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Migraines and Misc.
Aug. 4th, 2009 06:36 amI had a migraine yesterday, one so bad it made me understand vividly why people with chronic pain sometimes kill themselves (note: I am NOT suicidal, just compassionate), and am still in that shaky, weak post-migraine phase. The worst thing about this migraine is that I just can't identify the trigger. Usually I can point to something and say "that's it". This time, nothing (well, possibly that I exceeded my two drink limit over the course of the weekend, but three drinks over the course of two days should not be able to do this to anyone)
I've been battling on Twitter for health care under my LJ name. The longer I'm at it, the more the babble in GOP brains goes like this:
1. I don't want anyone to get anything they don't deserve
2. I want mine, but don't understand the economics of mine
3. "Those people" who don't deserve health care is almost always a code for people of color
4. I actually do want help from the government, but not at the cost of helping "those people" too
5. I live in a fantasy world where someday I will be as rich as the top 1%, and thus I'm terribly worried about their tax rate
6. I really don't understand the connection between taxation and good services
7. I'm willing to malign US government programs that by any objective standard are wildly popular and successful in order to claim that "government can't do anything right" (or "better than private enterprise")
8. People who are both Christian and libertarian have a morass in their brain's logic center that simply isn't penetrable, from holding two simultaneous conflicting views for too long.
9. I would MUCH rather believe lies and misrepresentations from one source on the internet than peer reviewed and well structured studies that don't agree with me. Especially if the one source is Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly
10. I don't have any real ideas, but I'm very, very loud.
Nonetheless, I keep at it, playing the kabuki for the sake of the audience, not the players, and doing my best to play bullshit whack-a-mole, knocking down lies and misrepresentations as fast as I find them.
I'm going to start blogging again, not as often, but I miss it too much to stay away. Here I am.
I've been battling on Twitter for health care under my LJ name. The longer I'm at it, the more the babble in GOP brains goes like this:
1. I don't want anyone to get anything they don't deserve
2. I want mine, but don't understand the economics of mine
3. "Those people" who don't deserve health care is almost always a code for people of color
4. I actually do want help from the government, but not at the cost of helping "those people" too
5. I live in a fantasy world where someday I will be as rich as the top 1%, and thus I'm terribly worried about their tax rate
6. I really don't understand the connection between taxation and good services
7. I'm willing to malign US government programs that by any objective standard are wildly popular and successful in order to claim that "government can't do anything right" (or "better than private enterprise")
8. People who are both Christian and libertarian have a morass in their brain's logic center that simply isn't penetrable, from holding two simultaneous conflicting views for too long.
9. I would MUCH rather believe lies and misrepresentations from one source on the internet than peer reviewed and well structured studies that don't agree with me. Especially if the one source is Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly
10. I don't have any real ideas, but I'm very, very loud.
Nonetheless, I keep at it, playing the kabuki for the sake of the audience, not the players, and doing my best to play bullshit whack-a-mole, knocking down lies and misrepresentations as fast as I find them.
I'm going to start blogging again, not as often, but I miss it too much to stay away. Here I am.
