Epic Fail: The (Relatively Short) Confessions of an Insurance Company Chairman


Controversy When Barack Obama was running for President, I was excited about his proposal for health care reform. He was committed to a goal of universal coverage, setting some ground rules at the national level for the messy state-regulated health insurance markets, a massive expansion of Medicaid/SCHIP coverage for folks who made too much to … Continue reading Epic Fail: The (Relatively Short) Confessions of an Insurance Company Chairman

Trump-Clinton Economic Comedy and Minstrel Show


The American political comedy troupe known as the Trump-Clinton Economic Comedy and Minstrel Show had another great week. Led by off by comic Donald Trump, wearing a Deep Eddy Ruby Red-stained bar towel on his head, we heard that: Federal unemployment figures are a hoax He’s going to require that American steel be used to rebuild the USA’s … Continue reading Trump-Clinton Economic Comedy and Minstrel Show

The Hot Breath of August: 71 Years of Nuclear Amnesia


After 71 years, hardly anyone remembers, and in a few more, no one will. In an instant, 70,000 people were incinerated, and a hundred thousand more would die, slowly, agonizingly, in the months that followed, their blood poisoned, their souls blackened, their ashes floating on the hot breath of August. For years afterwards, hardly anyone … Continue reading The Hot Breath of August: 71 Years of Nuclear Amnesia