I am pretty wiped today, but it is a good wiped — aside from this doomful headache. I mixed a four-mile treadmill run (35:40) with weights (legs) and some medicine ball work. It was a good way to end what was the best workout week I’ve had in a couple of weeks.
iPod: a podcast of Radio Times featuring an interview with David Maraniss on his book, “Rome 1960: The Olympics that Change the World” and a podcast of Thomm Hartmann.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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Universal health care is long overdue in this country. I would prefer one payer and take the private insurance companies out of the equation but that will not happen with regressive Gopers foaming at the mouth. So I guess I will have to live with Obama\’s plan which does keep the private insurers part of the system. All the rich industrialized democracies have some form of universal health care except the USA. It\’s not just Canada and the UK. Truman proposed universal health care in 1947 but he was overruled by the GOP and the medical-industrial complex. If McCain wins, nothing will happen with health care and even if Obama wins, he will have to overcome GOP filibustering and the lobbying of the vast medical-industrial complex which will fight universal health care tooth and nail with the spleen thrown in for good measure. In that case, we will have to wait until the pain, anguish and agony of lack of health care grows so large that even the right wing filth can\’t ignore it. Oh wait, right wingers lack empathy as long as they have health insurance but once they lose their health insurance for any number of reasons they might start screaming, too.