I don’t know everything that changed from the glorious 50’s, but here’s one. If you lived in my small home town in 1955 and your dad had a heart attack (myocardial infarction), he’d be transported by hearse driven by the undertaker (which doubled as an ambulance) to the hospital, placed in a regular hospital bed, …
Archives for March 2011
Pissing Off Liberals
Mike Huckabee’s statement about Obama’s Kenyan upbringing is another example of a right-wing shibboleth, or tribal affirmation. John Quiggin at Crooked Timber has an excellent piece on how the absurdity of shibboleths serves reinforce tribal membership. Building on that essay, David Roberts at Grist examines the tough time media has dealing with this kind of …
“David Brooks Will Decide When It’s Time for You to Die”
In a post that I sincerely hope will be emailed to Mr. Brooks by all his most au courant frenemies, Tom Scocca at Slate discusses the Politics of Entitlement: “We’re going to be doing a lot of deficit cutting over the next several years,” David Brooks announced, plurally, in their column in today’s New York …
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Open Thread: “… Like Bad Reality TV”
Dana Milbank on the breaking “Issa press aide scandal”: … The latest symptom of our deformed political-journalistic complex presented this week, when news broke that the office of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House committee in charge of probing the Obama administration, had been secretly forwarding private correspondence with journalists to an author …
Otto Titsling Open Thread
I’m having an amusing discussion with some Facebook friends about the weight of a boob. This discussion led to a friend weighing her boobs on a kitchen scale. They were lighter than I imagined they would be, coming in under two pounds each. (I would have guessed 4 pounds, easily, given her DD size.) I …
Incremental Progress at the National Sausage-Making Factory
The Washington Post reports that the “House passes stopgap funding to avert federal shutdown“: The House on Tuesday approved a stopgap measure that would keep the federal government funded through March 18 and cut $4 billion in spending by targeting programs that President Obama has already marked for elimination. __ The proposal, which passed the …
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Look Who’s Talking
Oh good grief: A fetus has been scheduled as a legislative witness in Ohio on a unique bill that proposes outlawing abortions after the first heartbeat can be medically detected. Faith2Action, the anti-abortion group that has targeted Ohio to pilot the measure, called the in-utero witness the youngest to ever come before the House Health …