Health Insurance Fun September 6th, 2019 @ 8:45 am PDT
Healthcare in America Is Broken
That’s Great It Starts with an Earthquake March 15th, 2019 @ 6:13 am PDT
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.
Blood of Patriots January 20th, 2018 @ 10:04 am PST
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” – Thomas Jefferson
Outsiders Hope for Jobs in Trump Administration January 13th, 2017 @ 1:56 pm PST
In which I am interviewed by Marketplace on NPR
#FailureFactories April 19th, 2016 @ 12:07 pm PDT
In just eight years, Pinellas County School Board members turned five schools in the county’s black neighborhoods into some of the worst in Florida. First they abandoned integration, leaving the schools overwhelmingly poor and black. Then they broke promises of more money and resources. Every year, they turn out a staggering number of children who […]
Works Progress Administration April 8th, 2016 @ 7:47 am PDT
It was on this day in 1935 that Congress approved funding for President Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration, known as the WPA, a program designed to put unemployed Americans back to work. The WPA was run by Roosevelt’s right-hand man, Harry Hopkins, a former social worker and public health administrator. Hopkins was a firm believer […]
We Still Shall Strive January 20th, 2016 @ 7:50 pm PST
We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately — but we still shall strive. We may make mistakes — but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle. I remember that my old schoolmaster, Dr. Peabody, said, in days that seemed to us then […]
On Neutrality February 22nd, 2015 @ 6:48 am PST
[W]ith a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong. Theodore Roosevelt – February 22, 1915
On health insurance … February 12th, 2015 @ 11:50 am PST
The only people who don’t think the entire health insurance system in these United States is irreparably, tragically, insultingly broken are the incredibly healthy and the absurdly wealthy. Everyone else is screwed, and we know it. And yet nothing changes because the incredibly wealthy make the rules.
Four legs good, two legs better. February 5th, 2015 @ 7:18 am PST
What bothers me the most about the recent cyber-hack of the Anthem BlueCross system is not that a company that large and that profitable — one tasked with the care of the most personal data of millions of Americans — did not have adequate security in place to prevent such a thing from happening. That’s […]
