nooooooooo

While I'm working, I leave the television on something innocuous like Law & Order or random shows from Bravo. It relieves the quiet of 1am. Well not so much when they show a World Wildlife foundation commercial talking about how all the polar bears will die in my generation and how they are all starving to death. Then ten minutes later it was the ASPCA commercial with Sarah McLaughlin. Thank you TV for making me feel miserable in the middle of the night! The animal suffering really gets to me.

nothing is right about this

http://rm.livejournal.com/1472633.html

I cannot believe that I sat on the couch last night watching the men vying to be president seriously (such as it is) debate whether health care is a right or a privilege. Leaving aside matters of capitalism and socialism, our broke ass country and our ideological fears -- doesn't everyone have a right to live? to be helped if they can be helped? Isn't it simple? At least philosophically?

The situation makes me heartsick. I believe making the medical industry a for profit one is probably one the greatest collective moral failings in the history of humanity.

One of the folks I met during my very first trip to NYC is in the hospital right now because he had a stroke. He's only 44, and a freelancer with no health insurance. What the hell happens now? I know an ICU stay isn't cheap. That the financial cost of his care even had to be a factor in deciding whether to go to the ER is horrifying.

Fuck, it is 10am and I'm crying again.

in need of happy

Please to be voting for my lolkitty, so he can be Cheezburger Famous.


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