Month: September 2017

How the right lost its mind and embraced Donald Trump

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Trump Rally On The Mall

Well, Charlie, some of us Democrats have seen this coming for a LONG time, and are not even a tiny bit surprised!

This is a painful story for me to write. For a quarter of a century, I was a major part of the conservative movement. But like many on the right, in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory I had to ask some uncomfortable questions. The 2016 presidential campaign was a brutal, disillusioning slog, and there… Continue reading “How the right lost its mind and embraced Donald Trump” →

A stunned Puerto Rico begins to dig out after Hurricane Maria

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Hurricane Hits Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Maria reduced homes to heaps of wood and cement in the oceanfront settlement of La Perla, where hundreds of people picked their way down the rocky hillsides strewn with debris Thursday to salvage what they could from the wreckage. At the foot of an ancient fort, just outside the walls… Continue reading “A stunned Puerto Rico begins to dig out after Hurricane Maria” →

GOP is trying to bribe Sen. Murkowski by letting Alaska keep Obamacare

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Three other Republican Senator will not vote to repeal Obamacare without the development of alternatives

Lisa Murkowski is being wooed by Republicans to toss her vote toward Graham-Cassidy so they can go back to their districts and tell their constituents they voted to take away their health insurance. But boy, howdy, the bribe is…special. Basically, they are proposing that Alaska and Hawaii keep their Obamacare, because they like it, while they… Continue reading “GOP is trying to bribe Sen. Murkowski by letting Alaska keep Obamacare” →

Public service announcement

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This is the optimal week to get a flu shot. Your insurance probably covers it, and you can go to any local chain drugstore.

I’ve gotten a flu shot every year since that time about 15 years ago the flu turned into bronchitis, and then to pneumonia. God, did that suck. I couldn’t work for a month, and I was so, so sick. Plus, I hated that freaky crackling noise your lungs make when they’re under water. I never want to go through that again.

So I’m motivated. You may not be. But if you are someone who doesn’t have a problem with flu shots, go get it soon. I’ve already heard of three cases of flu in the past month, and it sounds like a bad one.