Medi(s)care
The little dust up over health care reform, and especially the role Medicare is playing in it, calls to mind this quote by G.K. Chesterton:
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being [...]
How to Read Without Reading
According to a recent Time Magazine poll, Jon Stewart is now “America’s most trusted newscaster.” To account for this phenomenon, I would choose two ways to basically state the same point: 1) Not to take anything away from the brilliant Jon Stewart, but it probably says more about the pitiful state of the cable news [...]