Category Archives: Politics

Poli­tics, what else, silly you.

Dancing (collaborating?) With the Devil

A post by Nancy Watz­man, keeps us aware of the Health Care Lobb­yists Part­ying and Fun­drai­sing with Con­gress this Week
For those who haven’t been to the site, the Sun­light Foun­da­tion has a Foriegn Policy Infleuence Trac­ker and a Visua­li­za­tion of the Health­care Lobb­yist Com­plex
Michael Moore (on Leno last night), on his film,

What To Expect As The Insurance Companies Try to Kill Health Reform, Again

OC remin­ded me of this Bill Moyers/Wendall Powell inter­view I saw a cou­ple of weeks ago. Although OC’s inte­rest lies with the medi­cal cost ratio, and bla­ming the peo­ple who own the stock (you, maybe me), my inte­rest lies merely with brin­ging this to your atten­tion, in case you mis­sed it.
Wen­dall Powell, a

In Sickness And In Health

Health care bothers me. To be pre­cise, the cove­rage of health care by the media bothers me, con­se­quently I spend a lot of time online stum­bling health care posts. Most of the posts are opi­nion pie­ces, but unfor­tu­na­tely that is all I have because there is little real health care repor­ting, and I think it’

Getting Your French Revolution On

It’s Bas­ti­lle Day. I know at least one per­son who looks for­ward to this day all year long, but I also know that many don’t know the his­tory of their own country, ( in my case the U.S.) never mind that of France. For those from the U.S., it’s OK if you don’t know