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H.R. 4789 - Public Option Act, or Medicare You Can Buy Into Act


Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) introduced yesterday H.R. 4789, a bill amending the Social Security Act Title XVIII, Health Insurance for the Aged and Disabled (Medicare). If we won't get a public option through reconciliation, if the public polls are showing overwhelming support for a public option, and if we want to avoid creating a new agency, then let's open up Medicare in its own act and make some progress regardless of what happens with the HCR mess.

Unz Again (Jordan: please just skip this)


In his response to my "Reply to Unz," Ron Unz gets one thing right, a bunch of things wrong, and simply ignores the most damning part of my reply.

(1) He begins by complaining that I argue "at great length [!] that federal inmates should be included in the incarceration estimate."

Reply to Unz


Well, the wheels of right-wing publication may or may not grind exceeding fine, but there's no doubt that they grind exceeding slow.

And I'm sick of waiting for people to get back to me - so here's my "Reply to Unz," in all its final, conclusive, devastating glory:

Foxconn, and the modern labour movement.


Foxconn has been in the labour news for awhile.

China Labour Watch, thus.

Wandering in Sunnier Climes


I've had, ever more, in mind, lately, Dr. Johnson's maxim:

"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."

So here are the first fruits of this new attitude of mine:

On stinerman's opposition to drugs


It was the excellent philosophy instructor Dr. Scott D. Wilson, who taught our friendly author about the idea of objective reality and thick illusions. A thick illusion, as described by Dr. Wilson, was essentially The Matrix; the true nature of the universe is shielded from us by some means, and there is no way that we can ever know this nature because of the illusion. If an illusion is thick and there really is no way out, for all practical purposes, the illusion is reality.

About that Austin Plane Crash


Joe Stack apparently thought his suicide attack on the IRS was a blow struck for freedom.

Persian Calligraphy


My latest YouTube:

An Even Deeper Problem With The USSC's Ruling In Citizens United v. FEC


I'll let SCOTUSWiki speak on this one:

Suppose that General Motors Corp., troubled that a candidate for Congress from Michigan was too favorable to the United Auto Workers, decided to do everything in its corporate power to defeat that candidate. So, aside from spending huge sums of its own money (none of it federal bailout money) to influence the outcome, it went to the office of the voting registrar in downtown Detroit.

Post-traumatic stress disorder. A Western invention? [with update]


Any article which starts with

critique of the burgeoning medical preoccupation with domestic violence

attracts attention.

The author goes on (and I quote approvingly)

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