Quote of the Day

| Wed Nov. 18, 2009 4:51 PM PST

From Barack Obama, asked what he thinks about Afghan president Hamid Karzai:

He has some strengths, but he has some weaknesses

Obama went on to say, basically, that he didn't care much about Karzai anyway: "I'm less concerned about any individual than I am with a government as a whole that is having difficulty providing basic services to its people."  Not exactly a warm, personal relationship there, is it?

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that covers a large fraction of all countries.

India, China, Pakistan, any African country, New Jersey, and so many others may be described as having "a government as a whole that is having difficulty providing basic services to its people."

California, Arizona,

California, Arizona, Washington DC, ...

I think you need a post on

I think you need a post on the mammography debate and how what seems to be good reality-based SCIENCE BASED medicine was twisted by feminist groups into proof of misogyny based medicine. And then you can talk about how Sebelius and other liberal or institution stalwarts (Arthur Caplan) pay to play and toe the line, ignoring, misconstruing the science and insisting that yes, this is misogyny based medicine.

Or you could be a patronizing, condescending wimp and pretend none of this is happening.

Debate it with Julia Whitty.

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