Propagandhi apparently came out with another album in 2009, and I didn't hear about it until now. Sheesh.
Ever feel like you've moved away from your roots?
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it."
Other peoples' pain sometimes puts yours in perspective.
The problem with health care comes when you try to make money off of it, or more accurately, when you try to squeeze more money out of it than will naturally flow out as a byproduct. Cost is very often correlated with quality of care, or with results.
Ethically, any time you make a system where someone is financially rewarded for providing worse care - even potentially - that's just proof of a badly designed system.
Look at law.
A lawyer in a situation where he could profit from giving his client worse representation would absolutely be unethical. He would be expected to do his utmost to not put himself in that position.
So why do we put medical doctors in a situation where they have to worry about costs, if the priority is supposed to be the best care available? Why do we allow corporations involved in medical decisions to profit from cost cutting?
Either we need to say - yes, lives really are worth a finite amount of money, and we should abandon all pretense otherwise - or we need to systematically disallow money from being a consideration in treatment of patients.
From NineMSN:
A woman with a medical condition that makes her have more than 300 orgasms a day says she has finally found happiness — thanks to her “sexually-charged” new boyfriend.
British woman Michelle Thompson suffers from Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS), meaning she has an insatiable sexual appetite and can climax at any time without warning. Ms. Thompson, a mother of four, said her longest relationship had lasted five years and ended with her boyfriend leaving an “exhausted . . . defeated man.”
“Andrew has changed my life … I’m no longer looking for a cure for my orgasms — I’ve found it,” she said.
This is just harrowing to read.
How can I forgive this? Because carrying that hatred around was hurting me more than helping me. It made me feel ashamed and angry. I was guarded, jaded, and bitter.
No rant from me today. People ask me why I voice disappointment in our society and it doesn't get more clear than this: for certain crimes, the victim is the one who has to change.
BLANCHE
Whither the money, Lebowski? Faith, we are servants of Bonnie; promised by the lady good that thou in turn were good for’t.
WOO
Bound in honour, we must have our bond; cursed be our tribe if we forgive thee.
BLANCHE
Let us soak him in the commode, so as to turn his head.
WOO
Aye, and see what vapourises; then he will see what is foul.
[They insert his head into the commode]
BLANCHE
What dreadful noise of waters in thine ears! Thou hast cooled thine head; think now upon drier matters.
WOO
Speak now on ducats else again we’ll thee duckest; whither the money, Lebowski?
THE KNAVE
Faith, it awaits down there someplace; prithee let me glimpse again.
WOO
What, thou rash egg! Thus will we drown thine exclamations.
[They again insert his head into the commode]
- Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, by Adam Bertocci
(For my own take on Shakespeare, see: Soliloquy III)
From the BBC Pacific:
Church officials say that although the word Allah originated in Arabic, Malays have used it for centuries to refer generally to God, and Arabic-speaking Christians used it before Islam was founded.
This comes on the heels of an argument in the US over what the most neutral term for divinity is - an argument that included the terms "God," "Jesus," and "Allah."
The Romans believed that names could determine personality.
What kind of influence might the name "Dick Idol" have?
In the end you have to make a choice - all this desire to be 100% sure is basically a desire to have the choice taken out of your hands.
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