Barbara Ehrenreich has a fabulous response to a so-called research survey showing women are unhappier now than they were in 1972 -- and therefore feminism must be to blame.
I remain mystified why feminism is the only "f" word that young women don't want to use.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175126/barbara_ehrenreich_do_women_have_the_blues_
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Brain Science proves Torture Victims Lie
Read the full story in Wired:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/badintelligence/
Severe interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and the exploitation of phobias aren’t just morally reprehensible, they’re based on bad science, destroying the very memories they’re supposed to recover.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
An American without health insurance is like a...
According to the man speaking for the Cato Institute on PBS last night, everyone should have a right to an "uninsured" body.
Afterall, as he said, you can opt out of car insurance if you don't drive. Similarly you can refuse home insurance by not having a mortgage. We deserve, he said, the say "opt out" choice for health insurance.
But what if non-health insurance paying citizens aren't worth the expense they cause all of us later when they get sick?
Isn't it true that if you don't own a car you can't have a car accident, but if you have a body, you may still get sick, and if you do, other people, taxpayers or charites who cover the uninsured will have to intervene to save your life.
It's not about who gets covered, it is about who pays. Healthcare is the one thing that it seems Americans like to overpay for, as long as the people they overpay to are not the government. But they only want to overpay if they can also punish people with the freedom to be uninsured.
Afterall, as he said, you can opt out of car insurance if you don't drive. Similarly you can refuse home insurance by not having a mortgage. We deserve, he said, the say "opt out" choice for health insurance.
But what if non-health insurance paying citizens aren't worth the expense they cause all of us later when they get sick?
Isn't it true that if you don't own a car you can't have a car accident, but if you have a body, you may still get sick, and if you do, other people, taxpayers or charites who cover the uninsured will have to intervene to save your life.
It's not about who gets covered, it is about who pays. Healthcare is the one thing that it seems Americans like to overpay for, as long as the people they overpay to are not the government. But they only want to overpay if they can also punish people with the freedom to be uninsured.
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