Television news is another area that used to be roped off from the profit motive. When Walter Cronkite died last week, it was odd to see news anchor after news anchor talking about how much better the news coverage was back in Cronkite’s day. I thought, “Gee, if only you were in a position to do something about it.”
Given that we all want health and spend trillions to “care” for it, it’s sobering how little thought we give to its true meaning. (more…)
The Getty Images Settlement Demand Letter is a deliberate attempt by Getty Images to intimidate and bully recipients (more…)
Joe Brown made a submission recently to the Michigan Republican House Task Force on Jobs. While the whole thing is worth reading, this part was especially hard for me to read.
Roughly half of the $700 billion bailout, Warren added, was “don’t ask, don’t tell money. We didn’t ask how they were going to spend it, and they didn’t tell how they were going to spend it.” (more…)
One big question still remains, though. Here it is:
If I were Frank DiPascale, Jr., and I saw what was happening in the summer of 2008, I would have put aside perhaps ten or twenty million dollars very quietly and gotten the hell out of dodge. (more…)
A few days ago, on CNN, I heard a woman say “The United States has the best health care system in the world”.
It does?
Well, if it did, you would expect it would be easy to find statistics to back this up. The US would show up at the top or near the top for all major health care statistics. Strangely enough, this doesn’t seem to be the case.
the American health care [system] doesn’t fulfill its prime directive — it does not help people become or stay healthy. It’s not a health care system at all; it’s a disease management system, (more…)
Hey! Maybe Bill’s been reading my blog!
Until we admit there are things we don’t know, we can’t even start asking the questions to find out. Until we admit that America can make a mistake, we can’t stop the next one.
Blogger beware! Blog comments that don’t seem to offer a whole lot may be cleverly disguised pornographic spam. This happened to me recently.