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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 5 years ago

  All demand and no supply in American health care policy debate

  As I worked on my forms for open enrollment, I took note of the differences in costs for each health care insurance plan. Yes, I have a day job. And there were only two plans…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 5 years ago

  It's hard to be United States as a nation of winners and losers

  Trounced. Defeated. Beat back. Captured control. A partisan air war. Winners and losers. That is a quick summary of the election headlines. Abuse, war and winners and losers.…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 5 years ago

  An emotional guide to the midterm elections

  I have been paying close attention to the emotional vitriol of the election news and the social media. It's a huge sales job that deflects from a systemic problem with American…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 5 years ago

  Proportional representation and the end of political dominance

  After watching the antics of both dominant political parties in America for the last 3 years, I've arrived at something that seems like an obvious conclusion: Dominance is…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #life • 5 years ago

  Waiting for sleep to find me

  I can fall asleep nearly anywhere, if I must. I've let myself catch a wink in an airport, on the plane, in class, at my desk, and in a noisy room. I have found that there are a…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #life • 5 years ago

  Scarier than Halloween: the loss of 60% of animal life on the planet

  Like millions of other parents, I took my kids out Trick or Treating last night. I saw some great costumes, tricked out houses and mobs of kids going door to door in a…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #humanity • 5 years ago

  A simple case for universal health care

  Universal health care is inevitable. The General Welfare clause of the Constitution permits it, so it will only be a matter of time and political will. If universal health care…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 5 years ago

  There's more to the race between Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz in Texas

  Democrat Beto O'Rourke is in a tight race with Senator Ted Cruz, for a seat in the United States Senate. Some polling shows that Beto is or has been within 4 points of Ted Cruz…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #food • 5 years ago

  Discomfort Food

  This is a long post due to my enthusiasm for what I've discovered. You might have already figured this stuff out by now. TL;DNR: Removing flour from your diet and replacing it…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 6 years ago

  Retaliation is not a political argument in favor of your cause

  I have been surveying the headlines of the latest mailbomber, a man who has been caught mailing bombs to critics of President Donald Trump. Once again, we are treated to a…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #life • 6 years ago

  On the discomfort of looking outside for happiness

  For the last year or so, I've been watching problems in my life solve themselves. I can't explain how it happens, but it happens. I've seen difficult people suddenly become…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 6 years ago

  What does a Charmin lovin' bear have to do with politics?

  So last night, I was watching a speech by Bernie Sanders, you know, that disheveled Senator from Vermont. God, how I love him. Every time he speaks, I am reminded of big money in…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 6 years ago

  American aristocracy is diametrically opposed to accountability

  In the past month, I read a few very interesting articles on what appears to be an aristocracy in America. First, there is "The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy", a…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 6 years ago

  How pop culture perpetuates the myth of change at the top

  I just finished watching Luke Cage on Netflix. There is some great writing and some not so great writing in it. There are moments where I had a hard time suspending disbelief in…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #life • 6 years ago

  How I learned to stop keeping score and let go

  I don't keep score anymore. I've tried and it really doesn't work. I don't worry about getting back at people who have done me wrong. I keep my side of the street clean. I err on…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #anarchy • 6 years ago

  The correlation between child abuse and corruption

  Children are the greatest imitators on earth. Whatever I do, my kids will do. We're built to learn that way. Everything a child knows how to do, all of that was learned from…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 6 years ago

  A thought experiment: a sleight of hand to confirm Kavanaugh

  As many of you may be painfully or happily aware as the case may be, Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed and sworn in as an associate justice to the Supreme Court. I don't feel…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 6 years ago

  Trump's culture of punishment and reward

  As I watch the men in the US Senate revel in the spoils of the victory they handed to Brett Kavanaugh, I have to wonder exactly what it is that they are celebrating. Did they…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 6 years ago

  Big money in politics is really an exchange of rights for privilege

  The same men who claim to believe in God also believe that God loves them even if they have to lie, cheat and steal to nab a 5th seat on the Supreme Court. 92% of Congress is…

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• digitalfirehose (58)in #politics • 6 years ago

  How we've all been played: Kavanaugh was just one part of Trump's negative campaign

  With Brett Kavanaugh confirmed and sworn in as a new Supreme Court Justice, Bernie Sanders must be rolling his eyes right about now. He knows that Trump is the master of the…

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