Monday with Rain

[nightdog_barks]

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.

Comments

[m-supercomputer.livejournal.com]

Or, for that matter, that Hawaii has a system (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/health/policy/17hawaii.html) in which everyone who works 20 hours a week gets provided generous health benefits by their employer, which is a much more ambitious fix to the system than congress has come close to considering. *g* The Daily Show had a great couple of pieces on that, a few weeks ago - another highlight was coverage of the RNC's Hawaii meeting, in which Michael Steele announced that it was a serious work meeting and they weren't there for a vacation. While wearing a lei and a Hawaiian shirt.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

LOL ZOMG MICHAEL STEELE!

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.

[m-supercomputer.livejournal.com]

I kind of perversely respect the guy for that sheer, blatant lack of caring whether anyone buys it. Of course the fact that my state's only two successful political exports are him and Spiro Agnew...sigh. *g*

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too! He's so utterly shameless -- he'd have absolutely no problem saying the sky is orange or grass is blue or unicorns live on the moon, and it just tickles the hell out of me that the GOP brought this on themselves.

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*