Healthcare Policy/Business Analyst State Government I help keep the American Healthcare System functional. Everyone has Very Strong Opinions on this subject. I've been paid to say unpopular things to powerful people in this field, and they thank me.
Part of me wants to know more...but I can imagine and no I do not want to know more. It kinda feels more like a dog-bites-man story than a man-bites-dog story: the only reason you can't make it up is because it's just too common.
Pixie Caseyin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle -> Born to Run -> Darkness on the Edge of Town. The latter two are basically the bookends of the American Dream.
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
This is a nice soothing fantasy, like every explanation in America that doesn't involve race. White Flight to the suburbs created the need for limited core urban bus service, with a transport-gap that can only be crossed by private car. We called that gap the "inner city".
David HoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
It's a bit disturbing to realize that the same criticisms I have of these illiterate bigots sounds so much like Aramaic condemnations of the Saduccees during the late Second-Temple era from a certain radical preacher... www.jta.org/2026/07/29/i...
As Conservative rabbis, we can't perform interfaith weddings. But we can bless the Jewish families they create. - Jewish Telegraphic AgencyThe authors of a new teshuvah approved by Conservative Judaism’s Law Committee explain how they hope to balance tradition, inclusion and the realities of Jewish life today.www.jta.org