Category: Healthcare
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The Difference Between Icing And Cake
Icing: “Both sides have decent people on them!” Cake: one side is racist, violent and reactionary, the other isn’t. The whole trick to getting propaganda to work is convincing as many people as possible that icing is what matters. If the outside is pretty, sparkly and distracting enough, hopefully no one will notice that the…
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The Only Confession Booth Anyone Needs Is Their Own Bathroom Mirror
No confessions required. We all do this. We just do. We stand in front of a bathroom mirror and we get real with ourselves — realer than we get with anyone else because the person we’re getting really, really REAL with is US. When we look into our own eyes, we see a version of…
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What Soccer (Football To The Rest Of The Civilized World) Can Teach Us About Life
Soccer’s a simple sport. That’s why it’s universal. Kick the ball into the other guy’s goal more than he kicks it into yours and you win. Now, throw a few off side rules into the mix, some great strategic thinking and some talent to pull it off and that simple sport becomes exactly what they…
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Dear American News Media: Stop Asking The Democrats To Compromise With Republicans; No One Should Compromise With Evil
“Evil” is a loaded word. It’s a little like “Nazi” or comparing people to Hitler. Back when Donald Trump was sworn in — and some of us noticed how evil and Nazi-like Trump was already behaving — “Godwin’s Law” was invoked (Godwin’s Law says that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a…
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Breaking News: Having Experienced COVID-19 For Himself, Trump Reveals His New, Trump-Style Health Care Plan: It’s Called “TrumpCare PICK-AN-ORGAN”
Finally – a health “care” plan that thinks like Donald Trump does — and “takes care” of people the same way. That is, it picks their pocket with one hand while taking their temperature with the other. Or it behaves like a super spreader’s super spreader. Donald can relate to COVID-19 — now that he’s…
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Every Story May Have Two Points Of View, But It Doesn’t Necessarily Have Two “Sides”
“Both Sides Do It” journalism (an oxymoron really) wants to insist that truth & lies have the same weight; it’s not for them to tell their readers which to believe — lies or truth. That’s not journalism, it’s malpractice justifying its intellectual laziness and lack of moral conviction. A thief and his victim both have…
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Why Did We Ever Criminalize Drug Use To Begin With? Because Judging People Is Easier Than Helping Them…
The “war on drugs” was never a war on “drugs”. Like the drug laws it was meant to epitomize, the drug war was always entirely focused on drug users. And not just the users because they were using, but on their race. The first drug law in America was written in 1875 in San Francisco…
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“Me” v “We”
That, in a nutshell, is the argument we’re having in America today: the rights of “ME” v the rights of “WE”. I hesitate to call anything “Republican thinking” anymore. That’s an oxymoron. Republicans don’t think, they perpetrate. They’re criminals engaged in a criminal enterprise — the overthrow of the legitimate American government by a devil’s…