I'm writing about healthcare in a desperate, but probably ultimately futile, attempt to communicate my romantic attraction to Ezra. Meanwhile, apparently Matt is apparently linking to me in the hopes that we can someday hook up. Perhaps I'll consider it, since my hopeless pining has availed me nothing . . . but wait! Is Ezra coming around? Even though I dress like a ditsy teenager? Tune in next week, same time, same station . . .
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21 Aug 2007 04:41 pm
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I keep thinking about your views on health care (sick people are at fault for their sickness) and your poor dog. I remember reading in your old blog about what happened to your dog, which was awful. And I remember feeling really bad for you, and I know you felt badly too. Sickness for yourself or a loved one is a terrible thing. So how do you reconcile the two? A dog isn't responsible for its own illness, but people are, I guess? Dogs don't deserve to suffer debilitating disease, but because there are situations where people are somewhat culpable for the conditions that lead to their illness, they deserve no compassion? It's a bizarre way of thinking, truly cruel and amoral. And just strange. I can't stop thinking about it.
Jason: Finding issue with Jane's contention that the sick and elderly are the REAL sweepstakes winners in the health care game is not, fundamentally, a difference of opinion about health care. It's a humane response to inhumanity--or an intellectual response to intellectual dishonesty.
And Jane's record on the war--prognostications, pronouncements, and prickliness about dissenters--says more than I ever can.
Right and wrong are not two different opinions. Jane shows this remarkable instinct for backing the wrong pony in a two-horse race.
But if I were Ezra, I'd break offa piece of that...
ps: Jane: You spend WAYYYYY too much time reading and cataloging what your detractors write to pass yourself off as bemused by the antics of the little people. Not to get all Krauthammer-y (diagnosing at a distance), but does Jane appear one tipple away from Althousing big-time...?
Keep on heroically fighting the inhumanity, j.
But if I were Ezra, I'd break offa piece of that...
She's several steps up from K-Lo, I'll grant you that.
You stay classy, j.
Didn't I do you at Harvard?
"What a strange place, this blogosphere. I've read the comments at Matt's and here and from what I've read you are apparently the worst person that has ever lived or will ever live. All because they differ with you about health policy and the war."
No, they generally say she's a bad writer and is sloppy with the facts.
You can disagree with someone without being a sexist nimord about it. "j" is a classic example of the left-wing sexist jerk.
You know, DC is not healthy for the smart, pretty, and tall. That's all I can say.
My friend Rob has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
He was a really fit person.
My friend Anne died of colon cancer.
She was a healthy person who liked camping and organic food.
Your theory sucks, Megan/Jane/whatever.
Dear Jane/Megan:
I am so sorry that your argument is linked to how you dress. It's the year 2007 for love of a mythic tortured man on a stick's sake, can we please get over Hilary's cleavage and your lack of taste in clothes and talk about what is important, your stupid uncaring calloused feelings towards your fellow human beings and how you can have compassion for an animal but not for suffering humans?
That this comes from supposed liberal lefty male bloggers proves Twisty Faster's point on men and how it always comes back to how a woman needs to please a man, for I am sure that if you were a "better" dresser aka tastefully sexy, Ezra would write something along the lines, "while her ideas on health care suck, at least she looks damn good in her dress."
Yes, men do hate you, too bad they hate you for the wrong reasons.
Has Megan/Jane actually said that sick people are at fault for their own sickness? Tsk-tsk if she did say that, or rather if she said "sick people are always at fault." (Some obviously are, particularly as you go down the socioeconomic ladder, where obesity and smoking are fairly common.) The real question, of course, is not whether sick people are at fault, but why other people should be forced to pay for their health care.
So let me get this straight: when a doctor says that obesity leads to a greater incidence of diabetes, heart disease, knee and hip failure, and other health problems, it's nothing personal.
When a doctor says that obesity is a preventable, treatable condition, it's nothing personal.
When doctors say similar things about smokers, it's nothing personal.
But when Megan questions the fairness of making you and I pay for people who consciously decline to get treatment for conditions that will almost certainly lead to further medical problems, she's a horrible human being?
Count me among the horrible, then.
Congratulations on your new gig, Megan, and I'm glad you're having fun. From the standpoint of grown-up discussion, though, I'm afraid the commentors here fare poorly in comparison to those at AI. (They needn't bother flaming me; I won't be reading the comments here any more.)
An excellent example of blog-induced pearl clutching by Megan.
You're attracted to Ezra Pound?! Wait, isn't he dead? And not exactly on your side of the fence, if you know what I mean...
this is exactly the sort of thing us wingnut bloggers denigrate the mainstream media for. you're a regular modo, megan.
please kill yourself.
From the standpoint of grown-up discussion, though, I'm afraid the commentors here fare poorly in comparison to those at AI.
Yes, too bad this place isn't infested with Ayn-Rand dittoheads like the commenters at AI. Because what could be more "grown-up" than blaming old people for being old?
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What a strange place, this blogosphere. I've read the comments at Matt's and here and from what I've read you are apparently the worst person that has ever lived or will ever live. All because they differ with you about health policy and the war.
Posted by JasonC | August 21, 2007 5:06 PM