YELPINGNINNY'S BLOG
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A Dialogue about Healthcare Reform, Part I
- Posted on 07.30.09
So many scary things are being said right now about the state of the American healthcare system.
Extremists on one side would have us believe if we alter the healthcare program we have government pencil pushers will facelessly handle our health needs like damaged boxes at the post office. We will bear the burden of paying for the pricey bypass surgeries and liver transplants of obese diabetics and alcoholics who didn't bother to pay for their own insurance or take better care of themselves and welfare mothers with no regard for how to pay for their own families' needs because the government is always there to bail them out. Honest, hardworking, taxpaying citizens will be bumped to the back of the long line of entitled slackers expecting handouts and illegal immigrants fresh off their liquor store robberies and reckless expectant mothers looking for a free ticket to their 5th abortion.
On the other side extremists oversimplify the issue by making Big Insurance into the great...Read More -
First week on the job!... well, internship.
- Posted on 06.10.09
So today marks the one week anniversary of my video internship with Causecast which has marked a stark change of pace from my past life in film and reality television production.
I am going to keep my first blog short because I am a firm believer in keeping your mouth shut until you know what you are talking about, and still being so new in this world with so much to learn all I can offer are my bland and really obvious comparisons of the two industries thus far. Everyone is tired of the old standup comic line: "White people butter their bread like this and black people butter their bread like this!" So I will refrain from doing the same with the shiv-you-in-the-neck, den of sin, hollywood film world vs. a bunch of attractive people trying to make other people's lives, the world in general, better place... that would be Causecast.
I will say however, that I am more affirmed than ever that it is easier to do something "cause worthy" than not: bring your mug to Starbuck's, was...Read More
