The health "insurance" industry as it exists in this country needs to be abolished. We can't afford it and people are dying to keep it, and its wildly overpaid executives and shareholders, rich on the pain-wracked, debilitated bodies-and eventual corpses--of those denied healthcare for inability to pay. Or to put it in shorter terms, the American system amounts to Murder By Spreadsheet.

Oh, and according to today's WaPo, a "consensus" is forming that the solution to our problem is more of what's presently killing us, aka Mandatory Insurance for All. Putting us all on the spreadsheet, as it were, but not changing the system at all. Why is this a bad thing? Go read. Read more…

Shh. Follow me to the depths, through the secret tunnels under the Mighty Corrente Building, where after a long and torturous journey you will either reach Underground Froomkin or, possibly, suffer devourage. Here's where St. Froom' tells you what he really thinks, before it gets watered down for the delicate ears of Post readers:

What is it about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert that makes them so refreshing and attractive to a wide variety of viewers (including those so-important younger ones)? I would argue that, more than anything else, it is that they enthusiastically call bullshit. Read more…