ACA Signups: Relapse, Hearing, Payments + Updates
The shingles attack that brainwrap has been suffering from has apparently gotten into one eye. He is pulling back on reporting the numbers again, so we only have one number so far today.Update: No he...
View ArticleACA Signups: 15,000 lives saved
BENGHAZEEEEE!!!That's how bad the Obamacare numbers are for Republicans. Especially the HHS report, quoted below, of 15,000 lives, more than half a million other infections and injuries, and $4...
View ArticleACA Signups: Graph Update
The Graph, UPDATED with 1 major addition & 2 major changes!I've added in one more section to The Graph. The OFF-Exchange QHP section is now broken into three areas: Documented (ie, specific hard...
View ArticleACA Signups: The Uninsured
There are several documented reasons for tens of millions of people in the US to lack health insurance. There are remedies for all of them: ignorance and misinformation (especially about Medicaid), the...
View ArticleACA Signups: Premiums—Up or Down?
Another Republican talking point debunked.Year Two: More competition, new premiums all over the mapIn spite of all the hand-wringing that people have had about the insurance company premium rates for...
View ArticleBreaking: Marriage Equality Suit in South Dakota (updated)
We are about to run the table. Lawsuits filed in Montana yesterday, South Dakota today. That leaves North Dakota with no lawsuits (but see further news below), and Tennessee and Mississippi with...
View ArticleUndeluding the Deluded
How can we peel away Whites who are oppressed by Republicans from the Republican Party? Surprise! It's already happening by the millions each year.In Zen Buddhism we call the discovery of compassion...
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ND Marriage Equality Suit Followup
Case to be Filed against North Dakota’s Same-Sex Marriage BanThe case is expected to be filed by Joshua Newville, a Minneapolis-based civil rights attorney. Newville also filed the suit against South...
View ArticleThey are all RINOS on this bus
Each of the Republican factions considers the others to be either illegitimate, or at best (if they behave and vote as ordered) as Useful Idiots. (I agree, but for different reasons. There are no...
View ArticleBREAKING: Ruling for Marriage Equality in Indiana UPDATED
Marriage equality advances after wins in Indiana and UtahGay marriage wins in Indiana and UtahU.S. District Judge Richard Young, a President Clinton appointee, struck down Indiana’s ban on same-sex...
View ArticleA Republican Bestiary
We agree that the Republican Party agenda is evil. So do they, but each faction claims that it is only the extremists (the Rightist Adventurists, in an inversion of Communist jargon) or the RINOs (the...
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Same-Sex Marriage Celebration in Indiana
My cousin Alexa Lemley, on the right in the picture, and her longtime life and business partner Samantha Aulick just got married. Alex and Sam eloped from Columbus, Indiana (an hour south of...
View ArticleGrokking Republicans Book List
I would like to help you understand the minds of Republicans and what we can do about that, which means that I have to apologize before we even start, for what I am about to expose you to. In this new...
View ArticleGrokking Republicans: Cognitive Dissonance
Why, we all want to know, do Republicans believe in nonsense that has been repeatedly debunked over decades, and in some cases 150 years since the Civil War? And, to be fair, why do other people...
View ArticleEbola News Today
The new experimental ZMapp Ebola therapy appears to be working, maybe, and there is new money for Ebola treatment on the ground in Africa, plus a possible vaccine going into trials.Ebola trial drug...
View ArticleGrokking Republicans: The Theory of the 1%, Part 1
When Mitt Romney deliberately inverted the division of society into Makers and Takers, students of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class understood exactly where he was coming from. The heart...
View ArticleGrokking Republicans: The Theory of the 1%, Part 2
It is not news that the Leisure Class is socially and economically conservative, even reactionary. But we are not accustomed to seeing, as Veblen invites us to, how pervasive certain invidious habits...
View ArticleHow to Solve Global Warming
We know what to do about Global Warming, but we do not all know that we know what to do, much less that we are doing it. Nobody in the media, Right or Left or neutral, reports on what is really going...
View ArticleGrokking Republicans: The Non-Cooperator's Dilemma
To create More and Better Democrats means to increase cooperation. Punishing cooperation is the declared Republican mission. The Evolution of Cooperation, by Robert Axelrod, proposes a theory that says...
View ArticleSouth African Calls to Boycott Israel
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu have both called for boycotting Israel.In arguing whether Israeli policy is comparable to Apartheid, I have always been...
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