Get the reference in the title? The Monty Python Spam sketch? It's the kind of thing that aging geeks like myself find highly amusing.
Anyway, I got a comment on Youtube for my video about the health care reform proposals. Youtube marked it as spam. Just out of curiousity, I did a Google search on one of the phrases from the comment, and got more than 6,000 hits.
I guess some intern at a lobbying firm somewhere had a busy summer.
Here's a video I made to explore the controversy surrounding end of life counseling. Is it me, or are sock puppets a sorely underutilized tool for political discourse?
During a speech before the Veterans of Foriegn Wars conference in Phoenix, President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, calling it a "war of necessity."
Oh yeah. Afghanistan. For a while there, so much debate centered on Iraq that Afghanistan felt almost like an afterthought.
In a lot of debates about the proposed federal health care reforms, I hear the word "unconstitutional" getting thrown around. It's usually in a context of: The U.S. Constitution doesn't say that the government can provide health coverage, therefore any attempt to do that would be unconstitutional.
I don't want to get into the debate over health care reform right now, so much as address the whole concept of "unconstitutional."
Journalistic smartasses like my colleagues and me have been having a lot of fun with a recent editorial in the Investors Business Daily to the effect that Obama's health care plan would create a big system of state-run eugenics.
It uses the United Kingdom's health care system as a cautionary example, statiing:
"People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."
The joke, of course, is that Hawking is a lifelong resident of the U.K.
When discussing this with colleagues, I speculated that the editorial writer might react to that news by saying "What? But he doesn't have an accent!"
Man, I crack myself up!
