I'm thinking about AdmNaismith asserting over on Facebook that anyone with an (R) after his name is evil/crazy/stupid and truly thinking he's onto something.  His theory is that 50% of the people he knows - who seem perfectly lucid - are secretly evil/crazy/stupid.  And that theory makes more sense to him than the possibility that other people know things he ( Read more... )

Reading my Facebook feed a few minutes ago I thought an link was titled "Pogram" when it was actually "Program ( Read more... )

Phoebe, I just checked this link.  The two health insurance companies I have as choices are both ranked with a score of 90 and highest customer satisfaction across the board.

http://www.consumerreports.org/health/insurance/NCQA-rankings.htm?state=MA&planCategory=privateHMOBut when I went and looked at what you have available in Oklahoma, drastic ( Read more... )

The fringe right thinks they can hold our government hostage as a method of mending laws ( Read more... )

If someone believes something you don't believe, is it right to make sure you don't purchase their services ( Read more... )

There's a close-up color photo of three dead babies above the fold in my newspaper today ( Read more... )

The most depressing thing I've seen coming out of the tragedy in Connecticut is my friend Heather saying that an armed Good Guy would have made it MORE likely that more children would have been killed.  The belief that Guns Are Evil and Only The State Can Save Us is so strong and so closely held that the concept of individual agency using a tool ( Read more... )

Should people be allowed to sell their kidneys?

Let's say you are really healthy and a friend of yours is really unhealthy.  You are inclined to help your friend, but really can't afford to take the time off of work and - honestly - want a little sumpthin sumpthin for your effort.  You hear that other people get $10,000 in other countries for a good ( Read more... )

There's an article in our local newspaper today that is clearly labeled "analysis", which means "opinion" and I generally ignore it, but I did skim the first paragraph.  It starts out saying "the two cores of the Republican party, social conservatives and corporate interests..."

I've been listening to left wing people say with genuine mystery "how ( Read more... )

My friends on the far left are wringing their hands over the way people in the country are supporting Dan Cathy's homophobia, thinking that it is all latent homophobia rearing its ugly head.  I'm sure there is some of that, but there's something else going on here that I don't think is getting addressed ( Read more... )