OneCareNow.org is the grassroots movement for a single payer plan in California, my home state. Granted that “Sicko” is a portrait of hand-picked facts made to strengthen his case, but I have long hoped for an overhaul of our health care system.
OneCareNow.org is supporting state Senate Bill 840, also known as the Kuehl bill [...]
I went to MacWorld last week. My first. Not my first trade show, though. Like many others who have lead the cubicle life, I’ve been to my share of trade shows. I still reached the EGO point (Eyes Glazed Over) after only a few hours. I suppose that means I’m in the wrong line of [...]
I subscribe to a daily digest from Wacco-BB, a Yahoo! group that serves as a great local bulletin board for the community where I live. I saw a post promoting a single payer health care bill called: California OneCare
Take a look at the video. I have recently become convinced of the necessity of this [...]
I like this site. The Masked Blogger, supposedly an Apple employee but who knows? Still, he, she, or they, post thoughtful comments. The Masked Blogger: Dumb Ass Thinking. This one was about the MB’s frustration at the ‘normal’ corporate behavior to be found at Apple, in spite of it’s “think different” public image. [...]
Okay, so here’s the top news I get from my daily delivery of the New York Times, online.
Star Power to Blood Sport, Tennessee Senate Race Has It - New York Times
Take a look at this article. Hell, take a look at every big media outlet, newspaper, television, or online. What you’ll see is lots of [...]
I’m an on-again off-again fan of MoveOn.org. Kneejerk reactions to issues and mailings full of exclamation points and angry rhetoric don’t thrill me. This isn’t MoveOn’s fault. They are full of concerned people trying to organize a complacent electorate. The language they use is the language of the times we are [...]
I don’t know about you, but since 9/11, I often find myself wondering what crack in reality I must have slipped through to end up in this strange parrallel universe. In this world, the Bush administration took a tragic terrorist act, and framed it as the “War On Terror”. And we let them do it. [...]