Thoughts and prayers!

Robert Reich has been banging that drum since the 90s

Thank you!

I'd gladly transfer a large portion of what my employer and I pay for private health insurance to fund a public option

Face it: we'll never have universal health care in the US as long as Americans continue to believe taxation is theft and privatizing government services for profit is in their best interest.

You mean those fake news alternative fact fires started by ANTIFA crisis actors who forgot to rake the forest?

... or a nation state

... and theirs

Send me a high protein smoothie when I'm chained to my desk at lunch, and I'm in

Not mutually exclusive

Back atcha!

D'nile ain't just a river in Egypt

I mistakenly read _omnibus_ and chuckled

Those nations take a collective responsibility for building a healthy society. Americans perpetuate a myth that if a child can't claw themselves out of the pit of poverty without assistance, they don't deserve to do better in life.

We live in a Lake Michigan microclimate with lake effect clouds and snow. I've only been to Germany once but was shocked to find fall skies as grey and gloomy as home.