GroupThink Made Simple

It’s all so clear now…

Thanks, PowerLine!

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Astroturf ca. 1773

I have a big backlog of posts to catch up on, but this was too good not to share it.  Courtesy of PowerLine.

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Medical Morality, Part 2

I hadn’t revisited the Medical Morality poll on healthcare providers providing abortions, what with the ginormous drama that is my grandmother’s illness, but since things have momentarily stabilized, here goes.
I’m really interested to know, in particular, three things.  Please address any of the questions in comments – and if you prefer, make up a name and email [...]

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Medical Morality

The current administration is considering rescinding the “conscience clause” currently observed by the Dept of Health and Human Services, which allows  health care providers to opt out of performing abortions (and still keep federal funding.)
So, a poll:
Feel free to comment in, well, the comments.  You can guess that as an emergency medicine HCP, bound by [...]

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Say What?

Apparently the Fearless Leader wants to reach out to “moderate” members of the Taliban to effect Change in Afghanistan.  (Frankly, I’d as soon *not* share his brand of Change with the rest of the world, but I digress.) 
Moderate Taliban.  Do they only use pebbles for their stonings?  Or what?
What a nitwit.

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Bread and Circuses

 … iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses.

(Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81)

… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once [...]

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An Early Feminist Speaks

No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death, but oh, thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, [...]

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Inauguration

The cast of characters was pretty much as expected.  The speech fit the usual inaugural mode.  The poetry was hideous as usual, and the prayers were characteristic of those delivering them.
The only interesting things to me were:
Is it Cheney, or Mr. Potter?

And Aretha’s awesome hat.  The hat was my personal favorite part of the entire [...]

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Continuous Zofran Infusion

I’m thinking it’s time to start a continuous Zofran infusion for, oh, the next week or so.  Between the ever-growing Obamania (lo, the cure for all the world’s ills has arrived!  Huzzah!) and the annual crap festival that is MLK day, well, I’m ready. 
I have no problem, really, with giving MLK a holiday.  Or giving civil [...]

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Hosanna!

The King has come!
Did anyone think to meet him at the airport with palm branches and a donkey?

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