Grandpa and the GOP
The last couple of days my grandfather has come perilously close to death, and really should have died. He wanted to die. My grandfather is my hero, having grown up in grinding poverty on a farm...
View ArticleSticker absenteeism
So now I'm curious. Some people have remarked upon the potentially vanishing 'W' stickers of late. As a scientist I'm interested in objective measures of attitude change. I know that this wouldn't be...
View ArticleBrainstorming health care reform on Kos
I was just given my first assignment as part of my internship working for a health policy think-tank, and I find it somewhat amusing that the first place I thought of to get some ideas was Kos. But...
View ArticleKatrina's real numbers - need help
I'm doing a summary of Katrina's toll on the elderly and those in long-term care. I've got some direction but Kossacks are always superior in getting the real numbers. The editorial I've been asked...
View ArticleDoyle (WI) vetoes "health care conscience bill"
From The Wheeler Report, October 14, 2005 DOYLE VETOES HEALTH CARE CONSCIENCE BILL Gov. Doyle on Friday vetoed AB-207, the bill known as the "health care conscience clause," saying the legislation...
View ArticleTaking pharmacists to task.
I've had enough of this activist pharmacist movement. I'm looking for Kossacks to help me brainstorm ways to put serious pressure on pharmacists' colleges and professional organizations to "help" them...
View ArticleThe uninsured in battleground states
Reading the unfortunately increasingly prolific diaries about health care and uninsurance, it occurs to me that Dems need to look to the battleground states for pertinent health care statistics, and...
View ArticlePrinceton from the outside
The Alito hearings are stirring up an unusual conflict for me. Princeton. When I used to think of Princeton - having grown up middle class -- I think of hallowed halls of knowledge, progressive...
View ArticleMy moral uterus
I was inspired by another diary where the original diarist indicated s/he did not want children because the world is so nuts, and asked if having children might not be a good idea given the current...
View ArticleAppendix:MSM::Brainstem:News
As a high schooler, I wanted to be a journalist. I wrote lots of articles for my school paper, and was editor-in-chief. I won several awards, including a writing award for an editorial on the Supreme...
View ArticleSouth Dakota is making an attempt to ban all abortions
How do you all feel now about voting for Democrats that are anti-abortion just because they're democrats? "S. Dakota House Bans Abortion to Instigate Court Fightby Catherine Komp Feb. 13 - Lawmakers in...
View ArticleWY (R) Senator escalates war on women's health care
I forwarded this Planned Parenthood press release to everyone who would not kill me for sending out a mass political mailing. A lot of these anti-woman and anti-health care privacy bills are SNUCK...
View ArticleMedical denials eroding healthcare
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. This Post piece discusses (sympathetically) the health care professionals that make decisions for people and refuse them health care that is legal....
View ArticleWhy even good girls don't talk to Daddy
One of the main sentiments apparently underlying a lot of the support of bills like S403 is that daughters should be encouraged to communicate with their parents so that their parents can convince them...
View ArticleThe importance of being earnest
I couldn't believe this particular email that was sent out to the listserv. The spark that began the listserv flamewar was the president of this particular state's psychology advocacy organization's...
View ArticleReligion in politics survey
I'm sorry that this is going to be a very short diary, but I am hoping that some of you would be willing to complete a survey on your view of the role that religion plays and should play in politics. I...
View ArticleDon't torture my grandma, a**holes.
My grandmother was a legend in her time. She is in the broadcaster's Hall of Fame, and was the first female CEO of a radio station. She came from a family of radio royalty, and met my grandfather...
View ArticleBread and Circuses
I was almost a journalist. In high school, I won all kinds of awards for journalistic writing. I was the Editor-In-Chief of the school paper, and I got several invitations to enter from year one...
View ArticleWhile we all sleep - they delete abortion on Monday.
Everyone has been so distracted by the election that no one has been paying attention to single issues -- and by this single issue I mean abortion and reproductive justice. Well, while we were...
View ArticleMy dearest brother...how could you?
Dear Brother, You know what I do for a living. You know that I work to make sure that the underserved and uninsured get proper and evidence-based healthcare, especially reproductive health services...
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