Monthly Archives: August 2009

Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance

A perfect explanation for those of us who are visual thinkers (Via Campaign for America’s Future):

Thank you.

Here is a provocative short expose by a New Jersey reporter wading through the town hall meetings that have come to resemble the Star Wars cantina scene:  “He doesn’t like you…I don’t like you either!”  Flash!  Light saber amputation!  Who’s paying for your health care now, hollow alien arm guy?!

As thoughtful as this journalist tries to be, I concur with John Atrios at AmericaBlog that he ends up trying to balance a woefully lopsided scale.  “True to form, the reporter felt the need to make an equivalence” — in this case between a town hall overflowing with hostile, misinformed conservatives shouting at a woman in a wheelchair, and one pro-Obama guy speaking up repeatedly.    You decide for yourself.

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Every team needs someone who can take it to the hole. Here is Ted Kennedy savaging a cutesy Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft on torture memos, like a lion, actually.

Randall Terry, anti-abortion activist who has been kicked out of his own church for hypocrisy, tries to undermine Dr. Howard Dean at a townhall on health care reform, because he cares so much more about the health of the unborn than the health of the living. 

NO, silly! He just likes attention!  And he gets it—as his ass is escorted out of the hall where hundreds of people showed up for progress instead of infantile disruption sabotaging desperately needed health care reform.  The real shame is that they are too busy shouting from the get-go to appreciate Howard Dean’s self-deprecating opening joke, clearly his reliable audience warm-up. (Via Velvet Revolution)

Here is a clip from the Hollywood Reporter Emmy Roundtable I shot with lead actors on dramatic series discussing their respective craft, grind, and trade-offs of cable versus network serires: Denis Leary (Rescue Me), Laurence Fishburne (C.S.I.), Bill Paxton (Big Love), Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Simon Baker (The Mentalist), and Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad). Revealing and fun to see how they all hit it off.

In case you wondered what counted as chotskies at the Cheney’s: Yes, it’s a monogrammed brand. (Via Wonkette)

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