(np) car insurance

[alice wellintown]

Shit, Money, and the Word. I often wonder if non-Americans can truly
understand anything Thomas Pynchon writes about because his context is
so very American. The Nobel for Lit.  folks were on to something when
they leaked the bias they hold against American authors--a sort of
reverse of American Exceptionalism or a backlash against it. The Shit
of America spills out and over every damn, the word is American
Grammar from the Genesis, form given to chaos and made over, so in the
beginning there was the word and the word was Amerika. But money, as
the African woman in Toni Morrison's Nobel essay, the old, wise, blind
woman reminds us, is our our hands and language or the bird may be the
middle finger to those who would reduce language to a matter of life &
death.

 So I choose to read the bird as language and the woman as a practiced
writer. She is worried about how the language she dreams in, given to
her at birth, is handled, put into service, even withheld from her for
certain nefarious purposes.

 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-lecture.html




On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't really know the financial particulars of this whole debate
> but, to countries where universal healthcare is sort of a given, it's
> a bit like you guys finally added the letter "a" to your alphabet and
> now we can talk a bit more easily. I'm sure you'll sort the
> complicated bits out. If my testimony helps convince anyone: being
> able to go to a doctor when you're sick if totally f*cking sweet.
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:47 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Michael Bailey
>> <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> health care bill, that's what it's like, car insurance...
>>>
>>> you have to buy it, and it makes sense that you do because that way everybody has it
>>
>> You've got the right analogy, only the missing part is regulating the
>> Insurance companies (% of $ going to care vs admin & ads), and
>> competition (Public Option).  But this bill is only the start.  It
>> will expand to fix these missing parts.
>>
>