1. Good points made by Simon Grey in a piece about parental overprotectiveness.
2. Robert Pattinson reportedly wrote love songs for Kristen Stewart before she was found to be cheating on him. I was wrong about Pattinson; I pushed back against the idea that he is betamax. I thought maybe he was in an open and adult Hollywood relationship with Stewart and that he was likely unfazed by her cheating on him. But if all you knew about a guy was that he wrote love songs for his girlfriend, you’d make a reasonable guess that she would some day cheat on him or leave him outright. And since this couple is for all intents and purposes contractually obligated to be an item, his betaness and her waywardness would not have an ideal end – in a mutual break-up. Instead, cheating did them in. In other news: I hate myself for writing on this.
3. Op-ed on doctor shortages in an ObamaCare world.
4. We knew this already. But now someone at The Atlantic is pointing out that media outlets like to rehash stories about the increase in strip club and prostitution patronage in and around political conventions. The media does this because it is a sensationalist story, and the template has already been laid. Perfect, easy story.
5. Slate’s Hanna Rosin on an American female gymnast who cried after falling out of medal contention. Rosin doesn’t want crying to be associated with young, little girls (the gymnast is 17). So she’ll just have to wish away the fact that it is most often the case Olympians who cry upon losing tend to fit this particular profile.
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My friends brought their one year old girl over to my house recently. She took an interest in my cat, who has not been declawed and has no experience with small children. Needless to say, my cat reacted by hissing and scratching, and my friends kid reacted by crying.
Thankfully there was only superficial injuries to the child, and I’m happy to report my friends attitude was “hey, she has to learn not to mess with animals somehow”.
I’ve noticed a lot of people in my generation have this attitude towards parenting, with the website http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/ being a good example.
I think this is a reaction to the over-protective parenting style of the baby boomers, just like the lack of divorce among my generation of yuppies is a reaction to the large number of latchkey kids in the 80s and 90s.
I once wrote a love poem to a girl. But that was in tenth grade. And I never gave it to her because my friends made fun of me for being a pussy. Good times.
Speaking of did Doug1 ever check out the original Twilight movie on my recommendation? Did Chuck? It is a masterpiece of pop culture and a gem of the Nordic aesthetic. Everlasting pine forests, Debussy juxtaposed with alt-rock, understated passion. Chuck, you’d dig it man, even if you are a Texas boy.
Thankfully there was only superficial injuries to the child, and I’m happy to report my friends attitude was “hey, she has to learn not to mess with animals somehow”.
Try going to a dog park with some of these hyperactive pet owners now. If two dogs get into a little bit of a snarling match they’re ready to call the cops since it’s a “dog fight” – heaven forbid that their precioius little 80-pound lab gets lightly nipped and a tiny litte bit of blood is drawn.
Are you opposed to “importing” doctors? It would function in the same way we have driven down the costs of most other occupations. This is the case for most remaining high-income occupations remaining in this country, they are artificially shielded from a true free-market. There’s nothing our finance/law/medical geniuses can do that a bunch of east-asians can’t for a fraction of the price.
Are you opposed to “importing” doctors?
I am opposed to importing anyome whose potential daughters cannot match the baseline beauty of white American women, sans obesity.
Needless to say, NAMs would not factor heavily into the pool of high-IQ immigrants I am speaking about. And you are completely ignoring the point. And you could never hope to base policy on your particular opposition in this lifetime.
Ignore the fact that I mentioned east-asians if that bothers you, pick another HBD-friendly population.
Dr. G:
You don’t understand for what reason I posted a link to that article. I don’t think that we need to increase the demand for health services by increasing health care coverage under the health care mandate. I’m not complaining about a shortage of doctors; I’m pointing out that Obamacare will suffer from a limited supply of doctors. Obamacare is fatally flawed because it conflates health insurance with health care. Those two things are not the same.
And if Obama and liberals want to draw foreign doctors into this country then they should have to answer the question of why they’re basically looting those countries of precious medical personnel. They do surely need it more than us.
Ignore the fact that I mentioned east-asians if that bothers you
East Asians don’t “bother” me. In fact, i am something of a Korean-supremacist.
The thrust of the article you linked to is clearly about doctor shortages, I really don’t understand your response. Are you decrying the fact that medicare doesn’t fully reimburse doctors what they would usually earn? Your Health Care v. Health Insurance dichotomy is mentioned nowhere in that NYT piece.
Your second graf is just boilerplate snark.
It mentions Obamacare in the first paragraph and throughout the piece. It’s clearly criticizing the fact that Obamacare was sold as a cure-all, but that it fails to account for many other key points. Besides that, libertarians and conservatives have spent a lot of time explaining that there is a difference between health care and health insurance. I didn’t say that the distinction was mentioned in the piece, but that’s essentially what they’re talking about when they write:
As for my second graf, snark? It’s a straight-forward argument. If you want to import doctors then what about the other countries who will be losing those resources? You’re a good liberal; you don’t care about them?
There’s so much insight missing from that NYT piece on the Inland Empire doctor shortage that it’s hard to discuss.
E.g. a contribution to the shortage is that “The population of Riverside County swelled 42% in the 2000s, gaining more than 644,000 people.”
Dontcha just hate it when “swelling” happens, and presents our society with intractable problems. Likewise when the swellers have low human and financial capital, and generally poor health. Funny how these things pop up, out of nowhere! It’s a puzzler!
A quick primer on payer mix for Chuck’s readers to understand Medicaid expansion by ObamaCare:
Medicaid: No doctors nor hospitals want these patients because the reimbursements are trivial and delayed. The beneficiaries are low IQ, demanding, noncompliant, and actively destroy their own health. Hospitals are mandated to see them in emergency departments. The benefits are free, unlimited, and the patients never see a bill. An exception in some states is obstetric care, which is reimbursed high enough to entice obstetricians to accept pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries.
Medicare: The benefits are free and unlimited to the beneficiaries. The reimbursement levels are (barely) acceptable to doctors and hospitals, are paid out timely at HMS preset levels. Since families pay nothing, dying and suffering are prolonged.
Insured: these are the premium patients. Insurance companies are difficult to deal with, require pre-authorization , but reimburse at the highest rates.
So, with a shortage of doctors, which of the above beneficiaries will nonemergent care?
As Chuck described, handing someone a “medical card” does not translate to medical care. It does however, translate to relief from bankruptcy and boosts personal financial security.
Most Medicaid beneficiaries have no interest in treating their blood pressure nor diabetes. They just want to show up at their own convenience and demand resale value narcotics for their back pain.
There is actually one otehr time that I wrote a love letter. Back when I was going to school, I never learned a thing. All I did was daydream, waiting for the bell to ring. I had a certain teacher, I always tried to impress her. When she stood up in the classroom, I would mentally undress her. Then one day I decided that I would write a little letter.
THIS is how it played out.
“You’re a good liberal; you don’t care about them?”
More snark. And, no, never pretended too, either. But you pretend to care a great deal about the free market. So the answer is surely outsourcing, same as what happened to our blue-collar workers. Outsource our highest-income professions to equally qualified foreigners at a fraction of the cost (financiers, doctors, lawyers, etc.) Their high wages persist because they have erected artificial barriers to a free market (mainly through political influence) while everyone else has had to re-adjust their salaries to compete in a global marketplace.