Medicare for all

Getting closer to a First World healthcare system

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

Another vampire squid

While Equifax would be dead in an actual free enterprise system, it would be still better to make it a government agency. This might be an even worse example of what happens when you give natural government functions to corporations than private jails.

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

Nobody Ever Cared About The Deficit

The simplest proof of the fact that almost every political reporter was either dumb as rocks, happy to be lied to, or, most likely, was on board with the ideology that government spending money on anything except war is bad, was that they took deficit concerns seriously. Nobody cares about the deficit (and, mostly, they shouldn't!). [...] They don't care. They never cared. Republican presidents run up the deficit and Democratic ones bring it down, and after decades of this the Republicans are still the party of fiscal responsibility according to political journalists. Republicans hate spending any money for nice things and love tax cuts for rich people. That's it. I am a dumb blogger and I know this. You all get paid big salaries by our leading media outlets and you are stupid or liars

Thanx to Atrios

Good idea

Those who fully advocate decriminalizing sex work do so because they believe that granting sex workers the support, labor rights and legal protections of any other type of employment is the best way to help them stay safe.

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

Fun with triangles

This is the dawning of the age of Pythagoras.

Thanx to Metafilter

Useful phrase

“We don’t do that here.”