About irony and health care.... To steal a line from Tom Lehrer, the corporatistas on the Supreme Court must be feeling like Christian Scientists with appendicitis -- mandated insurance policies is a dream come true for the bastards who currently control health care delivery in the US ( and want to strengthen their control even more) but they cannot let it come about through the agency of Obama, without diminishing the illusion of political difference, which is the enabling context of the whole sham.
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Eugene Coyle wrote: >> How can they mandate an ultrasound and not health insurance? > > speaking of which, an intrusive ultrasound isn't that different from > the kind of virginity tests imposed on some women dissenters in Egypt > by the military. > > (I'm someone with a sharp ear -- or eye -- for irony. Maybe it's > because of my Irish background. I sometimes hear irony when it's not > there, which is a disaster.) > -- > Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to > be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But > in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
