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Health coverage in 6 places named Denver

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 25, 2015Leave a comment

   Ninety-four percent of the residents of Denver, Colo., have health coverage. By contrast, if state averages apply, only 76 percent of those in Denver City, Texas, do.    Do you live in Denver, Fla., east of Gainesville? Based on the state average, you have a one-in-five chance of having no health coverage. Good luck…

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Our Congress has become Fraternity Row

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 17, 2015Leave a comment

    On “The Nightly Show,” Comedy Central’s Larry Wilmore nailed it.     After the University of Oklahoma kicked its SAE fraternity off campus for a racist display that even for rich white boys was way past the pale, Wilmore quipped:    "Don't worry; you won't be seeing any more of those frat boys — until…

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‘Directly shaped . . . by racial bias’

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 10, 2015Leave a comment

   As the Oscars telecast moved on with impassioned acceptance speeches, one pondered the hypersonic rate at which Republican viewers were finding other fare.   Yes, we’re talking five times the speed of sound.   How many Republicans left when “Imitation Game” screenwriter Dustin Black spoke for gay rights? Or when Patricia Arquette for equal…

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The insanity of the death penalty

UncategorizedBy John YoungMarch 3, 2015Leave a comment

  The biggest jury pool in history has been summoned in the case of the man who admits he shot dead 12 people and wounded 70 in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater.   Whenever it is that 12 untainted jurors can be seated — among the 9,000 summoned — to try James Holmes, they should do…

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Islamophobes chasing their tails

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 24, 2015Leave a comment

  OK, let’s hear the president explain it, again.   “Some call this evil Islamic radicalism. Others, militant jihadism. Still, others Islamo-fascism. Whatever it’s called, this ideology is very different from the religion of Islam.”   Now, discuss.   We know what you’ll say, Rep. Louie Gohmert. You’ll say these are the words of a toady…

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Dwarfed by one Himalaya of a lie

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 17, 2015Leave a comment

  As any track athlete knows, after training at high altitude, distance running at lower levels barely shocks the system.   This explains, in part, why I’ve not read up much on the lie attributed to NBC’s Brian Williams. It was a behemoth, apparently. I just can’t bring myself to know any more about it.  …

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Egads — an equal-opportunity Internet?

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 10, 20151 Comment

  Comcast did not invent the Internet. Neither did AT&T. They just hitched rides on it.   All to the betterment of mankind – I might add, unless mankind is crossing an intersection and an oncoming, texting 19-year-old driver is oblivious to the color red.   Therefore, consider this commentary not a slam on big telecom…

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You will not refuse the Tar Sands Mafia

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 3, 20151 Comment

  The economy is on the rebound. Oil prices are down, down, down. So, what’s with that Putin face, Punky?   It’s bad. It’s bad. So say analysts who point to all that oil-patch activity now screeching to a halt. It’s a calamity. Oh, the humanity.   Bad? Tell that to the average motorist. Gasoline prices…

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You can’t vaccinate against this

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 27, 2015Leave a comment

  Master curmudgeon H.L. Mencken wrote, “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”   Mencken wrote this knowing that, as societies go, ours is a beacon of higher thought and inquiry. At the same time, he bemoaned “the virulence of the national appetite for bogus revelation.”   Which brings us to…

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Vision vs. blindness on health coverage

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 19, 2015Leave a comment

  When he noticed weird stuff floating in his right eye, he didn’t blink. He called an eye doctor.   The next day, 24 hours after the abnormality introduced itself, he had eye surgery – a vitrectomy — that very likely spared him the loss of sight in that eye from a detached retina.   If…

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