Medicare for All

Atrios : "...it's quite amazing the degree to which people talk about health care while ignoring the fact that a large percentage of our population - mostly, but not just, seniors - don't already pay for their health care with a government run insurance program."

(From earlier today, not that you noticed, Atrios)

Medicare works so well, that a great many wingers don't even think of it as a government plan, teh morans. So:

Medicare for All: No charge for over 55, under 18, and up to, say 400% of poverty level. Everyone else can buy in, or not, through employers.
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Running out of Places To Park

Atrios discusses Car Sharing...

Maybe some other Houstonians can check me on this, but I'm getting the distinct impression that even here, we've run out of places to park. Any place worth getting to, you can't park there any more.

I believe that there would be major benefits in offering substantial tax incentives to taxi companies to increase their sizes in the short term.

Any major public transit intiative would take ten years to enact, but in the meanwhile, encouraging taxi companies to take up the slack will create employment, decrease emissions, and probably enhance public safety.

"Suck. On. This." Day

From Atrios, who rules our world:

"...But the problem with Tom Friedman is that he's very serious and taken very seriously. Unlike Maureen Dowd whose gibberish has lost its influence over the years, Tommy "Suck On This" Friedman is still The Most Serious Foreign Affairs Man In America. When Tom Friedman speaks, people listen, even as his metaphors become as bad as his advice.

So on Suck On This Day we should do our part to convince as many people as we can that Tom Friedman is a blithering idiot and a moral monster. Suck On This Tommy!"

I don't know what it's like to be so morally bankrupt that the concept of killing innocents in an indiscrimiate assault is a source of amusement. I pray to the Almighty that I never do.

Suck. On. This.