ACLU Sues Catholic Hospital for Putting Religion over Medical Care

[hunter]

29. You really have no idea.

I'm in the eye of the hurricane. The leaves have been stripped off my trees, and the odds are always good that whenever the winds pick up again I'll end up on the streets as a crazy homeless person with walking pneumonia. I've been there before.

I don't have any security beyond friends and family, whom I'm very good at alienating when I'm at my worst.

Don't let any hatred of Catholics blind you to the larger horrors of U.S. medicine, mostly having to do with The Cult of Big Money and false Productivity.

The right wing has declared war on public school teachers and primary care medical providers. Working conditions in many communities are becoming intolerable. Working conditions in some communities have always been intolerable. (My first professional foray outside a medical or computer lab, I wanted to be a Welcome-Back-Kotter style science teacher. My own high school experience was so awful I quit high school. But I was just a shooting star teacher, quickly burnt out...)

I do maintain some degree of anonymity here on DU because I like to rant and let off steam and I don't want to embarrass my wife or kids or progressive co-conspirators, but my dinner table Erdős numbers numbers in the fields of California State education and medicine policy are low. I will say Jesuit trained Governor "Moonbeam" is currently the most competent State Governor in the U.S.A., much as Obama is among the most competent U.S.A. Presidents. Ever.

Don't mind me, I'm a token nut, and a small one at that.

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