Tag: Rant
If Corporations Can Engage in Electioneering, They Ought to be Able to Vote!
January 26th, 2010, No Comments
It’s happened again. Not to be outdone by the Supreme Court judges of 1886 who first pronounced corporations as possessing the same privileges as citizens with regard to property rights, the current crop of judges have now confirmed our paper citizens can meddle in the election process. This decision is brilliantly reviewed in [...]
The Health Care Debate in the Times or “Live from New York – It’s Saturday Night!”
December 20th, 2009, No Comments
How does one debate the subject of life and death? Really, what are we pretending is happening here? Either access to medical care is a basic right of citizens in a civilized society or it’s a privilege restricted to middle and upper income level consumers (until such time as it’s withdrawn by those [...]
The Space-Worthy Question (not actually sent to the editor of the New York Times)
October 30th, 2009, No Comments
However, if I were in the mood to send an email to the NY Times about their declining standards for Op Ed columns, it would be this one:
To the Editor;
I wish to express my objection to your absence of supervision over your Op-Ed contributors. David Brooks’ latest column, “The Tenacity Question” cites unnamed, but [...]
The Health Care Divide – The Republic versus A Democracy; Which Will We Choose?
August 30th, 2009, No Comments
The Senate appears to be considering the ramifications of pretending we live in a democracy instead of a republic. Tired of the health care battle, in which there will assuredly be no survivors of that old, ‘wheel and deal’ process, there may actually be an old-fashioned vote in which the majority rules.
Fancy that.
The NY Times [...]
Health Care Reform: People Already Have the Right to See a Doctor Without Charge
August 17th, 2009, No Comments
but some of us feel it ought to be a primary care physician first, instead of a coroner.
