Oct. 7th, 2012

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“I read the way a person might swim to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”

-- Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese"
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“I read the way a person might swim to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”

-- Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese"
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The rising toll — 7 dead, 57 ill and thousands potentially exposed — has cast a harsh light on the loose regulations that legal experts say allowed a company to sell 17,676 vials of an unsafe drug to pain clinics in 23 states.

-- New York Times

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? I won't bother with the details. Even when you have liberal Democrats in power, this still happens, and Republicans continue to cry out about over-regulation. It's an old story. Our government and industry will respond to this particular travesty, when it is way too late, but there will be new fresh nightmares born of conscienceless corporations and negligent governments. One only wonders if it is getting worse.
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The rising toll — 7 dead, 57 ill and thousands potentially exposed — has cast a harsh light on the loose regulations that legal experts say allowed a company to sell 17,676 vials of an unsafe drug to pain clinics in 23 states.

-- New York Times

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? I won't bother with the details. Even when you have liberal Democrats in power, this still happens, and Republicans continue to cry out about over-regulation. It's an old story. Our government and industry will respond to this particular travesty, when it is way too late, but there will be new fresh nightmares born of conscienceless corporations and negligent governments. One only wonders if it is getting worse.

Marilyn

Oct. 7th, 2012 02:32 pm
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“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

-- Marilyn Monroe



Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller

Marilyn

Oct. 7th, 2012 02:32 pm
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“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

-- Marilyn Monroe



Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller
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These Christian-fundamentalist yahoo statements be Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia have been buzzing around the Internet:

All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior ... What I’ve come to learn is that [the Bible is] the manufacturer’s handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that’s the reason as your congressman I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I will continue to do that.

Andrew Sullivan makes an interesting point:

Of course, Broun is not stupid. He has an M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Georgia at Athens. He's on the House Committee on Science and Technology and chairs of one of its subcommittees on investigations. Fundamentalism is not about being dumb; it is an act of will to over-ride reality with totalist faith, so that nothing is left unresolved and everything can be explained by a single text, or a single religious leader. It is, in some ways, a neurotic response by many educated, intelligent people to live their lives according to something that cannot admit uncertainty or doubt.

It's religion fused with the the totalist claims of modern political ideology.


I marvel that I had not heard of this Broun character before, but we have more than our share of this type. You would have to go to a country such as Afghanistan to find as much religious radicalism as you can find in America. No wonder we are behind the rest of the developed world.

(Source: Sully's Dish)
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These Christian-fundamentalist yahoo statements be Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia have been buzzing around the Internet:

All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior ... What I’ve come to learn is that [the Bible is] the manufacturer’s handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that’s the reason as your congressman I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I will continue to do that.

Andrew Sullivan makes an interesting point:

Of course, Broun is not stupid. He has an M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia and a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Georgia at Athens. He's on the House Committee on Science and Technology and chairs of one of its subcommittees on investigations. Fundamentalism is not about being dumb; it is an act of will to over-ride reality with totalist faith, so that nothing is left unresolved and everything can be explained by a single text, or a single religious leader. It is, in some ways, a neurotic response by many educated, intelligent people to live their lives according to something that cannot admit uncertainty or doubt.

It's religion fused with the the totalist claims of modern political ideology.


I marvel that I had not heard of this Broun character before, but we have more than our share of this type. You would have to go to a country such as Afghanistan to find as much religious radicalism as you can find in America. No wonder we are behind the rest of the developed world.

(Source: Sully's Dish)

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Oct. 7th, 2012 10:36 pm
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