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From The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Link: https://youtu.be/b2WNjd5oFGQ by … Continue reading
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Naughty movie actor and former Trump acquaintance Storm Daniels appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live October 2. Kimmel's previous guest, actor Sarah Paulson, asked to stick around for the Stormy segment and appears to have had a good time. Link: https://youtu.be/5Ji8i7Wy4mo … Continue reading
There was so much written, said, and broadcast about John McCain in the week after his death August 25 that I decided to delay publishing this until today. It's a short interview with his longtime aid and close friend Mark … Continue reading
The middle decades of the 20th century were boom times for Americans. Partly this is because much of the rest of the industrialized world had been devastated by World War II, but actually recovering from that devastation meant that economic … Continue reading
Jon Stewart interrupts The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to offer to negotiate with Donald Trump to end mistreatment of children at the border. This is actually from June 28 so it's a bit out of date, though less so … Continue reading
I'm not a full-on Bernie Sanders partisan, but I like him well enough and appreciate his willingness to speak frankly. I do wish he wouldn't insist on calling himself a "democratic socialist" since he's not a socialist in the normal … Continue reading
Back before the Affordable Care Act took effect, a lot of the health insurance horror stories I heard had to do with short-term health insurance policies. They were typically purchased by people who thought they were getting a really good … Continue reading
As noted by, for example, a report last year from ProPublica and National Public Radio, the United States has by far the highest death rate in the developed world for women around the time of giving birth. It's not even … Continue reading
In this video published August 31, pediatrician and medical school professor Dr Aaron Carroll points out that according to independent estimates, the Medicare for All program proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders would reduce total U.S. healthcare spending, in part because … Continue reading
In case you somehow haven't already seen this: Link: https://youtu.be/8EsUNOIYyKg by … Continue reading