Health care is a moral issue
Matthew Gunter, a Facebook friend, shared a link to a fine blog post by Lavonne Neff today. It’s partly a review of a book by T. R. Reid, The Healing of America. Neff says...
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Counting the costs of war, one life at a time
Watch CBS Videos Online As @SkyPilot10 said on Twitter, this might make you want to weep. I have strongly opposed the war in Iraq, and while I don’t much like the war in Afghanistan,...
A moment of sanity in the healthcare debate
When Al Franken said he was running for the US Senate, I was skeptical. Even though he’s a known liberal with whom I was likely to agree, I thought “Oh, great, another celebrity-turned-politician.” Just...
When the world’s leading Bible authority speaks on health care…
Golly, I guess I was wrong. Just a couple of days ago, I posted about US myths of healthcare in other countries, and I added one person’s experience. Well, you can’t trust facts and...
One man’s experience of “socialized medicine” (the horror!)
Conservatives in the US keep evoking the specter of “socialized medicine” in any discussion about health care reform. Sure, I could point that that France has healthier, longer-living people at half the per capita...
Five myths about healthcare around the world
The airwaves are full of completely ridiculous commentary and flame-stoking rhetoric about plans to reform US health care. Most Americans don’t seem to want “facts”, preferring to stick closely to Colbertian “truthiness.” Well, the...
It’s been one of those weeks
A few weeks ago, I received the following comment from a regular reader of 7WD: “You’re a terrible blogger! I come to your blog every day, and sometimes it doesn’t change for weeks!” In...
Was THIS worth $300,000 and citywide panic?
You may remember the massive panic that ensued last spring when Air Force One showed up the skies of New York City for a photo shoot. This was a stupid project on any number...
Warren Buffett on the economy
I’ve been trying to make sense of all the pundits and prognostications about our economy lately. Mostly I’ve suspected two things, which might seem contradictory. First, this is all worse than we might want...
Herbert Festivall Poetry — The Call
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life : Such a Way, as gives us breath : Such a Truth, as ends all strife : And such a Life, as killeth death. Come, my Light,...
My letter on same-sex marriage in Rhode Island
I just emailed the following letter to several Rhode Island senators. Our state is currently debating passage of a bill to permit same-sex marriage. If you are a Rhode Islander so inclined, I hope...
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