“You knew me the moment you saw me. You said I see with the wood’s eyes. That’s why you turned to Laurel. You were afraid of me.”
“Rois—” He was trembling; I could hear the leaves rustle around him. “Yes. You seemed to live in the borderlands of the world I tried to escape. You [...]
The Bush presidency is like being married to a sociopath. A McCain presidency would be more like being married to a drug addict — however badly he behaves, he could always sober up.
– Jonathan Chait, “A McCain Presidency Wouldn’t Be So Bad”
Except continuously making the excuse that your drug addict spouse could sober up leads [...]
I’m not sure if this is a new lesson, but [campaigning for the American presidency] reinforced my belief that we’re not as divided as our politics would indicate. You meet with the average person—I don’t care whether they’re Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal—they don’t think in labels. They’re not particularly ideological. Everybody is [...]
Left: Bad magazine cover. Right: Good magazine cover.
Nine years later, JibJab still has it.
(via all that glitters)
Julia Alison, you have done something amazing: You have made it onto my radar. I am absurdly myopic when it comes to Internet celebrities—unless they become targets of criticism on the Huffington Post. All those updates about your crazy lives just fly right over my silly head.
But then haven’t I seen your name tossed [...]
Yesterday, the House and the Senate voted to override Bush’s veto of a bill that would cut Medicare reimbursements to physicians. Cuts in reimbursements are correlated to the decrease of physicians who see patients on Medicare, leaving the elderly less access to health care. The funds to support this bill will come out [...]
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Posted 16 July 2008
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Tagged: congress, elderly, george bush, health care, health policy, house of representatives, legislation, medical reimbursemet, medicare, mike leavitt, public policy, senate, vetoes
