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When betting, try to come down on the side of human nature. You'll be right that way more often than not.

You planning on adding this to your profile? We get it. You have nothing against gays. You just don't like "faggots".

This Headline in today's Bloomberg ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-04/powell-trashed-mmt-but-wall-street-sees-room-for-u-s-to-try-it ) grabbed at my collar and jerked me back, then I read the accompanying article, and the first thing that came to mind was WTF. See the...

jem, honey, shouldn't you make an effort to be politically more correct? You can catch more flies with sugar, honey, than with vinegar.

They'll keep it as supplemental insurance to cover the 20% that medicare doesn't cover. We can't afford to let private insurers continue to siphon off the young and healthy, as they do now,* and also give them the cost breaks that medicare negotiates. That would wreck the efficiency and...

You probably didn't notice the use of the subjunctive in the Title to the Fox Article. You could take a look at my response to gwb if you are interested in more detail re Baucas.

It is a myth of course that Democrats voted as a block, so there was never much choice in plans they could pass! The only way they could muster enough votes in the Senate to pass O'Romneycare was if Max Baucas, a "democrat" who had taken more money from the insurance lobby than any other...

This Fox headline is a wonderful illustration of how disinformation based on accurate information may be even more powerful than real information, depending on the messenger. Note the weasel word "largely" which keeps the lie out of the outrageous category and converts it to the...

That's what the "public option" was about. It was killed by Max Baucas in the Senate, with help from his Republican colleagues, all of them with hands in the insurance companies pockets. It is possible that it could pass after 2020 depending on the election outcome. What would happen, however...

It is painful to admit how effective these tactics are. It's because they appeal directly to our inborn, eusocial instincts. The best antidote is liberal education. This does afford some protection from political demagoguery, and demagogues seem to intuitively understand this.. I suppose...

There you go. You see, just like I said, the answer are known.

I believe there is every possibility that we will do still better than that . Educators have known for years how to fix our problems in education. There is wide agreement among experts.* So we already know the message. The right messenger, however, has yet to appear. I also disagree that the...

You will also want to be checking for listening devices.

jem, did you remember to check under the bed this morning to make sure the deep state hasn't placed any listening devices there?

I am optimistic that we may fix our primary and secondary public schools, the ones that need fixing, because we know how to do it, we just haven't done it yet. Choosing priorities, and what our long range investments should be are key. That may require political transformation to achieve. Bad...

As you know, political parties make their own rules and it is party insiders that determine those rules, not the general public. The internal operation of these parties at the headquarters level is not necessarily democratic (small "d") . The party may legally operate to strongly favor one...

This says more about the sorry state of Republican intellect then the 1% would like to admit. I'm certain such observations make them very uncomfortable. At least I hope so.

Oh. I should have known.

It looks now like they will.

Actually, I found her exceptionally articulate and her questions well thought out. She completely avoided grandstanding. How refreshing!