a public option!" wailing and wringing their hands. Who's vote do we need that we don't have, exactly? Isn't this the equivelent of saying "Well as long as someone on the planet continues to punch people in the face for no reason, I pretty much have no choice but to do the same thing."
My lovely wife has laid it out quite plainly. This is not really a debate to determine IF we should ration medicine. Healthcare is already rationed. We're just rationing it based on who has money, not who has need.
Horrid.