Resolving Differences in House and Senate Health Bills
The long debate over health care reform has now reached the end game, but there are still some obstacles to overcome before they can get a bill to President...
Pre-Occupied
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, sat and wept, as we thought of Zion.
There on the willows we hung up our lyres,
for our captors asked us there...
Obama and The Google
I wanted to do a quick (hah!) analysis of news stories about President Obama, because I was going on my assumption that the news about him was particularly skewed...
An Outsider at Christmas
(I have always wanted to write about this, but have never had a place to do so. I hope you will indulge me here, at PlanetPOV. It feels safe...
MEDIA COVERAGE OF HEALTH CARE REFORM
WHAT THE MEDIA IS COVERING
A report from the Columbia Journalism Review notes that very little of the reporting on what to do about the health care system is actually...
MORALE
I AM DEMORALIZED
As a Progressive Democrat I am demoralized. Not so demoralized that I won’t vote, but still, pretty demoralized. It’s been about a nine month process, but I...
Progressive Senators to Contact NOW
If you have contacted a representative in Congress, other than the ones from your area, you soon learned that they only want to hear from their constituents. They want...
Not the Shortest Way
I got this e-mail this morning from a childhood friend. I just thought I’d pass it on, because yesterday Pepe LePew’s kindness in Montana touched me, as does this:
I...
Should We “Kill Bill”?
The Washington Monthly has a very good article about the health insurance reform debate over whether or not to scuttle the House and Senate bills and start over. They...
Hanukkah: the festival of light
The Syrian king, Antiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria and the Selucid Empire (175-163 B.C.E.), was both cruel and arrogant—typical of tyrants. The title he chose for himself, Epiphanes, is...