I read an article by Charles Krauthammer today, one of my least favorite columnists, ever. His article, while disabusing his readers of the notion of death panels, still gave some pretty big misinformation. The article was about living wills and how they are pretty much useless, although Krauthammer admits to having one. The article reads:

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“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.”

The article here has since been edited, but they honestly put that in their editorial. Seriously ( Read more... )

She keeps saying in interviews that she has chosen "not to run for re-election", but that's not actually what she did. She quit. Period. She has another year left in her term, she did not simply decide not to accept the job again, she quit in midstream with no good reason. Because she wanted to avoid being a "lame duck"? Seriously? So instead she's ( Read more... )

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I very rarely ask people to do anything, and even less often do I do it here. Today I'm asking every registered voter in California to please vote against Proposition 8 on November 4th. Please. Don't be evil. Don't impose your idea of religion on the rest of the state. If you believe that marriage is a religious institution, then how can you force ( Read more... )

I'm too tired to go into it. Long story short, I found out Wednesday that I was supposed to be in Fairfield Thursday morning for National Guard duty, unlike when the last unit gave me 24 hours notice before duty, this was an honest misunderstanding, and the 1SG apologized about it a couple of times. Wow. I was able to change my hotel reservations ( Read more... )

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I received this years voter information guide in the mail today, here's how I'm voting ( Read more... )