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nightdog_barks) wrote2010-03-01 11:49 am
nightdog_barks) wrote2010-03-01 11:49 am
Monday with Rain
Cold rain -- 45 degrees (7.22 Celsius). Slept fairly well, although I had some odd dreams which I can't remember at all now (they were already fading by the time I woke up).
Anyway, here's a bit more of Craig Ferguson, from American On Purpose -- this is from when he was seventeen years old (putting it behind a cut because it's about gender stereotypes, and while I thought it was pretty funny in its adolescent male obliviousness, others might not):
Among my peers, the idea that any normal female would genuinely desire to have sex was dismissed as nonsense. We'd been taught from an early age that sex was shameful and bad, that men wanted it all the time because they were slaves to their appetites, and that women were good, they didn't like or want sex but would allow it in order to have babies, or because they were drunk, or English. No one actually said this out loud, it was just hinted at.
Also, what planet is George Will living on?
Twenty years from now, the country is going to be spending a larger portion of its GDP on health care than it is now for three reasons. We're getting older, and as we age, we get more chronic diseases that interact with one another. Second, we're getting richer; we can afford to buy more medicine. And, third, medicine is becoming more competent. Therefore, we're going to spend more on health care.
I'll just assume that's the imperial "we," kthxbai. Source.
Anyway, here's a bit more of Craig Ferguson, from American On Purpose -- this is from when he was seventeen years old (putting it behind a cut because it's about gender stereotypes, and while I thought it was pretty funny in its adolescent male obliviousness, others might not):
Among my peers, the idea that any normal female would genuinely desire to have sex was dismissed as nonsense. We'd been taught from an early age that sex was shameful and bad, that men wanted it all the time because they were slaves to their appetites, and that women were good, they didn't like or want sex but would allow it in order to have babies, or because they were drunk, or English. No one actually said this out loud, it was just hinted at.
Also, what planet is George Will living on?
Twenty years from now, the country is going to be spending a larger portion of its GDP on health care than it is now for three reasons. We're getting older, and as we age, we get more chronic diseases that interact with one another. Second, we're getting richer; we can afford to buy more medicine. And, third, medicine is becoming more competent. Therefore, we're going to spend more on health care.
I'll just assume that's the imperial "we," kthxbai. Source.
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This NPR piece on the teenage brain this morning cheered me immensely, since I have to live with a teenager:
The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124119468&ps=cprs).
ETA: And WTF is up with George Will and that "we" business that does not apply to the rest of us?
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That is the sad truth.
George Will reminds me of Rush Limbaugh, who loudly proclaimed that the health care he got after his heart attack was TEH BEST IN THE WORLD, and therefore we DUN NEED TO CHANGE IT AT ALL. Conveniently ignoring the fact that he's able to AFFORD the best health care in the world, won't be tossed out on his ass if the hospital decides, and won't have to worry about paying the premiums and bills. Because he's a zillionaire. Grrrr.
Some of these people are incredibly divorced from reality, and others apparently just don't care what they say because the mainstream media hardly ever calls them on it. I don't know which is scarier.
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George Will comfortably pontificating on money and health care falls into the same category of outrage.
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Wow. So ... that thing that makes people not want to get out of bed in the morning (as just one aspect) is ... a good thing? I don't think this writer or those people have ever been really depressed. I mean really depressed. Yowza.
I'm surprised they didn't drag out Winston Churchill as a GREAT example of what a depressed person can do -- see, you too can WIN WORLD WAR II IF YOU JUST FOCUS! Or maybe they did hold him up as a shining example ... I didn't read far enough to find out.
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Hee. Now there's one guy who doesn't give a flip about what he says and is obviously laughing all the way to the bank.
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I much prefer him to those mean-spirited little pissants John Boehner and Eric Cantor and Jim Bunning and ... oh, a bunch of others. *g*