Healthcare in this country is a total wreck. Volunteers providing free care is heartwarming, but our society should be providing this care directly. It’s unconscionable that people have to camp out 14 hours ahead of time for a chance to see a doctor or dentist.
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Granted Loomis links to a member and not the DSA, but any Democrat is universes better than a Republican. Even if Jones doesn’t support a $15 wage and Medicare-For-All, the only way to get them involves a Democratic Senate. Why sacrifice the goals for purity of politicians?
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A couple posts re-blogging Lawyers, Guns, & Money coming up!
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Oh, poor, put-upon, Dave. Women, of all creatures, judging men. Perhaps, in finding the path to equality, those who have been oppressed have something to teach those of us who have benefited from their oppression. The Vox article he links to is great, too bad he can’t appreciate it.
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I can’t find the permalink to Winer’s post, so here it is in all it’s glory: The new art form, and media critics, women judging the quality of male apologies. Why don’t we all just apologize for existing and be done with it. – Scripting News
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I can’t believe I’ve had to add a “Nazis” tag to my blog. Ugh.
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And on top of that, they don’t have online cancelation! The automated phone system couldn’t find my account since it was too old. I had to be transferred between two (very nice) agents and spend ~10 minutes to actually do it. Goodbye & good riddance @NYTimes.
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So we had the NYTimes’ fawning Nazi article. That inadequate response to the feedback. The absurd number of times they interviewed the other Nazi. Lack of profiles of actually marginalized folk. Lack of anyone to the left of Krugman.
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It is safe to say – and I’m willing to go out on quite a limb here – that a person who straight-up admits that they would rather vote for a serial pedophile than a Democrat is not a person worth talking to, nor one whose opinions will be affected by discourse.” – Gin & Tacos
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“In one particularly egregious example, Mr. Cuomo’s administration forced the M.T.A. to send $5 million to bail out three state-run ski resorts that were struggling after a warm winter.” I don’t know if there’s anything Cuomo could do that would surprise me.
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