Occam's Razor

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  • Chinese balloon threat nonsense

    What the hell is wrong with Republicans? It’s been about a week since a Chinese balloon was detected drifting around 60,000 feet above sea level over Montana. In a sense though, the timing was right. Republicans are always looking for something new and scary to blame Democrats for. The Chinese balloon hit all the marks, […]

    Mark

    February 6, 2023
    Politics 2023
    Balloons, China, Republicans, Spy sattelites
  • Medicare is pretty awesome

    In my last post, I noted that a majority of Americans favor a single-payer health care plan over the current system. Some people though effectively do have socialized medicine already here in the United States: much of the U.S. military, veterans, the poor that can get on Medicaid and 65+ Americans like me, i.e. seniors. […]

    Mark

    January 29, 2023
    Politics 2023
    Health Insurance, Massachusetts General Hospital, Medicare, Medicare for all
  • The coming shit show

    Rabid orthodoxy can make you clueless. In a normal political party, where in the 2022 elections you barely squeak by with a House majority, lose a Senate seat, and Democrats take total control of two state legislatures (Michigan and Pennsylvania) and add governorships (Maryland, Massachusetts and Arizona) to your party’s one governorship pickup (Nevada) while […]

    Mark

    January 23, 2023
    Politics 2023
    Debt Ceiling, Joe Biden, Republicans, Trillion dollar coin
  • I’m glad to be “woke”

    It’s not just House Republicans, but Republican politicians everywhere that are scared of being “woke”. Admittedly, it’s hard to say what “woke” actually means to Republicans, but allowing kids to be “woke” greatly upsets them. It upsets them to the point where they are passing legislation and ordinances to not allow “woke” teaching because, well, […]

    Mark

    January 17, 2023
    Politics 2023
    Bigotry, Civil War, LGBTQ, Racism, Republicans, Ron DeSantis, Transgenders, Wokeness
  • Mr. Marcus of Home Depot doesn’t understand capitalism

    It’s hard to avoid stories about Prince Harry and his takedown of the royal family. His book Spare, which is released this week, apparently pulls no punches and disses much of the royal family including his brother William who he alleges bullied him as a kid. Despite watching all seasons of the Netflix series The […]

    Mark

    January 10, 2023
    Politics 2023
    Bernie Marcus, Capitalism, Home Depot, Productivity, Welfare State
  • Republicans are trapped in their own cage

    I must be feeling better if I can blog about politics again. Republicans “won” control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November with 222 seats to 213 for Democrats, a nine seat gain. It was an unusually anemic midterm performance for the party out of power, particularly since a round of redistricting was completed […]

    Mark

    January 4, 2023
    Politics 2023
    Dobbs v. Jackson, Election 2022, Kevin McCarthy, Republicans
  • Getting your brain zapped and a new hope

    This is my last post of 2022. Sorry for the self indulgence, but it’s not everyday that you discover you have a likely fatal disease and who knows? This information may be of use to others. I’ve let the thought that I will survive my brain cancer enter my mind. I am now on chemotherapy […]

    Mark

    December 30, 2022
    Life 2022
    cancer, chemotherapy, radiation, Zofran
  • Feeling well while dying

    Supposedly, I am dying. But right now I feel more alive than I have in years. Six hours of surgery on November 29 removed a brain tumor. My minor balancing issue that sent me to a hospital and into surgery is gone. I’ve gotten physical therapy I’m not sure I needed but certainly didn’t hurt. […]

    Mark

    December 24, 2022
    Life 2022
    Death, Dying
  • Cane and able

    So it turns out that permanent disability is the least of my problems. Death is my real problem. If you read me regularly, you’ll know that I had a brain tumor removed on November 29. The good: the surgeon removed the whole thing. The bad: it’s cancerous, and not the kind of cancer likely to […]

    Mark

    December 18, 2022
    Life 2022
    brain tumors, cancer, Death, Dying
  • Elon Musk is a horrible person

    So I’m largely off Twitter. You may not have even known that I was on Twitter but it is (or perhaps was a thing) so for many years when I made a post I also posted a link to it to Twitter. Now of course the world’s richest human Elon Musk has purchased it, fired […]

    Mark

    December 11, 2022
    Sociology
    Billionaires, Elon Musk, Twitter
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