Friday, September 24, 2004
Bedside Manner
George Bush reminds me of a story they told us in medical school.
A doctor with great bedside manner and terrible judgement rushed to the bedside of the patient, where all the family was in attendance.
He decided the patient needed intravenous potassium. Rather than dripping it in slowly, he pushed it in all at once, causing the patient's immediate death.
Bedside manner intact, he turned to the family and said, "If only I'd gotten here a moment sooner."
A doctor with great bedside manner and terrible judgement rushed to the bedside of the patient, where all the family was in attendance.
He decided the patient needed intravenous potassium. Rather than dripping it in slowly, he pushed it in all at once, causing the patient's immediate death.
Bedside manner intact, he turned to the family and said, "If only I'd gotten here a moment sooner."
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Osama vs George - What's The Score?
For all of George's "I'm going to kick ass and take names" bluster, he has failed to knock Osama out. It is not clear who is ahead on points in this bout.
Osama has obliged us to spend monstrous amounts of money on security, and has enticed us into spending even greater sums on military adventures. This has changed us from a country deciding how to invest a surplus into a country going massively into debt. We will have to balance the books someday, and that will require forgoing any number of worthy uses of our resources.
Osama has changed the U.S. from a country with a Bill of Rights into a country with secret police, secret courts, secret warrants, secret searches, secret evidence which cannot be confronted, and detention without charges.
Insert poignant ending statement here.
Osama has obliged us to spend monstrous amounts of money on security, and has enticed us into spending even greater sums on military adventures. This has changed us from a country deciding how to invest a surplus into a country going massively into debt. We will have to balance the books someday, and that will require forgoing any number of worthy uses of our resources.
Osama has changed the U.S. from a country with a Bill of Rights into a country with secret police, secret courts, secret warrants, secret searches, secret evidence which cannot be confronted, and detention without charges.
Insert poignant ending statement here.
