Now that's the kind of political ad I like to see.
So here's a question for subsequent posters ....
who do you identify with best - the man with the cake, the guy xeroxing his butt, or the barrista giving the customer more foam?

I'd betcha $5 Thersites would identify with the xerox dude!

You lose. I'm the guy you can't see, the one with the wire cutters.

Hey, how's that beer comin'? Fixin them airplains is hot work, y'know.

Beer is coming - I planted the hops last weekend. Shouldn't be long now!

Definitely the guy with the cake.

Since no one cared about this post, the comments on the McMegan post should go here.

The coffee server (I refuse to use the term barrista, which is just Euroslang for somebody working a coffee bar). I think the customer is absolutely detestable. Good casting.

That having been said, I went to the web site for Wyden's plan as Kevin suggested, and found it irritatingly vague about the cost. I think it's nice that it would only cost me seven bucks a month more, or 328 dollars a year more, but I wanted to shout at the screen, MORE THAN WHAT?!!!

Being the noble fellow I am, I refrained from such impropriety, but I would like to know what the numbers are and how the system is supposed to work. For example, I can imagine a system in which employers are charged a straight ten percent of gross wages for all employees (best case scenario) and everybody gets to count the number of hours worked as credit towards his medical insurance bill. This would cover part time workers and full timers alike, but with full timers getting more credit and part timers (for the first time in their lives) being able to buy into the total insurance pool instead of having to go hat in hand to Blue Cross for the privilege of filling out intrusive medical history forms.

Alas, it is not explained in the first several screens; moreover, the commenters were equally irritating in their criticisms, but for all I know they could be right. Perhaps somebody could sketch out the details for us.

Other than that, the idea of a national plan seems outstanding; the fact that it would cut insurance company profits by a factor of five would lead to a certain amount of political friction in getting the program passed.

"Since no one cared about this post, the comments on the McMegan post should go here."

Gladly. Kevin, disabling the comments on the Megan McArdle post was W-E-A-K, weak. If you don't have the stones to defend your opinion, or even to see your opinion publicly questioned by your readers, perhaps it's a sign that it's an opinion you'd be better off refraining from posting in the first place.

That said, are there any other war-supporting bloggers you'd like to single out for praise today, Kevin? I mean, besides yourself?

Patrick Meighan
Culver City, CA

McMegan comment ahoy! The voice of the people will not be silenced!

Kevin, I'm afraid Roy Edroso wins this argument on points.

Oh yeah, substantive:

I'm annoyed that a typically female narrative style, which touches on personal experience, is derided as fundamentally unserious...

Perhaps it's because she makes the mistake of substituting anecdotes for useful information. Many female bloggers do not do this because "miracle-of-miracles" they understand logical fallacies.

We could cut health costs by 50% by getting the decadent American oinkers out for a little exercise and good diet. You would think Bush might offer some leadership in this area, but he seems to be such a lazy president. I recall some time ago someone counted 44 vacations Bush took--might have been in his first month. Reagan came into office with an agenda of six items, and Bush seems to have whittled his agenda down to one item.

Not really a new idea--Thomas Edison was advocating preventive medicine back when.

Then we could cut costs another 25% by prosecuting corrupt businessmen and letting the 30 million illegal aliens self deport. Statistically Hispanics are quite prone to expensive, chronic ailments like diabetes when they change diet from tacos to Twinkies w/half gallon SuperGulp. Anchor babies can be expensive, too. I know a Mexican girl who worked a whole two weeks before achieving the American Dream by having a palsied anchor baby and successfully suing for $25 million. This on top of pre-lawsuit years of free obstetrics, pre-natal, post-natal, medical, special education, special electric wheelchairs, and so forth on Catholic Charities and Stroger County Hospital. Now this illegal alien girl is building a luxury million dollar home in the suburbs. They don't call them jackpot babies for nothing! LOL.

Kevin was the same guy who assured us that
a) Bush wouldn't lie about the WMD, 'cause
b) Congress and the press are hyper-vigilant, and
c) If there were no WMD, Bush would not only
lose re-election, he would be impeached.

Given this, I'd suspect a tendency to be a bit
credulous, or perhaps empathetic, when it comes
to the wingers. Him and Matt both.

Sure, Megan is no Ann Coulter. However, there
is also a nice market for promoting right-wing
narrative in a breezy, superficial, uninformed
but entertaining manner. Given that it has a
cotton-candy "stimulating" quality, I can understand why Kevin's not averse to it. Given
that it tends to drown out everything else,
liberal bloggers would be idiots not to be
hatin' on it.

So ease up on easin' up.

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