From the article:And then I saw this article: Curing Patients Is Bad For Business.
"But we have reached the limits of common sense and common decency."
Nah. Not even close. I'm not sure that there is a limit to craven indifference.
From the article:And then I saw this article: Curing Patients Is Bad For Business.
From the article:
"But we have reached the limits of common sense and common decency."
Nah. Not even close. I'm not sure that there is a limit to craven indifference.
You know you're getting old when, while only half way up a flight of stairs, someone you don't know who is younger than you is at the top holding a door open for you.
Zero surprise here; I've known this for decades. The real problem is that "medicine" and "health care" are, and for the most part always have been, run like any other business. If the people involved were doing it for truly altruistic reasons it would all be non-profit, or at least little profit, and everyone would get the proper care they deserve. But that'll never happen because there's far too much money to be made by the wrong people by keeping things as they are.And then I saw this article: Curing Patients Is Bad For Business.
I've mentioned this somewhere here before, but my driving record has been so clean for the last 20+ years that the California Department of Motor Vehicles just kept mailing me my new licenses with updated expiration dates. As such, I hadn't had a new license photo taken in all that time. Apparently someone finally noticed, so last year I had to go have a new photo taken. Now when I look at my license, I don't recognize the old man staring back at me.I'm not sure how this works, but the guy in the mirror doesn't strike me as appearing remotely nearly as old as the same guy who appears in pictures snapped by my wife and others with their ever ready cell phone cameras.
Redfokker. tonyb, scotty and anyone else silly enough to still hanker after an MGB GT, and in this case the V8 version. The V8 in the MGB is in fact a Buick designed engine and as many an owner here in the UK knows, anything Buick will just bolt onto it without fettling or adjusting. So if you really do still crave that early teenage, heart's desire and you live in Buick country, here's what you can have and easily get spares for:Argh! This post made my heart race. I've wanted an MGB or Midget my entire life and never got one.
The GT fastback body was designed by the Italian company Pininfarina, skillfully incorporating all the best features of The Sportster, open top MGB body. If it goes into the GT it goes into the open top MGB,I assume if it goes into the GT, it'll go into a droptop B, as well, or was the GT's cradle a separate entity for a V8?
I assume if it goes into the GT, it'll go into a droptop B, as well, or was the GT's cradle a separate entity for a V8?
When you can have the Ghia body on a Ghia chassis, why would you want to spend an arm and a leg converting it?What just flashed through my mind was putting a B body and interior on a VW chassis. The B and Karmann Ghia strike me as being fairly close, dimensionally. But I'd have to measure, of course.
Then again, they could be completely incompatible.
What just flashed through my mind was putting a B body and interior on a VW chassis. The B and Karmann Ghia strike me as being fairly close, dimensionally. But I'd have to measure, of course.
Then again, they could be completely incompatible.
Best to keep that in mind whenever we are tempted to assume a pose of some natural moral superiority.
Germans in the 1930s and '40s were no more disposed by nature to genocide than were the people of America. And an ISIS executioner with the notches of a dozen beheadings on his knife handle wasn't born any more bloodthirsty than you or I.
We're all capable of evil. We are all but willfully blind to the moral outrages done in our name this very day. We may not be herding millions into chambers filled with poison gas, or lopping off heads for theatrical effect, but I have no doubt whatsoever that we could, provided we normalize less extreme homocidal behaviors along the way.
This jailhouse interview with serial killer Richard Ramirez seems to touch on this point.
Richard Speck was born in a small farm town in the same county where I was raised. My high school history teacher had him as a student. He always said the teachers agreed he was going to do something bad, they just didn't know what or when. Apparently he radiated a bad vibe even as a child.
Speck's crime bothered him until he died even though it was years after he had been a student.