Monday Random Blogging
January 28, 2008
Oh my. You folks are hard to hide from. Always lurking. Always looking for a way to just not think about what you should be thinking about. Hey, what’s another couple minutes away from the things you should be doing, right? Sure. And if you can’t find it here, you’ll find it. Because you’ll keep looking. You always do.
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I know, let’s take a peek at the presidential primaries: Ew. Never mind.
I mean, come on, the Dems are now fighting amongst themselves about whether or not Bill Clinton was the “first black president.” There is no hope.
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Speaking of Dems, can someone please tell me why universal health care is not being seriously addressed in the Vermont State House? Wouldn’t this be a good time for the Dem-majorities to use their muscle and draw one, big line in the sand with Governor Douglas on the health care issue? You know, something like passing a universal health care bill that covers all Vermonters just like Dr. Dinosaur covers all children? Put it on Douglas’ desk. Let him veto it if he so desires. But at least show some guts and pass something you believe in and that you know Vermonters need.
Instead, the Dems and the increasingly indistinguishable Progs are putting all the firepower of their “super-majority” status into a true half-measure: H.304, the bill that would provide universal hospital coverage to all Vermonters. Hospital coverage is great. But full medical coverage is what’s needed.
Besides, it seems pretty obvious to me what would happen if H.304 became law. As soon as Vermonters start dropping the hospital coverage in their health plans, the insurance companies will respond with steep increases to their non-hospital coverage plans. And then we’ll just be in a more confusing mess.
That’s why any plan to fix health care that continues to give health insurance corporations a central role is a waste of time. Worse, it’s a plan that will only serve as speed bump on the road to a single-payer system.
If Vermont can have a socialized lottery, why not socialized medicine?
And let’s not forget that we’ve also got a socialized police department, a socialized library, a socialized school system and socialized roads. Oh no! Where will it end?!
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“We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about us are dupes. But life is a sincerity. In lucid intervals we say, ‘Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities; I have worn the fool’s cap too long.’”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men”
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Existential Knock-Knock.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
No one.
No one, who?
No one you need to know.
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“Blame it on the weekends.”
- Modest Mouse
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I finally finished Brock Clarke’s “An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England.” And I know I’m not enjoying a book when it gets “lapped” by other books in the queue. My conclusion: Great title, mediocre book (at best). I’m a sucker in the pursuit of the new, hip novelist. And I keep slogging through one book after another like Clarke’s that should have been a mere chapter in a collection of short stories. But because the world of short stories has all but died (anyone know why?), these good kernels of a story are stretched and stretched into a wafery version of its meatier self. Too long. And the longer they go, the more contrived they feel. It’s too bad, because the heart of Clarke’s “Arsonist’s Guide” is, indeed, a very funny tale. It’s just 280 pages too long.
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Sorry, but I’ve got to get to work on the list of crap I’m planning to buy when my $300 tax rebate check arrives this summer. I’m so excited. I don’t know how I’m going to make it all the way to July.
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Goddamn, boy, turn on that Akismet spam thing I told you about already. Too much pingback spam!
Akismet spam thing? Are you making a pass at me?
are you hopeful about that pass thing?
You state that you will get a $300 tax rebate - which means that you paid no taxes last year. Yet you want universal health coverage.
You are an able bodied man who is underemployed by choice. The key word is choice. And now you want handouts on top of that?
You should be ashamed.
Here’s a thought: get a real job. Maybe then you can get your own health insurance, rather than wait for someone to hand you something that you haven’t earned.
He bums beer too. Doctor canceled his meds.