This is not my main journal. In fact, I probably won't be posting in it very often at all. However, in light of the fact I tend to kind of cheese people off with my politics I'm moving political/poli-economic entries over to this journal.

IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY VIEWPOINTS THAT YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH, DO NOT FRIEND. It will just make you ( Read more... )

Discussion post for the poll over on vikki.

Okay, I know what you're thinking: these two things aren't mutually exclusive. I believe you're wrong. Mostly. (slave_to_anime points out that public safety specifically isn't always mutually exclusive to freedom ( Read more... )

Health care reform? Not a bad idea.

THIS Health care bill?

did you not think, Congress, that maybe the reason why it took you a year and one billion favors to get this passed was because it's a BAD BILL?

maybe?

*waves a flag* woo, history. fml.

I'd like to think I have a unique viewpoint on this because of the following:

1) I am in a low-paying job.
2) I just lost my health-care insurance through my job.
3) I am recovering from H1N1, am a smoker-working-on-quitting, and thus at a very high risk for secondary infection pneumonia.

( But, frankly: )