Not content to have wrested from their lackeys on the Supreme Court the right to exclude from Medicaid millions of low income citizens of Repugnant governed states, the punks infesting the lower house of congress writhe in continued agony over their impotence.

They promise, therefor, continued frivolous lawsuits, such as the one presently in train purporting to object to the extension of federal subsidies to low income consumers seeking coverage on the (fallback) federal exchange, Healthcare.gov.

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Louis Scarcella, Brooklyn homicide detective (retired), was not a guy you would want to meet, especially if you were a person of color who was innocent of a crime that needed to be cleared. (Cops dislike inventory just like Walmart dislikes unsold crap).

If you have not been following the saga, Scarcella had amassed a remarkable,( indeed incredible...) series of successes bringing quick arrests and smooth convictions in hundreds of homicides.

His stock in trade was the coerced (or even fraudulent) confession, the perjured testimony of jailhouse snitches, and the convenient disposal of excupatory evidence. [Read more]

(This is a blog I have altered thru the years, but I decided to repost it at this last minute for 2013! Not a lot of action here at this time of year, but what the hell!)

WHY WE SHOULD GIVE THANKS

I have written afore concerning my doubts about an expanding universe.

If the universe is expanding, what in the hell is it expanding into? [Read more]

If the Republicans had contented themselves with blocking only one of Obama's nominees for that Washington appeals court they'd have gotten away with it. By blocking all three they went too far. And, given the number of vacancies,put Obama in a position to appoint enough new judges to make a significant improvement in how our laws are interpreted.

Oh I wanted to tell a story. I saw my granddaughter a couple of weeks ago.

I witnessed miracles two weeks ago when I again had the opportunity to visit with my grandchild.

My daughter-in-law has a degree in education. That's fine, my son as a degree in Accountancy. 

So she finally takes a job at this pre-school (we used to call it nursery school) and gets a discount for her daughter to be enrolled there.

Mama really spends her time changing diapers in this upper middle class version of baby sitting; well beneath her educational level. Or is it?  [Read more]

Today, I started a new position with a non-profit human service organization in NYC. A very large, very old, very respected one.

Not that the size and age are relevant to anything; it's JIC you can read between the lines. [Read more]

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree [Read more]

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree [Read more]

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree [Read more]

ocean-kat’s recent blog about secessionists, struck a chord with me and reminded me that I needed to finish writing this piece.  It is a topic which has been tumbling around in my mind for a long time.

I was on Facebook a while back, having a discussion with a friend. She is a single mother living in the UK, and doesn't like being told she must get her child vaccinated.  [Read more]

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A poignant letter to the New England Journal of Medicine should serve to focus our attention on the less sensational but more important component of Obamacare.

While the media clucks over the feckless code writing that has sprayed egg over the collective faces of the administration hacks who are endeavoring to snatch efficacy from the jaws of a Rube Goldberg contraption whose very inception was tainted by obeisance to the "free market", the expansion of Medicaid will mean the difference between life and death for thousands of lower income Americans.

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