Category: Coronavirus
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The GOP Wet Dream: Turn America Into White Trash Heaven
Think about the America the Republican Party wants us to be: a racist, bigoted, misogynistic hellhole of corruption where the rich get richer and everyone else gets the shaft. It’s an America of sham elections and squalid values. It favors feelings over facts, ignorance over expertise and bullshit over truth. It’s not a coincidence that…
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America Doesn’t Have A Health CARE System, It Has A Health INSURANCE System; It Ain’t The Same Thing!
Fact: when anyone walks in the door of America’s “health care system”, the first question we ask isn’t “How can we fix you?”, it’s “How’re you gonna pay for this?”. From the point of view of a for-profit health care system (an oxymoron’s oxymoron which we’ll get to shortly), that’s great. It’s the perfect question.…
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Dear American News Media: Please Stop Being “Accessories To The Murder Of Democracy”
You would think having a story as big and juicy as Donald Trump – a man who wore his treason on his sleeve (“Hey, Russia, if you’re listening…!”) – who said things like “Mexicans are rapists” and “pussy grabbing”, and who lied so often and about everything that the press started keeping count – would…
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Why Does Our News Media Insist On Equating Bullsh*t With Truth?
Some day, when the worst of Trumpism is behind us and American democracy is no longer under threat (or even duress), we owe it to ourselves to take a good, long, hard look at how our news media performed during this patch of time. Now, in their defense, America really hasn’t faced circumstances quite like…
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Are Anti-Vaxx Cops From The Same Hiring Pool As The Cops Who Murdered George Floyd?
Across America, police departments are facing the same problem: a quarter to a third of their employees refuse to get vaccinated (against this particular coronavirus exclusively; none of those employees seems to have balked at any vaccination before this one) and are willing to walk off their jobs if that means staying unvaccinated. Let’s please,…
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Trump Is Now Trying To Do To The Rest Of America What He Did To The GOP — Turn Us Into Him
Donald Trump is a virus in human form. That shouldn’t be a revelation to anyone. Viruses are simple creatures — strands of RNA trying to make more of themselves. To do that, they need to invade a healthy cell — and use the cell as a kind of cheap sex hotel. The virus reproduces by…
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Texas + Zero Gun Laws = Death, Death & More Death
Perversely, one of the advantages of America’s students having to study from home during the pandemic was that it radically reduced the number of school shootings. There was plenty of gun violence outside those empty schools to make up for it though — a whole other problem — but, thankfully, school shootings were zero for…
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Okay – What IF America Split Into Two Countries?
In a very real sense, we’re still fighting the Civil War. And, we fought the Civil War because, though we aspired to E Pluribus Unum, we tripped over “All men are created equal” because we didn’t mean “all” men and by “men”, we meant only “men”. America has always been a great idea poorly executed.…
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“U” For “Unvaccinated” IS The New “Scarlet Letter”
In the month since I first published this post (then it was “Should Be The New Scarlet Letter” vs “IS”), the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant has become its own little pandemic here in America — among the belligerently unvaccinated. Remember Hester Prynne? In Nathanial Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, Hester is forced by her intensely religious Puritan…