Yeah, I'm getting on the "this new Medicare plan sucks" bandwagon, with a new angle ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/opinion/01herbert.htmlRead more... )

Expansion of a rant I left in a comment.... Bernard Goldberg was on, to explain why a whole bunch of people are ruining America, particularly by degrading its level of cultural discourse - his new book is _100 People Who Are Screwing Up America_ ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/23/scotus.property.ap/index.htmlRead more... )

http://www.medpagetoday.com/tbindex.cfm?tbid=1215&topicid=88Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/31/bush.plug/Read more... )

http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=8dd61956-6522-4236-a301-fa42b176d9dbRead more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/25/gitmo.quran/index.html

(Credit to erbie for the link.) Looks like the riot deaths are on the government's hands after all - the Koran-flushing really did happen, along with other deliberate desecrations of the book, or at least so ( Read more... )

I think the issues with the proposed Bush plan have been well and thoroughly covered. However, I just got my yearly notification from Social Security (did everyone?) about how long I've worked, etc ( Read more... )

for those who are vaguely interested, Michael Ross was executed by the state of Connecticut and pronounced dead at 2:25 am today. After years of appeals and months of postponements, it's over ( Read more... )