my blog is jealous of facebook
let's face it. with more than a month between this post and my last, blogging isn't my thing these days. not that i had a huge following, but i had a few people that read it pretty regularly. now i know those people on facebook and my blog... well, it's collecting dust. i am just posting now because i have down-time at work (yes, i'm blogging at work) and i thought instead of doing all of my xmas shopping in one day, i'd do some things i can't seem to bother with at home.
let me clarify: i am blogging at work because i have some serious down-time. as in "read a book, surf the internet, chill out" down time. as in "i can't even look like i'm seriously busy because i haven't been here long enough to have 1) a computer to organize, 2) a desk to clean, 3) people to chat with. we're between projects right now, in a holding pattern, and my bosses know that i (and the other temps) don't have anything to do. so stop freaking out.
anyway, there are many things i wanted to blog about over the past weeks, but i have instead truncated those thoughts and posted them to facebook. they aren't nearly as eloquent on FB as i could be here, but blogging takes much more time. not that i don't have time... i go home at the end of the day and i knit. or cook. or watch a movie. but really, nothing that interesting has been going in my life that requires a serious blog entry.
ok, here's something: i am commuting for the first time in my life. to pass the time, i have started listening to NPR again. and i find myself getting angry and yelling at the little people in the radio over the dumbest things. our government is so f*cking stupid. here is why the US will never be organized or effective:
1) we're too fucking big. we're breeding ourselves right out of a voice.
2) there are too many people who have too many f*cking opinions. and they think they matter.
i've been listening to that health care reform fiasco and i want to slap all of the republicans and the anti-abortion people right across the face. with a cat-o-nine-tails. ok, catholic church. you don't have a say in what our government does. in a perfect world, separation of church and state would actually happen. i can't believe they can take the word "God" out of our Pledge of Allegiance, but we can't keep the catholic diocese from ruining our health care plan. really, people? it's better to let the poor die of preventable health problems than to let the government (who doesn't give you one red cent, by the way, church) give a few people some abortions. and you know what? those people who would take the Public Option are the ones who need kids the LEAST.
so, here is my health care reform idea: make insurance companies and hospitals non-profit. no more public trading. no more stock holders. no more worrying about whether that brain surgery for mr. smith will put BCBS into the red. this is people's lives were dealing with here. not who gets the most dividends. i'm tired of living in a country where money rules everything, even whether or not someone gets the medical treatment they need.
oh, and pharmaceutical companies would be thrown in there for good measure. no more doctors in your pockets. no more $120 allegra-d. you make meds because they help people. that's it. no more advertising. if you need a drug, someone's doctor will recommend it because it will help what the person has, not because there's a quota.
i know i won't live to see the day when we all realize that capitalism is ruining our country. the people who do realize it now are either too poor or too high to do anything about it.
anyway, that's my blog for the month. feel free to comment on how i'm a filthy liberal hippy
who is too busy knitting my hemp bong holder to see how the real world works. i welcome those opinions.
let me clarify: i am blogging at work because i have some serious down-time. as in "read a book, surf the internet, chill out" down time. as in "i can't even look like i'm seriously busy because i haven't been here long enough to have 1) a computer to organize, 2) a desk to clean, 3) people to chat with. we're between projects right now, in a holding pattern, and my bosses know that i (and the other temps) don't have anything to do. so stop freaking out.
anyway, there are many things i wanted to blog about over the past weeks, but i have instead truncated those thoughts and posted them to facebook. they aren't nearly as eloquent on FB as i could be here, but blogging takes much more time. not that i don't have time... i go home at the end of the day and i knit. or cook. or watch a movie. but really, nothing that interesting has been going in my life that requires a serious blog entry.
ok, here's something: i am commuting for the first time in my life. to pass the time, i have started listening to NPR again. and i find myself getting angry and yelling at the little people in the radio over the dumbest things. our government is so f*cking stupid. here is why the US will never be organized or effective:
1) we're too fucking big. we're breeding ourselves right out of a voice.
2) there are too many people who have too many f*cking opinions. and they think they matter.
i've been listening to that health care reform fiasco and i want to slap all of the republicans and the anti-abortion people right across the face. with a cat-o-nine-tails. ok, catholic church. you don't have a say in what our government does. in a perfect world, separation of church and state would actually happen. i can't believe they can take the word "God" out of our Pledge of Allegiance, but we can't keep the catholic diocese from ruining our health care plan. really, people? it's better to let the poor die of preventable health problems than to let the government (who doesn't give you one red cent, by the way, church) give a few people some abortions. and you know what? those people who would take the Public Option are the ones who need kids the LEAST.
so, here is my health care reform idea: make insurance companies and hospitals non-profit. no more public trading. no more stock holders. no more worrying about whether that brain surgery for mr. smith will put BCBS into the red. this is people's lives were dealing with here. not who gets the most dividends. i'm tired of living in a country where money rules everything, even whether or not someone gets the medical treatment they need.
oh, and pharmaceutical companies would be thrown in there for good measure. no more doctors in your pockets. no more $120 allegra-d. you make meds because they help people. that's it. no more advertising. if you need a drug, someone's doctor will recommend it because it will help what the person has, not because there's a quota.
i know i won't live to see the day when we all realize that capitalism is ruining our country. the people who do realize it now are either too poor or too high to do anything about it.
anyway, that's my blog for the month. feel free to comment on how i'm a filthy liberal hippy
who is too busy knitting my hemp bong holder to see how the real world works. i welcome those opinions.
posted by mikraas at 2:12 PM
2 Comments:
I've been slacking on my blog as well lol but I did just read your post and frankly loved it!
PS
I can totally relate to the blog vs facebook.
I've been reading your blog posts this morning and I must say they are riveting. I agree with a lot you say here and I've been thinking this way myself lately. Pharma companies are massively profitable, but at whose expense? Often it's the people who can least afford it--and sick people at that. And why are these meds so expensive? A big part of it is the BILLIONS of dollars spent to run those stupid ads over and over and over again. I watch the news every night, and I must literally have seen the Lunesta ad a thousand times by now, as well as Cialis and twenty other drugs I can't think of at the moment. Whatever happened to that most heartbreaking of illnesses, Restless Leg Syndrome? A couple of years ago there were so many commercials about it that you could be excused for thinking it was the new Polio.
Keep on posting!
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