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Why the Farce Continues Without Impeachment

There are those, and I am among them, who are amazed that this administration has yet to run afoul of an impeachment effort in the House of Representatives. The difficulty is that we who are in favor see the issue as one of necessary justice and the absolutely critical defense of the Constitution, while Nancy Pelosi sees it in terms of what is possible.

Getting in the Game, When Representative Government No Longer Works

Every special interest is in the game. Boeing and Microsoft, Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry, everything from agriculture to zen has its lobby in the halls of the Congress of the United States. On a moment’s notice, the gun lobby or casino of your choice can marshal a quorum of lawmakers to get stuff done.

Clearing Off My Desk--Again

My periodic effort to keep my head above water. It’s been two and a half months and time now to clear off my desk again with brief acknowledgments and commentary on the stuff that was important to me and got run down by more immediate headlines.

Educating the Destruction of American Business

Customers no longer are crucial to the American commercial contract. That’s more than proven by automated telephone systems, impossibly repeating how important you are as a customer as you are simultaneously left on hold, captive to unending message tapes of the additional services available while this particular one is withheld.

Clearing Off My Desk

This is an experiment and of course, it’s not really clearing a desk but a computer-file; all the stuff that was immediate not so immediately ago. It's gotta be dealt with, shuttled off to long-term or ignored. We’ll see.

If it works, the title may appear from time to time.

Idiots in the Driver’s Seat at FDA

Anyone who even gives cursory attention to health issues in this country and the world, knows that the unprecedented use of antibiotics for everything from pneumonia to a case of the sniffles puts us at risk. The wonder of these wonder-drugs has run its course. We are on the threshold of massive viral resistance to the antibiotics we now depend upon.

Jim Nicholson’s Head on a Pike

Everything in the ‘affairs’ departments is busted in American government. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been America’s dirty little secret for a couple hundred years. Now, thanks to the first worthwhile piece of investigative reporting in recent memory, by Dana Priest at the Washington Post, Walter Reed Hospital has become the poster-child for neglected active-duty servicemen.

Scolding Barry Bonds

What was Babe Ruth on, besides too many beers? No one knows. 800 years before Christ, Greek Olympic contestants ate sheep testicles to enhance their testosterone levels.

A Pretty Hollow Complaint, Doctor

The AMA and their current president can lament until the cows come home, but they haven’t done a damned thing to provide medical care to the poor before it becomes a matter of emergency rooms. By then, the acute has become chronic. I doubt that anyone even vaguely connected with the self-righteous AMA has ever sat up with a seriously sick child and had no place to go.

Wal-Mart Does What Congress Won’t

But then, of course, roles are reversed so maybe it’s not so strange. The world’s producers bow to Wal-Mart, while Congress bows to the world’s producers. An entirely different dynamic operates between beggars and choosers. Unfortunately, our Congress has beggared itself to the lobbyists in recent years and made a nice little business of being paid off.