And sometimes no one or very few people respond! No tragic enough? No dollars for you.

The US is the only industrialized country in which setting up a GoFundMe account is par for the course for trying to pay medical expenses. Our people have been conditioned to think that literally begging friends, family and strangers for help paying their medical expenses is a better solution than single payer.

Ha! Reading the first line, I was coming for ya! But realized you were joking quickly.

I like the cut of your jib.

If something bad happens to someone else, well, they are being punished for their misdeeds. If it happens to them, it’s all part of god’s plan, they’re being tested, etc.

I am generally not one to wish ill upon people, even people I dislike, but damn...she’s calling out for some good old fashioned karma. Like, all the cancer, everywhere. (All of them, really)

Sorry. It’s probably why I’m an atheist.

My question for evangelicals:

You have to let someone else win sometimes. Sometimes you have to let other people win.

Yeah, those guys are truly the real deal.

The past two wars have been about the freedom to have cheap gas. I wish that someone at the national level would point out that alternative energy is a national security issue.

That’s an interesting point. From my experience, though, it was definitely not immediately post-Vietnam. I served in the mid-late 80's and there was none of this hero worship then. No one ever came up to me in the airport and said “Thank you for your service.” (Thank god.) People were pretty ambivalent about military…

Exactly. I met some of the best people and some of the worst people in the military.

Most of the people who eat up that adulation, among my acquaintances at least, are the people who still define themselves by their service 30 years later. It’s almost like the jock-who-peaked-in-HS syndrome.

There’s a local businessman who has commercials on stating that he “proudly welcomes veterans” to his place of business and every time I see one I think “Are there a bunch of businesses out there who proudly exclude veterans? No. This is just pandering.”

I think initially the honoring the troops stuff was in good faith, sort of a “we fucked up during Vietnam when we spit on guys who had no choice but to go fight” realization. But over the years it has morphed into full on hero worship. The idea that every former member of the military is a hero simply by virtue of…

I thought “I Would Die 4 U” was an odd choice, though.

The cynic in me says it was kept undercover so it would bring big ratings when they show every fucking detail of the pregnancy and birth on the show.