My opinion is right – I’ve actually read the bill!
I am growing weary of the twaddle from Republicans or conservatives who claim that the health care law is corrupt/wrong-headed/dangerous because they actually took the time to read the bill. Big whoop....
View ArticleMetaphors and rhetorical points for global warming
From Joe Romm’s open thread about what metaphors to use when describing climate change: (the first one is entirely mine). If your child were sick, and 97% of the world’s doctors said the child would...
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Inane Logic of Teabaggers
An odd fact: I was once mistaken for a Teabagger. It’s true. I was a proto-teabagger. I was outraged at the bank bailouts especially because it meant shortchanging public services like education. The...
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Political Cartoons of Barry Deutsch
Barry Deutsch has some great political cartoons. Deutsch is a Portland based cartoonist who studied under Will Eisner and is based at leftycartoons and other places. He’s done some bona fide comic...
View ArticleDavid Edwards: 5 Things Everyone Ought to Know
This came from a great 2000 interview with David Edwards on Medialens. It is a long quotation, and I’m highlighting the 5 points because they get a little obscured in the discussion. Between the fourth...
View ArticleLogical Mistakes
While I try to get my life back to normal, here are two links to eliminate mental defects (or at least to help you to laugh at them): Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases. Paul Cox’s Glossary of...
View ArticleTwo nastygrams about climate change
I often get irate about climate change, and here are 2 emails I have sent about climate change. They are not so much analytical but contemptuous in tone. Why? Frankly, because I think shaming is the...
View ArticleThe flaw of libertarian economics
The flaw of libertarian economics is that it overlooks or discounts the predatory aspects of power. You can say that we should get government off our backs or that taxation is an unjust burden or that...
View ArticleOnly Chumps with a Rump vote for Trump (Poem)
Only Chumps with a Rump vote for Trump. He will pump this country into a slump. Don’t make me a grump. Don’t be a lump. If you thump for Trump, You might as well jump into a dump! Let’s get over this...
View ArticleLet’s Not Demonize Hilary
I am proud to say that I voted for Hillary Clinton — a principled woman who had to put up with a lot for over 25 years of her public life. I know people are going to nitpick about what a flawed...
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Cornyn: “We will not be bullied by the screams of paid protesters and...
Dear Senator Cornyn, Friday, you said on the floor of the US Senate: “We will not be bullied by the screams of paid protesters and name-calling by the mob.” To my knowledge, it is not illegal for...
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Books by Politicians (and the people who read them)
A few weeks ago I was watching a great interview on Colbert with Bernie Sanders. I love Sanders and find all his ideas to be interesting. Yet when Colbert revealed that Sanders had a new book out, I...
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RE: the solar energy "threat" (Letter to Editor)
Dear Houston Chronicle: I need to quibble with some of the wording in the otherwise excellent report on the emerging solar industry by L.M. Sixel on Monday Dec 2. According to the article, “Solar,...
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Why I support Elizabeth Warren for President
I first heard about Elizabeth Warren when she was being interviewed on PBS by Bill Moyers in the early 2004. She was bright and insightful about consumer finances. She had just written a book about...
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