I woke up this morning to find nine emails relating to comments requiring approval on my healthcare post from yesterday.
“Yikes”, I thought, I’ve woken a sleeping monster and a screaming mob are baying at my blog demanding my head for comparing the UK system favourably with the US. Given the attitude of some of the [...]
Further to my previous post on the ‘debate’; The last couple of weeks I’ve finally had direct contact with this “finest healthcare system in the world, what do you mean it’s broken and needs fixing, you unAmerican, you?” healthcare system. And speaking obviously as an outsider, I’d just like to say;
“This system is broken and [...]
I love it when LGBT rights opponents manage to make our arguments for us.
Like Senator Chris Buttars of Utah, who says he will block a proposed inclusive Salt Lake City anti-discrimination bill because, and this is a direct quotation:
“I don’t think the discrimination they scream about is really real”.
This in Salt Lake City, home of [...]
Just before I went to bed last night I saw the news that Ted Kennedy had died (and I’m sorry, no matter how long I live in this country, I’m never going to use the rather mealy-sounding ‘passed’), and was deeply saddened. Not in a “oh no, my despair is deep and personal” sense, because [...]
Among the very many hard-to-classify films I’ve seen in my time, District 9 is one of the hardest. And that’s a good thing, because too many films these days are a high concept with no high plot to support it.
I really don’t want to give too much of the plot of this one away, so [...]
This week has been, in various different ways, a living hell.
The signs were never propitious: two separate trips to two different parts of the country spanning three days and six flights (including connections). The first trip involved driving down to San Jose to catch a flight, then back up from there late the same day; [...]
Just a quick addition to yesterday’s ramble.
Last night Rachel Maddow took a look at some of the prominent “healthcare reform is a secret plot to kill old people” voices and highlighted their rank hypocrisy.
Even they don’t believe it.
Warning - this is a highly simplified and probably simplistic view - which sadly is part of the point. It’s also meant to be for the enlightenment of those non-US people still listening to my witterings more than the US folks, who clearly know more about this stuff than I do or ever will. It’s [...]
Pretty much since Proposition 8 passed here in California back in November, there’s been a drive to get a repeal motion in front of California’s voters. The various voices of the LGBT community is the state (and beyond) have, over the last nine months, been tying themselves in knots setting up discussions/meetings/polls to try and [...]
There’s a lot of stuff going on here at the moment, not all of it good, and some of it categorically bad, so occasionally doing that “getting the most out of being in SF” thing I blogged about last week feels increasingly important. Of course, finding the time in amongst all this stuff is the [...]
