Look, I realize that emotions are high. This was a gut punch, but one we should have seen coming. The whole second hearing was a set up from the beginning. Christine Blasey Ford was never going to get a fair hearing. We knew that going in, and I suspect do did Dr. Ford. Her courage was nonetheless inspiring. What all of us need to do is channel our emotions into a positive energy. As the saying goes, don’t get mad, get even.
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Don't Get Mad, Get Even!
Look, I realize that emotions are high. This was a gut punch, but one we should have seen coming. The whole second hearing was a set up from the beginning. Christine Blasey Ford was never going to get a fair hearing. We knew that going in, and I suspect do did Dr. Ford. Her courage was nonetheless inspiring. What all of us need to do is channel our emotions into a positive energy. As the saying goes, don’t get mad, get even.
Anatomy of a Policy Murder: Will Duplicity and Dupes Kill Hope and Change?
If the last 40-odd days of health care hysteria serve any intellectually viable purpose, it is to ratify the Thomas Theorem on self-fulfilling prophesies: If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. Indeed, like the famous “toilet paper panic” from the 1973 oil crisis and the more recent Obama ammo-hoarding ammo […]
One Day The GOP Will Regret Calling It 'Obamacare' And That Day Cometh Right Soon
It started out on the campaign trail in 2008 with the most generic of titles, “Health Care Reform.” At the time the concept was a popular one with the public at large. Everyone hated the insurance companies and the rising costs were clearly untenable long-term. Every Democratic Presidential candidate ran on the platform. Early front-runner, […]
Christian Principles in Capitalism? Scalia Thinks So.
As reported in the Huffington Post, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had this to say, “While I would not argue that capitalism as an economic system is inherently more Christian than socialism … it does seem to me that capitalism is more dependent on Christianity than socialism is. For in order for capitalism to work […]
Supreme Court Rules Drug Companies Exempt From Lawsuits
Been watching the headlines lately. It’s what a Policy Geek does. The last few days we found people enraged over mostly silly stuff. (Fic, ComicBookMovie.com) For instance, Warner Brothers announced that Ben Affleck is gonna be Batman over the course of a few films. The twitterverse went insane. We didn’t see that coming. After all, […]