Please Cut The Crap on Health Care Discussions
I am really, really, really, really tired of the blatant, self serving, and manipulative lies coming out of the Right wing and the $1.4 million/day (look it up!) health insurers’ lobby regarding possible changes to the US health care system.
Over and over and over ad nauseum I’ve seen blogs and “tweets” and letters to the [...]
September 2, 2009
Tags: attitudes, common sense, Congress, conservatives, corruption, critical thinking, culture, health, insanity, rant, taxes Posted in: Insane 
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And then there’s this…
Some idiotic Chicago libertarian (or republican, depends on who you ask) so-called “shock jock” radio talk show host apparently had himself water-boarded the other day to “see if it was torture or not.”
Uh, I can answer that without having to bother anyone to tie me up or anything. Yes, it’s torture. Simple as that.
Apparently the [...]
May 23, 2009
Tags: conservatives, culture, insanity Posted in: Insane 2 Comments
We Hold What Truths To Be Self-Evident?
Tipsy Dazy has a comment here that challenged me to think long and hard about, well, everything, and particularly about communication.
Most of the people I have ever known do all tend to make assumptions regarding what is meant by a particular turn of phrase or word usage, (not to mention tone of voice, and so [...]
March 27, 2009
Tags: attitudes, common sense, Congress, conservatives, culture, helping others, positivity, taxes, thoughts Posted in: Sane No Comments
We The People…Make Your Priorities Heard
I’ve been interested in this relatively new website called “White House Two,” which is meant to give the man or woman on the street the opportunity to voice their priorities for the country to the White House and to their “fellow Americans.” Nearly 8,000 people have joined the site, including yours truly.
Not surprisingly, it’s questionable [...]
March 18, 2009
Tags: capacity building, common sense, critical thinking, culture, priorities, Resources, thoughts, Tips Posted in: Resources, Sane, Tips One Comment
Helping You
A newly found (and newly admired) fellow blogger really sparked my imagination today. His name is Rajesh Setty and his blog is Life Beyond Code.
In it, among many other useful thoughts and ideas, I came upon his exhortation that we should allВ “Increase our capacity to help other people increase THEIR capacities.”В In other [...]
March 3, 2009
Tags: attitudes, blogs, capacity building, culture, helping others, priorities, questions Posted in: Sane One Comment
Puritans need not apply
Look, I’m all for people having religious freedom, I really am.В I’m all for people believing whatever they want. I am, however, more than a little tired of puritanical people making decisions about what other adults can see and hear, say on television.
For instance we happened to be up at about 12:30 the other night [...]
February 26, 2009
Tags: censorship, common sense, culture, film, priorities, television Posted in: Insane 4 Comments
Critical Thinking is the Key
Having grown up in the USA, and been educated here, obviously nearly all of my experience is with American culture. Simply because of pure dumb luck, I was exposed through my work to some well-educated Americans who understood the importance of critical thinking, at the ripe old age of about 32, and who made a [...]
February 23, 2009
Tags: attitudes, business, common sense, critical thinking, culture, thoughts Posted in: Sane 5 Comments
The Importance of Keeping a Positive Attitude
When you look around, it’s easy to think that the culture in the USA is not one that lends itself toward caring for one another (though there is some hope among we liberal types that the tide may be turning to a degree.) It’s easy to get discouraged in these “interesting times” (as the Chinese [...]
February 5, 2009
Tags: culture, positivity, thoughts Posted in: Tips No Comments
