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Single payer has its advocates. Without offering a conclusion, seems to me the most favorable per capita healthcare outcomes at lowest per capita cost would seem an obvious selection criterion. BUT : There would seem to be a Darwinian dynamic regarding free-market healthcare. Citizens that...

As you know Bill Maher is a compulsive satirist. One possible explanation for the #1,102 Maher quotation is Maher is wrong. But, I suspect Maher may deliberately have been making an obtuse jab at the shallow male ego, the aspect of the male personality that concludes, if she's not clamoring to...

Santa! Can I have one by Stephen Hawking ?

hmmm So perhaps it can help a mutation to succeed if it first proliferates within a population. Cart before horse?

South of the Canadian / U.S. border, Rhine is fine. North of the border, Chardonn ehhh. 🎅

Then with whom would they negotiate Ukraine's surrender? No. The U.S. is already delicate about such assassination despite Fidel (didn't the U.S. have five failed murder plans / attempts against Cuba's Fidel Castro?) since the JFK assassination, because U.S. policy makers think if we attack the...

"The definition of a pedophile" may not "matter" to those entirely uninterested in the welfare of the females involved. I'm not disregarding the utility of law enforcement. But if U.S. public officials perpetrate sexual misuse of children I'm not prepared to ignore it if perpetrated outside U.S...

Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow Mon, December 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM EST MOSCOW (AP) — A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in just over a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack. Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head...

A Republican supporting Trump on Venezuela: Graham calls for regime change in Venezuela as Trump admin ramps up pressure by Ian Kayanja / Mon, December 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM While speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" with Kristen Welker, Graham claimed Donald Trump wouldn't be going back on a...

US accused of stealing oil after intercepting third Venezuelan tanker Published On 22 Dec 2025 The US is pursuing a third oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. The operation followed the US Coast Guard’s interception of a second vessel on Saturday. Venezuela called the...

"Admitted"? Can you quote with link? Do you dispute the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines? Which one/s? Or more broadly do you dispute vaccine validity? Live virus vaccines may be shifting to disfavor. Two standards of credibility come to mind: authority, & validity. In this medium at...

The explanations I've read indicate a COVID-19 vaccination recipient may still contract COVID-19, but the symptoms are likely to be less severe. The definition of pedophile is not jurisdiction dependent.

This illustrates a skew potential of interpersonal relationships which seems to fester. As posted it may help lighten the year-end mood. But it also hints of an underlying mismatch more common than we may wish to believe. An MD & a JD (doctor & lawyer) are backpacking around the bend of a...

hmmm Must be true then, doesn't make much sense at all. Trump has claimed justification, that for each person he kills murders this way saves multiples of that from the U.S. population. Perhaps. Not yet clear what particular specification in law authorizes such presidential preemptive carnage.

Understood. My intended counterpoint in #1,829, matters of taste may lack the bright-line distinction that mass-murdering piracy retains. This doesn't excuse fashion clash. But if I am to expend a paragraph on criticizing the Trump administration, I believe there are more important more...

Trump's MAGA movement has not distinguished the GOP as particularly competent at governance. BUT there's an electorally decisive segment of our democratic republic that enjoys Trump's style of the capricious administration of injustice. Enjoying the suffering of others does not necessarily...

"Disgusting" Mr. White? Can you be more specific? "Disgusting" that Trump has pressed the bounds of good taste decorating our oval office in Gold, while skyrocketing healthcare costs for some in his jurisdiction? Not to justify or excuse demolishing an entire wing of the white...

The Bears squelched the Packers in OT last night, an entertaining come-from-behind Bears win.

In high school biology class I was taught though sickle cell anemia is a severe disease, it imparts some protection from malaria, thus imparting some benefit to those afflicted. Not sure I'm buying it. But it was the inspiration for my #1,096. Wilson switched my light-bulb on. Until then my...

Is that part of Trump's attraction for voters? Trump gives them a prominent elected official Trump voters can feel superior to? I never felt superior to Obama.