“For the Euro-American demographic there is a great disturbance in the Force. A bit like Darth Vader’s family crisis. His son, his ex-droid, his future son-in-law, and his future son-in-law’s Wookiee are all coming to rescue his daughter. Stay tuned.”
— “Lynda” on citizenism versus white nationalism
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god bless us, every one
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”— Anatole France, The Red Lily, Chapter 7 (1894)
(comix strip by David King)
i read all nine pages and then the wife and I discussed effective methods of Kevorking me in the event of a vegetable-level injury …… Hat off to the journalist, Bill Coffin, who wrote sensitively and told the story from beginning to end, including the perspectives of the patient, the patient’s family, the care providers, and the insurer.
This is a heartbreaking nightmare on so many levels. I know it’s a nine-pager but please read through all the way to the end to the discussion of PPACA’s serious issues on providing for long-term care coverage (further exacerbated by the demise of the CLASS Act). There’s also some pretty great introductory-level stuff on some of the more disputed PPACA provisions here too, in a context that absolutely conveys how incredibly stupid opposition to these sections of the law really are.
Hello! I live in D.C. and I work on healthcare’s legal side (for good guys, by the way). One day when I’m out of debt I’ll get the hell out of here and live in the country but for now I have to read the news every day and it just keeps making me angrier.
(Source: spx)
“As you may know, President Obama initially tried to strike a ‘Grand Bargain’ with Republicans over taxes and spending. To do so, he not only chose not to make an issue of G.O.P. extortion, he offered extraordinary concessions … Obama effectively staked out a position that was not only far to the right of the average voter’s preferences, it was if anything a bit to the right of the average Republican voter’s preferences.
“But Republicans rejected the deal. So what was the headline on an Associated Press analysis of that breakdown in negotiations? ‘Obama, Republicans Trapped by Inflexible Rhetoric.’ A Democratic president who bends over backward to accommodate the other side — or, if you prefer, who leans so far to the right that he’s in danger of falling over — is treated as being just the same as his utterly intransigent opponents. Balance!”
— Paul Krugman, The New York Times, 29 July 2011
(sketch & painting of Zatanna by Alex Ross)
JOSÉ DOLORES
Thank you. But anyway, sooner or later, they are going to kill me.
SOLDIER
Maybe not, General. Maybe they will let you live.
JOSÉ DOLORES
If they let me live, it means it is convenient for them. And if it’s convenient for them, it is convenient for me to die.
SOLDIER
Why?
JOSÉ DOLORES
Because the hunter lets the hawk live only when he wants a decoy or to hunt in his place. He is kept alive, but in a cage.
SOLDIER
But then, after a while, maybe they will free you.
JOSÉ DOLORES
No, little soldier, it doesn’t work like that, friend. If a man gives you freedom, it is not freedom. Freedom is something you — you alone — must take. Do you understand? Well, you will, one day, because you’ve already started to think about it.
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Art:
Robert Crumb, excerpt from “When the Niggers Take Over America!”, Weirdo #28, 1993
Interview:
“I kind of have ambivalent feelings toward Obama. I think he really tries. He’s trying to do the right thing, but he’s just up against it. I read Wendell Potter’s book about the health insurance companies trying to stop health care reform. Wendell Potter was a whistle-blower who worked for Cigna for 20 years as a PR man. And then he dropped out. He said his conscience started bothering him too much so he dropped out of the whole thing. And then he started preaching against the health insurance companies. He was embraced by Obama’s people because of that. They brought him in and he spoke to senate committees. So he got to watch Obama closely and see what he was doing. He said in his book that Obama worked on that project every day for a year trying to fight for that health care reform. The guy worked really hard, and he tried to have the best team around him but he couldn’t bring about any kind of effective health reform. He’s up against such powerful forces. People are pissed that he hasn’t turned things around and saved the world, but, you know, he doesn’t have that kind of power.”
— Robert Crumb on President Obama, May 2011
