These are just a few of the stories I got in one email from Common Dreams. Here’s the newswire, but email subscription is recommended. “If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Can you imagine a trillion? How about the almost 9 trillion of our national debt? How could…
Happy Memorial MLK Birthday Day. Have you wondered what Dr. King would think of the presidential candidates if he were alive? Barack Obama gave a speech took the pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta – the same church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. helped rev up the civil rights movement. “If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that our own community has not always been true to King’s vision of a beloved community. “The divisions, the stereotypes,…
Thor Hesla was killed on January 14th, 2008 in an attack by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan. I may have met Thor once or twice, but I didn’t know him. My perspective on this tragedy is that I know his father, Professor Emeritus David Hesla. David Hesla is a beloved and somewhat eccentric professor, one of the original members of my home department of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Among other things, he wrote the…
I am complete agreement with Jolly Roger’s post Uninsured? Insured, But Poor? DIE, Deadbeat at Reconstitution 2.0, in which he speculates about the ultimate purpose of MedFICO. MedFICO is a new Healthcare Analytics product that assesses healthcare payment risk. Already, payment history is being gathered from hospitals around the country in order to develop records that will predict “how likely patients will be to pay future medical bills.” Don’t tell me that this isn’t some kind of a screening process…
Just some things that caught my eye… The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World | Cracked.com Why We Flirt | Time Top 5 things I saw in America which, as a Canadian, freaked me right out | Paulitics Congressman calls hearing after White House report shows 473 days of email ‘missing’ | Raw Story Bush’s Contempt for the Law | Washington Post Former JAG lawyer: Only America ‘parses’ torture | Raw Story Canada places U.S., Israel on torture watch…
I haven’t been posting on the Presidential race, mostly because the discourse is depressing. The change/experience framing is trite, and I’m already more than sick of it. But here are some random thoughts about the presidential candidates across the board.