Well, don't members of Congress have some of the best health care in this country, setting aside the President and the Vice President?

Why would he give two fucks about the cost of healthcare? Don't they get lifetime health insurance (the good insurance to boot) after they serve like 2 terms?

Makes me want to run for office myself.

What gets me is that it's all done in punitive ways.

If they had done everything right then the treatment would be covered, only people who did something wrong are the ones caught in these bad situations so they get what they deserve. I hate hate hate this undercurrent of punishment in current politics.

I actually don't think women's issues have gone backward (but it fucking sure feels like it), but I do think that there is a great deal of publicity around gains that we thought we'd made but hadn't.

That's the depressing part.

I hate hate hate this undercurrent of punishment in current politics.

Yeah, I think someone should be punished for that.

It's remarkably Darwinian of them, this "successful people get good things" thing. And wouldn't they all pop their tops if this was pointed out to them.

I really just want to go on Facebook and make inflammatory statements about how, for example, if you believe that a woman can't get pregnant from "real rape", you are a HORRIBLE PERSON.

In non-political news, I swam, and then walked home in, the most thunderless thunderstorm ever. There was even hail. And it is still going. It's dark out there.

Oh wait, climate change. Sorry!

It's remarkably Darwinian of them, this "successful people get good things" thing.

It's far worse than Darwinian (since the theory of natural selection is way more nuanced than that), it's actually medieval. The medieval Church believed that even giving a woman medical care during childbirth was an arrogation of God's will.

Or am I thinking of Calvinism? My theology is suspect.

I'm reminded of that wonderful quote from Babylon 5: WTTE of "I have to believe life is unfair, because think how horrible it would be to believe you deserved everything that happened to you."

I am terrified that the power will go out. The Derecho totally left me spooked! (and I would totally lose my shit if power went out for any amount of time tonight. I have hours left of work to do. Bob is out of town. When I am finished my work I want to watch some of my stories I've been saving for Bob being out of town!)

I'm looking forward to it getting out that Akin used to be a union rep. Let's just say that his bio no longer mentions when he used to be a teacher in the Mehlville school district, and served as a representative for the teacher's union. I'd love to see his handlers try to spin that one for the Tea Party crowd.