Cure for Drug Gouging.
It seems to me that the solution to the drug cost problem is to eliminate patent protection for drugs. This is so that there will be competition in the drug industry. The argument that we need incentives is bullshit. Let the drug companies that don’t like being prevented from screwing the public, go out of […]
McLUHAN’S MESSAGE
This las year culminating in the nomination of Donald Trump has convinced me that the concept of the 24/7 news channel, which at one time seemed promising, is an unmitigated disaster. There is not enough significant news to fill the airways and pressed for profits (ratings) or they don’t survive, they opt for the most […]
REPUBLICANS AND RACISM
The republican party is now clearly racist. They ate up the birther argument and reacted in concert with Trump’s claim Obama wasn’t born in the US. The implication was that when he was born, his mother knew he was going to run for president and so falsified a birth certificate. Considering the legs that this […]
REPUBLICANS AND EDUCATION
The ignorance of the American electorate is obvious. One need only follow our election campaigns and see who gets elected. Madison said 250 years ago and it is emblazoned on my high school that “Education is the true foundation of civil liberty.” This ignorance can be reduced with proper education. Fundamentalists in particular, fanatically resist […]
REPUBLICANS VS. LABOR
Back in the thirties, the growth of the labor movement gave rise to the middle class. In unity the worker got the strength needed to demand what they wanted. Industry eventually was forced into a 40 hour week, had to pay workers a decent wage and provide benefits or they would face strikes. Companies didn’t […]
REPUBLICANS AND ME
I am at my ripe old age a liberal and I guess will always be, despite a famous quote erroneously attributed to Churchill that one must be conservative at thirty-five. I am also a democrat. There was a time, long gone, that I could have entertained voting for a republican. I should add that I […]
The American Nuthouse
Well, we’ve done it. Donald J Trump, politics’ answer to the Kardashians and the Housewives of New Jersey is the presumptive nominee of the republican?? party. A monster created by the visual media for money and the ratings of a reality show is now the nominee of one of the two major parties of this […]
Climate Change
Man made climate change is real. But it’s not only the CO we dump into the atmosphere, which is bad enough, it’s also the destruction of the rain forests. No plants = no oxygen. The deniers are sick. Even if it weren’t proven, there’s enough evidence to indicate that it certainly wouldn’t hurt and might […]
Why are Republicans?
Trump has demonstrated something very interesting. Most republicans are not conservatives. They are republicans, regardless – born that way, parents that way, friends that way, church that way, club that way, neighborhood that way etc. If you ask most, not all, republicans why he or she is a republican, my personal experience is that they […]
The Disgrace called Media
TV networks are so panicked to call the election first, that they can’t even wait until people are finished voting. Brian Williams tried to explain the dilemma MSNBC has in the NH primary that everyone is doing it so they have to. They don’t. The minute the polls closed but before people voted, they made […]
