Everybody needs a good rant from time to time. Cenk Uygur didn’t like the fact that a protester was allowed to openly carry a handgun at an anti-Obamacare protest. It’s pretty obvious why protests and guns don’t mix, but this happened very close to the location where Obama was scheduled to appear. Watch the video [...]
Here’s a little bit of hospital slang I learned from a friend: the homeboy dropoff. In at least one Southern California hospital, that’s what they call it when gangsters drive their bullet-ridden or overdosing buddies to the hospital, only to drop the homeboy on the curb outside of the emergency room as they rush off [...]
Health care reform is the big debate in American politics right now, with the so-called public option being likened to European-style socialized medicine. That’s supposed to be a bad thing, I guess. By the magical knowledge-bearing powers of the internet, I discovered some research which compares the United States with 18 other industrialized nations by [...]
Here’s where I think the tea parties really missed a huge opportunity: bailouts. I heard a lot of talk about wasteful spending, skyrocketing debt, and unjust taxes; I didn’t hear much about the gigantic sums of taxpayer money going straight to failed banks run by highly questionable CEOs. Oh, and good luck getting any details [...]
