I was in the Navy and this is the only interesting thing I ever saw. I was in the Naval Guard force tasked with guarding the ICMBs on a Sub base. Inside the magazine storage area there are 6 100ft guard towers manned 24/7/365 by armed sailors and marines. After guard mount, I arrived at the tower I was relieving and lo…

She did a hell of a job today, but she always does. So did Hirono. Well played and kudos to both of them.

You should show them this: “U.S. Has The Worst Rate Of Maternal Deaths In The Developed World”

Ask your friends if they realize that their employer is paying, on average, $6,000 for their insurance premiums each year. With the average American salary at roughly $58,000, more than 10% of their yearly compensation is already going directly to healthcare. And that’s before they pay their share of their insurance…

I’ve got to admit. I thought he was going to leave Trump’s stuff at

More importantly, I think everybody on every side of the political table wants to hear what Mueller wants to say. The only people who don’t are those who either have something to hide, or want to maintain their willful ignorance.

His schtick is so tired.

This should be antithetical to health care. Unfortunately, health care in the US has become a bottom-line industry that not only costs far too much, but also provides extremely poor results.

Your conservative friends have likely don’t have any serious long-term health issues or have had any major medical emergencies. Their tunes would likely be different if they had to pay for insulin, or epi-pens, or any long-term treatments. At some point, every single American is going to get railed by the healthcare…

 If that happened, Baraka would still be bitching that Bernie didn't do it while riding in on a unicorn. 

Shut up asshole.

As much as I wish it were so, Barr isn’t a thread you can pull and unravel the administration. He’s just another disconnected sycophant of 45's who was a convenient individual to put in the hole of that particular office.

The other thing that makes healthcare different in capitalism is that it is driven by paranoia and is essentially gambling. I can’t think of anything that more directly encroaches on our freedom or personal choice than that, yet the Republicans somehow have the monopoly on freedom rhetoric.

Market based solutions work when: walking away because it is too expensive is an option and choosing an alternative is an option.
Some things in health care are like this: what pill I take for allergies or head aches or getting lasik eye surgery. Most things in health care are not like this: heart attacks, cancer,…

A capitalist- (or market-) based healthcare system will always prioritize the bottom line over patient health. There’s really no way around that. So long as hospitals, clinics, etc. have to answer to a small group of shareholders, the goal will always be to maximize revenue; patient well-being is just a side-effect.

I’ve had Medicare for all/Universal medical coverage conversations with a handful of conservative friends and I think the thing that is always lost on them is how screwed up our system is.

Suit shopping while fat is an experience. Men’s Wearhouse calls my size the “Executive Line.”  Jos. A. Bank calls it a “Regal Fit”

I am a little sad to learn that Pap Hapsbong wasn’t a name, but that is marginally improved by searching for just Hapsbong and finding only three hits on google:

I feel like this take could easily be far hotter.