(Today's update appears at the bottom of this essay)
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In the last couple of days I have heard both Elijah Cummings and President Obama at the Democratic Convention say that as part of the next great pragmatic jump forward, Democrats have evolved to the point where they can aver officially and unequivocally that "healthcare is a right" in their 2016 platform.
Our government sponsored exporting of violence is reaching new heights.
The Nation reports record weapon sales by the Obama administration under Secretary of State Kerry and Clinton.
I think by now the Unity meme is dead.
So where do Bernie people go?
Not to Trump.
Algebra was never my thing, but I did manage to pass the class.
Lately I started thinking about the "math" of Democratic shills. It goes something like this:
1 vote for Jill Stein = 1 vote for Donald Trump
Not voting = 1 vote for Donald Trump
OK. Given these two known variables (X = Z, Y = Z), it would also be true that:
1 vote for Hillary = 1 vote for Donald Trump
Simple enough.
However, what does 1 vote for Donald Trump = ??
Is Putin to blame? Trump? Guccifer?
Nope. Neither are to blame. The only one to blame is the DNC.
I'm too exhausted and sick from my Philly trip to write what what I wanted to say, so I said it instead in the following video posted at my YouTube channel:
is marked by the wrong presuppositions.
Take for instance Steven W. Thrasher's piece in the Guardian, "If Hillary Clinton loses in November, it won't be Bernie Sanders' fault." Both the piece and its author are sympathetic, or at least it can be said that I am convinced that Thrasher is one of the good guys. However...
The Lancet Psychiatry has released results of what is being called the first field study on the topic of transgender mental health: Removing transgender identity from the classification of mental disorders: a Mexican field study for ICD-11
The conceptualisation of transgender identity as a mental disorder has contributed to precarious legal status, human rights violations, and barriers to appropriate health care among transgender people. The proposed reconceptualisation of categories related to transgender identity in WHO's forthcoming International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-11 removes categories related to transgender identity from the classification of mental disorders, in part based on the idea that these conditions do not satisfy the definitional requirements of mental disorders. We aimed to determine whether distress and impairment, considered essential characteristics of mental disorders, could be explained by experiences of social rejection and violence rather than being inherent features of transgender identity, and to examine the applicability of other elements of the proposed ICD-11 diagnostic guidelines.
