Hasn’t it been a while since some fringe group predicted a date for the end of the world? Wait, no, it probably hasn’t, but it’s been a while since they got any press. Today is the beginning of open enrollment for health care, whether or not you use the marketplace. There will be one more before a new ass sits in the oval office on Pennsylvania Avenue. I don’t know about the end of the world, but I’m guessing the end of Obamacare is not too far away.
I have all sorts of appointments coming up. I’m not going to stress enrollment, but I will soon. I also would like to predict that healthcare will be a major talking point for … the person whose ass next sits behind that desk. I’m just saying those are promises that should be made on the campaign trail and it’s a personal enough issue to the American people where the one with the best talking points on healthcare has a leg up. Foreign Policy too, but, shit, I have personally heard more people bitching about health care than the endless wars and rumors of wars and science fiction sounding privatization of war.
I don’t really have a political entry in me. If I did there’d be fireworks and inflammatory stuff and the calling out of names. I have greater concerns than the perpetual brink of collapse the world has been teetering on since … we started keeping records some four thousand years ago. I think that’s not an admission I would have made X number of years ago.
I learned my lesson about saving the world more than X number of years ago, I changed tactics. I’d say something like you can only save one person at a time because it’s short and easy to remember and if I thought people would do what I say that’s what I say. If I were trying to be honest I’d throw the word try in there. The important thing is to define the word save. It gets grim and not very heroic to define it in a manageable way. For instance, you can run into a burning building and bring out a live child and that’s definitely saving someone. That’s good. It’s also good that there aren’t enough burning buildings with babies in them for that to be a viable way for all of us to try saving people.
It’s not really that the world is more complicated, it’s that some things move slow and heavy and are not as direct as burning babies and buildings. Like war, education, healthcare, human “kindness”.
One of the things I like about youtube is that the poster often posts that it’s a cover. A lot of lyric sites don’t. Until Norah Jones covered it the most famous version, I think, was Joe Cocker. Randy Newman wrote the song. He wrote a lot of beautiful and profound songs, his versions didn’t get the radio play they deserved. Short people, I think, did. Silly and stupid song.
Sorry was interrupted and lost thread. Maybe that’s for the best. It doesn’t look like I’m in a very good mood.
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